HeyJaredLatter Day Bridge Builders
Striving to build bridges between active Latter-day Saints (Mormons), those who have left the faith, and everyone in between.Join Mitch as he discusses different sides of church culture in a fair, unbiased and respectful way for all parties.This podcast is a place where…
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#048 -- Death and Grieving After Losing Faith in Mormonism (opens the original)
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Content note: this episode discusses death in detail, including infant and perinatal loss and a reference to suicide. Listener discretion advised. In this episode of Latter Day Bridge Builders, Mitch, Juliet, and Ashton sit down for one of their most personal conversations yet: death. What did they each believe happened after we die, back when they were fully believing? How has that changed, and did losing that belief change how they grieve? Juliet shares the experience of caring for her mother
#047 -- Inside the World's Strangest LDS Mission (Ashton's Mission Experience Part 2) (opens the original)
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Ashton returns for a deep, personal follow-up to our episode on his unique mission call to the Family and Church History Headquarters mission in Salt Lake, a mission staffed almost entirely by young elders with anxiety, autism, bipolar disorder, and other conditions. He opens up about the good: lifelong friendships, a moving story about scripture memorization, and discovering a long-lost aunt through Ancestry DNA. He also gets into the complicated, including the church's $60 million data deal wi
#046 -- An Ex-Mormon Therapist Answers Your Deconstruction Questions ft. Andy Newman (opens the original)
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Andy Newman, a licensed therapist, ex-Mormon, and creator behind @andynewmanlpc joins us to role-play through real scenarios we hear constantly in the ex-Mormon and nuanced-member space: coming out to a believing spouse, dressing/behaving differently while still going to church, family members who won't stop sending conference talks, and parents scared their kid is leaving the faith. We also get into the difference between a faith crisis, a faith transition, a faith expansion, and religious trau
#045 -- He Played Lucifer in the Temple. Then He Left the Church. (ft. Corbin Allred) (opens the original)
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He played Lucifer in the LDS temple endowment film for a decade. Then, after 43 years as a member, Corbin Allred left the LDS Church — and he hasn't necessarily been quiet about it. In this episode, actor and ER medical provider Corbin Allred joins Mitch in St. George, UT to talk about what it's like to be recognized as "the guy who played Satan," why he refuses to "leave it alone" after leaving the church, and the strange paradox of feeling spiritual confirmation to walk away from something he'
#044 -- "Everything Is Polygamy": A Historian on Mormonism's Founding Trauma w/ Linda Hamilton (opens the original)
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Historian, author of The Fourth Wife, and grad student Linda Hamilton joins Juliet for a deep dive into Mormon polygamy: how it actually worked, who it actually harmed, and why it's still baked into LDS theology today. They cover the poverty most plural wives lived in, the myth that polygamy was created to protect widows, the chaos of Nauvoo and Winter Quarters (including Joseph Smith's sealings to already-married women), the rise of Joseph Smith polygamy-denialism online, and why Linda can't ge
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