Latter-day Retreat Video
A short video introducing our May, 2023 retreat. Please join us!
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153: Insights from Jesus’ Final Days
This 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 had happened
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152: Discernment Journeys, Part 2
This 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 them to do. in
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The Power Of Symbolism
At some point in our lives, we all bump into the problems inherent in literalism. In most cases, our educational journeys will offer well-tried reframes for us to think out of, frames that open space for an ever-widening understanding of the world. And often we also will find in our teachers and others around good
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151: Discerning our Spiritual Path
How do you know what it is you are called to do in this world? Listen in to Valerie Hamaker’s storhy!
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150: Viewing the Miracles of Jesus as Invitations
How might we look at Jesus’s miracles in new ways? What do we miss when we focus primarily on whether they actually happened or not?
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149: Therapeutic and Spiritual Uses of Psilocybin
In 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 magazines, newspapers, and other media formats, each affirming the positive effects
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148: Michael Hicks–Musician, Artist, Teacher, Jesus Freak, Mormon
In 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 movement of the time, which
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147: The World of Jesus and His Central Message
Latter-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 of these additional perspectives as
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146: Looking Afresh at the Creche
What comes up for us when we think of the Nativity scene (the creche)? Have our feelings become more complicated through the years? Are there fresh ways to it, ones that can animate our Christmas season this year?
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