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 …
Imagine
By K. Ogden I was driving my three-year-old the other day and as usual, she sat in her car seat jabbering about all sorts of things like friends and SpongeBob and as usual, I mumbled …
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 …
Be Not Moved
When I was fifteen years old, my father lived in the studio apartment down the hall from my own Manhattan 2-bedroom which I shared with my mom. This is about as separated as a New …
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 …