When Loved One’s Leave The Church

As humans, we have the gift of agency, which we view as a beautiful thing, until the people in our life choose to do things that we don't like. In this podcast episode, Jennifer Barnhart discusses how having a spouse and children leave the church has taught her how we can practice our agency and allow the people we love to practice their agency AND feel love and compassion even when their choices are scary and fill us with fear.  

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Doctrine & Covenants 12-13 / JSH 1:66-75: Part I

What do you do with the sections of the Doctrine and Covenants that repeat themselves? What do you do with the sections . . . . okay, you get it. Dr. Scott Esplin joins us and helps us understand the specific circumstances that surround the Knights, the Smiths, the Whitmers, and the Stoals (aka Stowells) and their desires for callings and personal revelation. Learn how we can also build the Kingdom of God--even if we don’t currently have a calling.

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Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World

In this episode, we got to speak with Patrick Mason about his new book, Restoration, which was published by Faith Matters Publishing. When we started the Faith Matters Publishing project, one of our goals was to explore what Restoration really means as the church moves into its third century, and that’s exactly what Patrick does in his book.

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