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183: Buddhist Insights for Living Within or Without a Religious Tradition

In this wonderful podcast episode, LDF board member Terri Peterson interviews author and podcaster Noah Rasheta about Buddhist teachings that transcend faith boundaries and can help people live with greater clarity and equanimity whether they are formally religious or not. With Terri’s prompting, Noah shares his journey as a Latter-day Saint on through his introduction to Buddhism and how […]

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182: Creating a Fulfilling Life Outside of Formal Religious Structures

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

Most people who come to this podcast have likely, at some time in their life, wondered what their lives would be like were they to step away from Mormonism–and not just the church but, perhaps, everything else that one might call “religious” in nature. What if there is no God? What if there is no

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181: Temple Recommend Interviews, Worthiness, Self-Assessment

Podcasts, Uncategorized / By Dan Wotherspoon

In this wonderful conversation, Latter-day Faith board member Mark Crego talks with Chris Kimball, the author of Living on the Inside of the Edge: A Survival Guide (By Common Consent Press, 2023) about his experiences with the LDS temple recommend processes. Their focus is on the notion of “worthiness,” which most Latter-day Saints view as the purpose of the recommend

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180: Understanding Better Our Own and Others’ Motivations

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

This episode, co-hosted by Dan Wotherspoon and Terri Petersen, brings to the forefront once again the insights and helpful ideas in Jon Ogden‘s 2017 book, When Mormons Doubt: A Way to Save Relationships and Seek a Quality Life. Jon joins the hosts to discuss his approach to saving relationships through understanding the primary things that

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179: Experiences with Prayer

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

As someone is experiencing a shift of faith, it is very common to find a need to change their prayer practices. Likely, their view of God has changed, which leads to confusion about how to approach this new Being or Source. What used to be simple and connective no longer feels the same. Should they

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178: Life as a Divorced Mom in the LDS Church—One Woman’s Experience

2 Comments / Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

The internal wrestlings that come with a change from the “plan” someone had thought they’d follow the rest of her life (and in the eternities). The struggles the Church as an institution has in speaking to and including divorced women.

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177: Mercy as Taught in the Book of Mormon

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

If we are not careful, it is very easy to become lazy in our scripture studies–reading but not pausing long enough to really see and understand what it is saying. In the course of our years as Latter-day Saints, we generally have developed ready answers to what this or that passage is about, and we

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176: Grace as Taught in the Book of Mormon

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

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175b: What is Latter-day Faith Podcast? What Do Dan and Mark Really Think? Part 2

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

Latter-day Faith Podcast has just passed its 4th anniversary, and one of its early listeners who is now a great friend, Terri Petersen, suggested we need an interview show in which she’d ask questions of LDF host Dan Wotherspoon and his great friend and partner for the whole Latter-day Faith enterprise, Mark Crego. Terri reached out to many other

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175a: What is Latter-day Faith Podcast? What Do Dan and Mark Really Think? Part 1

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

Latter-day Faith Podcast has just passed its 4th anniversary, and one of its early listeners who is now a great friend, Terri Petersen, suggested we should do an interview show in which she’d ask questions of LDF host Dan Wotherspoon and his great friend and partner for the whole Latter-day Faith enterprise, Mark Crego. Terri

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