Embracing Your Role As a Working Mom

There is a cultural belief in the Church that the best place for a woman to be is in the home and that if she does anything else outside of the home, has any desire to do anything other than tend to home and children, then there is something wrong - wrong with her or wrong with her life situation. But desires are God-given and each woman’s path is as unique and different as there are women in this world. When all is said and done, the path a woman takes in her life is between her, her spouse, and Heavenly Father. Coach Shannon Resare shares valuable insight as to why allowing women to forge their own path is so important and why whatever decision a woman makes as to how her life looks allows room for abundance and possibility.

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Loving Without an Agenda

For today’s episode as June and Pride month come to a close, we brought on two really special guests, Ben Schilaty and Charlie Bird. Charlie and Ben are both gay Latter-day Saints as well as authors published by Deseret Book.  They host a podcast together called Questions from the Closet.In this conversation, Ben and Charlie share a little bit about their backgrounds and faith, what “pride” really represents and why it’s important to them, their thoughts on the process of coming out to faithful friends and family, and how leaders, friends, and loved ones can be effective allies to the LGBTQ community.

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Doctrine & Covenants 71-75: Part 1

What is grace, and what role does it play in our lives? This week’s guest, Dr. Brad Wilcox, answers these and other questions as he likens grace to a scholarship--it is a gift that keeps on giving if we use and accept it. Hank, John, and Brad discuss how to deal with the Ezra Booths of our day, making it ‘us against the adversary,’ rather than ‘us against them.’ Finally, they touch on how both Edward Partridge and Newel K. Whitney felt less than qualified for their callings as bishops. What can we do as members to help lighten the bishop’s load? 

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