060: Carol Lynn Pearson—Walking with All of Us
The remarkable Carol Lynn Pearson talks with us about and reads her new children’s book, but also shares her wisdom and hopes and ways of being during this time of worldwide pandemic. Don’t miss it!
058–059: God Is Much Bigger Than You Think! — Grace, Mercy, Belonging in the Book of Mormon
The seed that Alma challenges the Zoramites (and us) to plant and nurture is not what we typically think it is. Find out what it is and why it’s the only one that can truly transform us.
057: At Last They are Saying It!—Women’s Voices in the Church
The title of this episode plays of the name of a new and wonderful podcast, At Last She Said It, co-hosted by Susan Hinckley and Cynthia Winward and produced with help from their wonderful friend Jeralee Renshaw. In it, Susan and Cynthia join LDF host Dan Wotherspoon to talk about women’s experiences in the church …
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056: Living Atonement
By titling this episode, “Living Atonement,” LDF host Dan Wotherspoon signals that the discussion herein focuses on Atonement as a process instead of “The Atonement” as an event, and how “at-one-ment” is a life stance for transformation rather than a name for something Jesus performed/did/completed that we somehow “take advantage of” should we “qualify” for …
Feeling It
Things began to really hit home when I listened to and read the transcript of a recording of a phone call with a woman being held in the Otay Mesa Detention Center very close to the California-Mexico border. During my junior high and high school years in Chula Vista, California, I lived less than fifteen …
055: Developing Your Own Spiritual Path
This episode focuses on one person’s journey though Mormonism that formed for him a wonderful foundation from which he learned to explore more deeply not only into its teachings but also those of eastern spirituality, especially through Hinduism and Kriya Yoga practices. It is designed to invite listeners into it as a way to discover …
054: Increasing Our Sense of “Belonging”
It is easy to say we “belong” to a group, even a church or a religious tradition, but what does that really mean? How many times have we said or thought to ourselves, “Sure, I belong,” but yet we’ve still kept one foot pointing toward the door in case this belonging thing starts getting really …
053: Expanding the Way We Pray, Part 2
In this second part of the discussion of prayer and expanding our repertoires of types of prayer practices, Latter-day Faith host Dan Wotherspoon along with JoDee Baird, Julie Keanaaina, and Marianne Pond first introduce the practice of “centering prayer” and discuss its various elements. The panel also discusses other wonderful stances that are especially helpful in spiritual lives, especially in …
052: Expanding the Way We Pray, Part 1
The practice of prayer is fundamental in most of the world’s faith traditions. And yet within most of these faiths, one finds that there are many forms this practice can take. Mormonism, still less than 200 years old, hasn’t yet developed names and clear ways of referencing types of prayers and stances before God that …
Mondays & Wednesdays: Lunches with Dan
Date and Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, noon Mountain Daylight Time. Host: Dan Wotherspoon Participants: YOU! While we are all self-quarantining, why not have a standing lunch appointment to talk things Mormon, spiritual journeying, and whatever is on your mind? Dan will be hosting semi-weekly virtual lunches for anyone who’d like to join. Lunches will occur …