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Latter-day Faith - March 27, 2024 01:04 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsAt the Relief Society's Anniversary Conference held March 17, 2024, Sister J. Anette Dennis made a statement that ignited a firestorm online, including on the LDS Church's own Instagram page. Here is the statement in question: “There is no other religious organization in the world, that I ...
173: On the Death of Nephi
Latter-day Faith - January 19, 2024 19:27 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThe Book of Mormon has become a fraught topic for many Latter-day Saints who are in the midst of a faith shift. Those who are no longer certain what to think about this foundational scripture will often not feel comfortable studying it. And this is especially a problem this year, as the Book of ...
172: The LDS Church Offers Resources for Those with Questions, Part 2
Latter-day Faith - January 04, 2024 23:49 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn mid-December 2003, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints added two new entries to the Gospel Topics section of its website. One addresses those Latter-day Saints who have questions or doubts, or who are undergoing a difficult faith journey. The other offers advice to those who love ...
171: The LDS Church Offers Resources for Those with Questions, Part 1
Latter-day Faith - January 04, 2024 23:39 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn mid-December 2003, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints added two new entries to the Gospel Topics section of its website. One addresses those Latter-day Saints who have questions or doubts, or who are undergoing a difficult faith journey. The other offers advice to those who love ...
168–170: Three Encore Christmas Episodes
Latter-day Faith - December 12, 2023 02:21 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsMerry Christmas, everyone! For this week's show, we are replaying three previous Latter-day Faith episodes related to Christmas! Episode 168 is an encore of the episode released last December, "Looking Fresh at the Creche," featuring Jody England Hansen. Episode 169 is an encore of the epis...
167: Thomas McConkie: At-One-Ment--Embodying the Fullness of Human-Divinity
Latter-day Faith - November 21, 2023 23:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThis episode celebrates Thomas McConkie's incredible new book, At-One-Ment--Embodying the Fullness of Human-Divinity, and dives into several of its topic areas that LDF Host Dan Wotherspoon chose as potentially helpful to this listening audience. In both a personal and descriptive tone they disc...
166: Wrestling with Grooming and Polygamy, Part 2
Latter-day Faith - October 27, 2023 18:49 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsNote: This two-part episode (Episode 166 is Part 2) is a departure from the usual focus of Latter-day Faith, which emphasizes teaching about and encouraging healthy faith development through introducing listeners to wise and powerful teachers in this area as well as to spiritual practices that c...
165: Wrestling with Grooming and Polygamy, Part 1
Latter-day Faith - October 27, 2023 01:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsNote: This two-part episode (Episode 166 is Part 2) is a departure from the usual focus of Latter-day Faith, which emphasizes teaching about and encouraging healthy faith development through introducing listeners to wise and powerful teachers in this area as well as to spiritual practices that c...
164: God is Loving; You are Beautiful
Latter-day Faith - October 05, 2023 21:12 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThis has been a tough week in Mormonism, with new rehearsals of old ideas entering the LDS universe that seem to portray God and we humans as less that loving and beautiful. In this environment, Latter-day Faith host Dan Wotherspoon shares his convictions, based on his own experiences, in an eff...
163: Abiding in Christ
Latter-day Faith - September 27, 2023 23:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIt is often difficult for Latter-day Saints to understand the distinction between Jesus and Christ as they are used in many other Christian traditions. They also struggle to understand how God can be considered a person if God doesn't have a distinct and tangible body. Mormons often speak of kno...
162: Practical and Spiritual Life Lessons from Elder James E. Talmage
Latter-day Faith - September 19, 2023 00:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThis episode features a wide ranging conversation between LDF host Dan Wotherspoon and his good friend and historian James Harris about the life and ministry of Elder James E. Talmage. Just before and then in the first few decades of the twentieth century (1862-1933), Elder Talmage served the Ch...
161: Enlivening Spiritual Metaphors and Symbols
Latter-day Faith - September 07, 2023 01:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThis episode features a terrific discussion between Erik Walters and LDS host Dan Wotherspoon on how we can mine for greater meaning and impact wonderful scriptural metaphors and symbols. Here they focus on Lehi's vision (and Nephi's additions) of the Tree of Life, Iron Rod, Great and Spacious B...
160: Worship
Latter-day Faith - August 18, 2023 00:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn this episode, Jana Riess and Kathryn Knight Sonntag join LDF host Dan Wotherspoon in talking about "worship." What is worship, or what does it mean to be in worship mode, and how do these differ from reverence, prayer, or gratitude? Do Latter-day Saint worship practices differ from those of o...
159: Seeing with More of Ourselves
Latter-day Faith - July 18, 2023 22:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsWe often use shortcuts in our daily interactions with people, events, and actions, simplifying what is actually far more complex. We decide this or that ahead of time, and we let that guide what we will focus on. We often label people in a certain way based upon some previous experiences with th...
158: Abiding, Not Presiding
Latter-day Faith - July 03, 2023 23:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThe spiritual concept of "abiding" (in God and God in us) is quite rich. It means to "be here with," and its Greek origins and scriptural usage also suggest other meanings such as "remain," "continue," "endure," "be present with," and more. But even as much as we can understand the concept of th...
