Conversations about the religious and spiritual life on the other side of fundamentalism
 
A Thoughtful Faith Podcast

124: Thomas Wirthlin McConkie: Navigating Mormon Faith Crisis

“What if we understood faith crisis as part of a natural cycle of spiritual growth, a breaking open to make room for new life and new faith?” So posits Thomas McConkie in his new book “Navigating Mormon Faith …

118-119: Mormonism through the eyes of Swedish women

Marion Fust Saeternes, Kristina Olergard Tenney and Wiktoria Heinz join me at A Thoughtful Faith to discuss the  differences between Swedish culture and Mormon culture and the invariable tension that creates.  Recorded during a week …

095: James Ott Speaks About Addiction, Word of Wisdom, Recovery, and Spirituality

Do you or does someone you love struggle with addiction? Despite our LDS doctrines and practices many Mormons struggle with the issue of addiction. In Part one of this interview James Ott explores addiction in …

094: Julie Lefgren on Being Single in the Church

The recognition of adult singles in the LDS Church is usually a footnote buried in the dominate family rhetoric of Mormon culture, and yet it is estimated that 30% of Mormons are single.  Julie Lefgren …

083-084: Ganesh Cherian – A Former Bishop’s Doctrinal Dilemmas

In January of 2014, former New Zealand Bishop, Ganesh Cherian posted a heart-wrenching blog at KiwiMormon called ‘A Former Bishop’s Doctrinal Dilemmas‘.  This was on the heels of the first of the series of LDS.org …

066: George Handley on Environmentalism and Mormonism

Jay Griffith writes: My friend Mitch called me a while back in frustration with the air pollution along the Wasatch Front. It was really bad at the time and he was concerned for the health …

055-059: Terryl Givens

Terryl Givens did graduate work at Cornell University in Intellectual History and UNC Chapel Hill where he received his PhD in Comparative Literature. He holds the James A. Bostwick chair of English, and is Professor …

Prayer Beads

This past December I read an amazing book called ‘The Mermaid Chair’. I loved this book because of the depth of the story. The story of the main character touched me deeply but the story …

On doubt

[large portions of this post were cribbed with some adaptations from my personal blog] I searched for “doubt is” in the BYU General Conference Corpus, and this is what I came up with: a negative …