A Thoughtful Faith Podcast

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

Exciting News!

Hello A Thoughtful Faith Listeners! Sarah and I have an exciting announcement to make. We have been extremely honored by the privilege of launching and managing the A Thoughtful Faith Podcast. The past nine months …

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 …

047-048: Amy and Jeff – Are You a Member of the Mormon Club?

Jeff and Amy have a unique perspective of what it is like to be fully active, participating members of the church even though they aren’t members of the social club.  Infertility and the struggles that …

044-046: Dr. Jeremy Timothy on Depression, Neurology, and Theodicy

Dr. Jeremy Timothy MD is a Pediatric Neurologist for Cardon Children’s Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona. In this podcast Dr. Timothy shares how his Social Anxiety Disorder presented formative challenges throughout his life, and how …

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 …

Keep Coming Back

In a ward I once attended,  a Bishop stood in front of the opening exercises of priesthood and chastened those of us who were not dressed in white shirts. In a large meeting there were …

Embracing the Tension

I am the type of person who probably cares too much about what others think of me. If I donʼt check myself I have a tendency to stress about certain interactions I have had with …

The Gift of Doubt

  Almost a decade ago, I was in Normandy.  I was three months into my mission, and I was feeling good about myself—my French was decent, the branch seemed to like me, and my mission …