157: Creating Loving and Affirming Communities
Latter-day Faith - June 21, 2023 00:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn this episode, we focus on ideas for building up spiritual communities that reflect unity, love, and acceptance. How might such become places in which everyone regardless of their theological positions, views about scripture or church strengths and weaknesses, or understandings and stances on ...
156: A Transgender Woman's Experience: Laurie Lee Hall
Latter-day Faith - June 15, 2023 23:29 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIt is Pride Month, and given the current and intense politicalization of the rights of transgender individuals, we are pleased to present here an encore of a conversation between Laurie Lee Hall and LDF host Dan Wotherspoon. Originally presented under the umbrella of how different people view Go...
155: Non-Violent Communication
Latter-day Faith - May 12, 2023 00:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIf we truly believe that all people in their essence are divine/good, why do we so often forget that in our interactions with others? Why do we make judgments that harm our relationships? Are there processes we can learn that will help us process things that happen without becoming defensive and...
154: Peacemakers Needed!: Do We Even Know How to Be One?
Latter-day Faith - April 27, 2023 23:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsPresident Russell M. Nelson's recent LDS General Conference talk, "Peacemakers Needed," focuses on the strong need for Latter-day Saints, and basically everyone else, to more actively strive for peace in our interactions in the world at large, and especially with each other personally. Noting th...
153: Insights from Jesus' Final Days
Latter-day Faith - April 07, 2023 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThis episode is the second in a series of conversations LDF host Dan Wotherspoon had with Annika Rau about New Testament events, with this one focusing on insights in the stories of what happened Thursday through Sunday of Holy Week. In it, they begin with the Last Supper (and also an event that...
152: Discernment Journeys, Part 2
Latter-day Faith - March 23, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThis episode features a conversation between LDF host Dan Wotherspoon and Abe Collier, who heads a small international aid NGO currently working in Ukraine. It is set up to be another in what will be a series of episodes on the way people discern what God/Life/the Universe seems to be calling th...
151: Discerning our Spiritual Path
Latter-day Faith - March 02, 2023 22:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratings"What do I want to be (or do) when I grow up?" Early on, our answers to such queries are the ones we pick up from our parents, wider family, friends, religious traditions, and important authority figures in our lives. If we are to have a truly fulfilling life, however, we must begin to find our ...
150: Viewing the Miracles of Jesus as Invitations
Latter-day Faith - February 16, 2023 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsFor some, the miracles of Jesus presented in the Gospels are problematic. Many question their veracity. Did these actually occur, or are they stories that sought to grab the attention of people living in a pre-industrial world? Perhaps "something" happened but surely there are better explanation...
149: Therapeutic and Spiritual Uses of Psilocybin
Latter-day Faith - February 10, 2023 00:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn this episode, therapist Julie Keanaaina speaks with LDF host Dan Wotherspoon about psilocybin, which has recently been legalized in Oregon for therapeutic uses, with many other states considering something similar. There have been many stories from studies of its use in television news magazi...
148: Michael Hicks--Musician, Artist, Teacher, Jesus Freak, Mormon
Latter-day Faith - January 23, 2023 20:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn this wonderful, wide-ranging interview, LDF host Dan Wotherspoon speaks with Michael Hicks, a recently retired professor of Music at BYU, about his life, and especially his growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 60s and 70s. During this period, Michael became very active in the Jesus...
147: The World of Jesus and Discovering His Central Message
Latter-day Faith - January 13, 2023 00:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsLatter-day Saints the world over are studying the New Testament this year. Much of value can be gleaned from following the Come Follow Me lessons and questions, but it falls quite short for those wanting to explore Jesus from wider perspectives. This episode, our first of 2023, teases a few o...
146: Looking Afresh at the Creche
Latter-day Faith - December 09, 2022 02:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsThe Creche (the Nativity scene) is a staple in many homes and public places during the Christmas season. We most likely were taught when we were young about each person depicted in the scene, learned that Jesus was born in a manger (hence the animals present in most creche's), and in all of that...
145: Spirituality without All the Religious Trappings
Latter-day Faith - November 15, 2022 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsWhen we struggle with previously held beliefs, various actions and teachings of authority figures, and/or religious teachings and practices that seem to not be loving--or even harmful--we can find ourselves wondering if all our work of pulling-apart and examining each element that has made up ou...
144: How our Bodies Experience and Hold Trauma: Understanding and Finding Healing, Part 2
Latter-day Faith - November 08, 2022 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn Part 2 of this very powerful two-part episode, Jana Spangler and Jody England Hansen join LDF host Dan Wotherspoon for a discussion of the close relationship between mental and spiritual trauma and our bodies. Much of what they offer is also true of physical trauma, but their primary focus is...
143: How Our Bodies Experience and Hold Trauma: Understanding and Finding Healing, Part 1
Latter-day Faith - November 03, 2022 22:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 120 ratingsIn this very powerful two-part episode, Jana Spangler and Jody England Hansen join LDF host Dan Wotherspoon for a discussion of the close relationship between mental and spiritual trauma and our bodies. Much of what they offer is also true for physical trauma, but their primary focus is on how t...
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