344: Mormon Divorce: Les Butterfield
Not all Mormon marriages are doomed, but some are. When divorce happens acrimoniously it’s never a better time to observe the LDS church’s position on the wellbeing of women and children. The wife of a …
343: Radical Christian Youth Development: Cat McFedries
Cat McFedries joins me to talk about youth spiritual and religious formation and how some radical pastoring that she received as a young person might have put her off the church, but it didn’t put …
342: Polynesian Musings on White Supremacy: Maoputasi Young
In the wake of Joanna Brook’s book that starkly presented a case for Mormon white supremacy, Samoan Mormon, Tasi Young, BYU alumna and die-hard Cougars fan wrote to the Salt Lake Tribune asking for the …
341: A Community of Christ View of the Book of Mormon: Elray Henriksen
In the basic beliefs of Community of Christ The Book of Mormon is understood as follows: We affirm the Bible as the foundational scripture for the church. In addition, Community of Christ uses the Book …
340: Out from Under the Sacred Canopy: Prof. Rick Phillips
Professor Rick Phillips hails from Utah and has an impressive Mormon pedigree. He was raised under the sacred canopy of LDS belief and faith. And it was a good life, one that Rick remains nostalgic …
339: Mormon Women Claiming Power: Franzoni Thorley, Ross, Olsen Hemming
Exponent II Editor, Margaret Olsen Hemming says of the Exponent guest edition of Dialogue, “In this issue, we asked women to write about claiming power. We hoped that writers would think creatively about the idea …
338: Finding Freedom For the Mind: Luna Lindsey Corbden
The question as to whether or not Mormonism is a cult is a contentious one, but despite your definitions, one thing is for certain, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a high …
337: Mourning America’s Brokenness: The Rev. Dr Fatimah Salleh
Liberation theologian James Cone has said: “It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being a Christian nation.” So, what …
336: Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier: Ben Park
Is the USA a democracy, a nascent theocracy, or a mobocracy? Perhaps it’s all of those things and all at the same time. The Mormon Nauvoo experience gives us a strong sense of the unsettled …
335: Mormonism and White Supremacy: Joanna Brooks
In this much-needed volume that follows the evolution of LDS Church thought about race from its earliest beginnings to its contemporary constructions, Professor Brooks seeks to account for a religious tradition that has never made …