Dan Wotherspoon – Latter-day Faith

05_Women Outside the Garden: Healing from Generational Trauma

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In this remarkable discussion that is part of the “Women Outside the Garden” series hosted by Teri Petersen, Terri talks with Susannah Clarke about several topics, preeminent among them is “generational trauma.” Based on the science of epigenetics, each of us inherit DNA from our ancestors, and carried within it are propensities, temperament, fears, and more. Not […]

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227: A Reason For the Hope That Is in You

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Using as a launching pad the Western Christian liturgical calendar celebration of Epiphany (the day recognizing Jesus’s first revelation to Gentiles–in this case, the Magi), this episode is a discussion between LDF host and co-host Dan Wotherspoon and Mark Crego about the importance of being ready at all times and within any group to share our witness with others.

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04_Women Outside the Garden: Tonia Toole

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This powerful episode, the 4th in Terri Petersen’s series, “Women Outside the Garden,” features an interview she did with Tonia Toole, who is the founder of a non-profit organization, Holding Out Help, that assists individuals in leaving polygamous communities in Utah. In it, Tonia shares her personal journey, including her experience with cancer and how it

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226: Big-Tent Mormonism–How Can We Help Bring that About?

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Many Latter-day Saints long for a more inclusive church, including less of an emphasis on doctrines in favor of learning to listen better to each other and open our hearts to more diverse points of view. They are bored by and are unmoved by certainty. They want a deeper connection with the Divine (however they

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225: Hope Now!

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“Hope” is a term often associated with Christmas. “A thrill of hope, a weary world rejoices…” “The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.” But what is “hope”? And how is it tied to Jesus’s birth and life? Is hope an expectation of a particular outcome, or is it something

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03_Women Outside the Garden: Alyson Deussen and Susie Augenstein

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This episode is a far-ranging conversation between “Women Outside the Garden” host Terri Petersen and the co-hosts of the Meno-Moms podcast, Alyson Deussen and Susie Augenstein. In it, both Alyson and Susie share their LDS backgrounds and journeys toward wider views and deeper happiness. And how there are many things that they “just don’t care

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224: Valuing Myth

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In this episode, LDF host Dan Wotherspoon follows up on Episode 223 that focused on obstacles that we face when we encounter surprising or disturbing things about scripture , this time looking at its mythic elements. What is myth? What it its purpose? How can we appreciate it for its insights into life’s biggest questions

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223: What Do We Do with Scripture?

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During faith crises/shifts, one the most difficult things to renegotiate is our relationship with scripture. For most of our lives we have most likely thought that they portrayed an accurate history of things that happened in the past and that they were inspired by God in special ways, allowing them to portray the Divine will

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222: Thoughts in the Aftermath of “No Kings” Rallies

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In this short episode, Latter-day Faith host Dan Wotherspoon reflects on this week’s “No Kings” rallies and an idea that has begun to form in his mind that names something happening over the past decades (and specifically the last six years) that has led to the need for rallies of this type. Drawing very briefly

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“Women Outside the Garden”: Episode 1

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As we announced a couple of weeks ago, the Faith Journey Foundation and Latter-day Faith Podcast are launching a new series of episodes with the title, “Women Outside the Garden,” hosted by our wonderful friend and collaborator, Terri Petersen. This episode contains a brief introduction to the series, with Terri outlining what she will (and

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