364: Death By a Thousand Cuts: Ordinary Mormon Trauma: Lindsay Hansen Park
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
Release Date: 06/12/2021
Accepting the Shadow and Light of the Church
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
The shadow and light of the church are a part of the same story and integrating the suffering and the healing that the church created is part of our necessary preparation for the next part of our journey. Acceptance of our past life in church with its blessings is a wholesome alternative to staying locked in the fight with what has been. In which case, there's no freedom to move on.
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381: The Reconstruction Series: Encountering Fear at the Threshold of Leaving
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
It’s one thing to know that letting go is possible and even necessary. But it’s another to stand at the threshold of leaving without feeling fear. Most of us will carry some fear. In this episode I discuss the DNA of Mormon fear of leaving the church.
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380: Letting the Church Go With Graciousness
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
In this episode: "Letting go needn't be truly feared. Letting go can become a friend to us, releasing us into the flow of an abundant and growthful life."
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379: The Beginning of the End: Gina Colvin
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
This episode opens up the last chapters of my time as host of A Thoughtful Faith Podcast. I aim to hang up the mic at the end of the 2022. The remainder of my time with the podcast will be devoted to faith reconstruction and exploring how to have a good church ending and an even better spiritual beginning.
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378: When the Church isn't Enough: Tali Aitofi
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
Some years ago, Tali Aitofi found Mormon podcasts and became hooked. But Tali isn't Mormon, he's Pentecostal. His faith journey has played out with the hum of Mormon faith crises in the background. Tali recently came out as gay; he left his family church, and is currently suffering from a life threatening illness. All of this has caused deep and searching questions. Tali joins me to talk about his life journey and how the Netflix series Midnight Mass spoke to his larger questions about church, God, Jesus, shame and forgiveness.
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377: Bright Spark: The Reconciliation of Artist Trevor Southey: A Conversation with Director Nathan Florence
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
Painter, now documentary film maker and producer Nathan Florence joins me to discuss ‘Bright Spark: The Reconcilation of Trevor Southey’ For eleven years, artist Nathan Florence documented Trevor Southey's life with his heart and with his lens in order to tell an unfolding story that ended in Trevor’s death in 2015. It’s an unusual documentary but nonetheless affecting because like a painting it constantly unfolds. The film is a soft place among the polarized voices of LDS folk in and out of the church, because it has no agenda beyond the story of art as an expression...
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376: Doing Our Inner Work: Jana Spangler
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
Utah based life coach, Jana Spangler, reflects on her extensive work with Mormons who are in the thick of deconstruction and reconstruction. She argues that being in healthy relationship with our bodies will yield precisely the wisdom we need to make critical life decisions.
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375: Let's Cancel Christmas! Nicola Petty
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
If you love Christmas, then this episode isn't for you.
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374: Trauma & Moral Injury in Mormonism: Dr. Sean Aaron
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
In this episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Sean Aaron joins me to discuss moral injury. Many coming from the LDS tradition have been taught to spiritually bypass our gut reactions to practices or doctrines, chalking our doubts up to our personal failings and faithlessness.
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373: The LDS Church's Response to Sexual Abuse: Neville Rochow QC
A Thoughtful Faith - Mormon / LDS
Neville Rochow joins me to discuss how child sexual abuse is managed legally and ecclesiastically in the LDS Church in light of the Royal Commissions of Inquiry.
info_outlineWe were made for tenderness, gentleness, openness, authenticity, vulnerability, compassion and caring. We are threaded through with the strands of genuine goodness. Our true selves, our inner landscapes are beautiful and potentiated for wholeness, fullness and love.
Mormon trauma is most profoundly felt into being culturally, or institutionally permitted to be our true selves but to live in this highly controlled world where we are treated as potentiated for evil and best kept managed, where the greatest virtue is obedience.
Mormon trauma is experienced as death by a thousand cuts, from the way that policy and doctrine is dropped to way we serve, teach and lead, to the way we are with each other and in our families, to the stories we tell about the world beyond Mormonism.
Lindsay Hansen Park joins me to discuss the ordinariness of Mormon trauma.