In this episode of the Women Outside the Garden series, host Terri Petersen is joined by Kimber Young Poon who explores the female face of God across cultures and traditions. Kimber shares her transformative encounter with the Lady Buddha (Guanyin) in Thailand, where seeing a massive female divine image made her realize that divinity can
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In this year celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, it’s important to understand the underpinning ideas in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. In today’s episode, we will be looking at the fascinating “Pre-Founding” Father, Roger Williams. He accomplished many things in his life but here we look
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In this wonderful episode of the “Women Outside the Garden” series, host Terri Petersen speaks with Megan Verno, a clinical mental health counselor in Utah who specializes in religious deconstruction and trauma recovery. In it, Megan shares her personal journey of growing up devoutly LDS, marrying in the temple, but also of eventually feeling suffocated
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LDF host Dan Wotherspoon’s father James Richard Wotherspoon died earlier this week. This encore episode is in honor of him and it consists of a Latter-day Faith interview he did with his dad in June 2021 (which was then a Father’s Day episode). Jim lived a remarkable life. Born blind (as was his brother, Robert), he achieved quite a
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This is a special episode exploring another of Carol Lynn Pearson’s many talents, her playwriting, focusing this time on her advocacy work for LGBT+ persons. This discussion features LDF host Dan Wotherspoon along with three persons involved with a new production of CLP’s play, Facing East, which is being staged in Salt Lake City in October,
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In this fascinating “Women Outside the Garden” episode, host Teri Petersen talks with Ashleigh Gentry, who writes the Substack, “Staying and Straying.” Ashleigh’s story is very interesting because she talks about something that many of us have never heard of: a form of OCD called “Retroactive Jealousy.” Together, she and Terri talk about some of
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With the recent passing of Carol Lynn Pearson, we are releasing this encore episode (originally released in March 2021) of a great discussion between Carol Lynn and Kathryn Knight Sonntag about the divine feminine and the need for “Mother.” The sound quality isn’t great due to a couple of issues we didn’t discover until after
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In this wonderful episode, the eighth in the LDF series, “Women Outside the Garden,” host Terri Petersen interviews and converses with Kim Hamblin, the founder of “Seeds of Life” life coaching services, which specializes in Mormon faith transitions as well assisting people of all spiritual backgrounds in figuring out their faith and allowing it to
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In this episode, LDF host Dan Wotherspoon chats with William Evans, whose spiritual path is unusual for a Latter-day Saint but one that has led him to an expansive vision of life in general along with greater peace than he has ever had. Born and raised as a grandson of LDS apostle, Richard L. Evans, who is perhaps
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NOTE: This episode features a discussion between Jody England Hansen and LDF host Dan Wotherspoon about deep themes in Christopher Nolan’s newly released film, The Odyssey. It contains a few minor spoilers, so if you haven’t yet seen the film, you may want to listen right now. If you have already seen it, you will
