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Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 12: Lived Experience This is the final episode of the 12 part churchistrue Faith Crisis and Reconstruction podcast series. We’re done with the historical issues. Everyone has their own list of what they love about the church and what it means for them to say the “church is […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 11: New Testament and Belief in God In this episode, I discuss New Testament scholarship that can be difficult to a traditional LDS testimony. We will analyze the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith and determine if it’s appropriate to separate these two concepts. I will give […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 10: Prophets, Revelation, Current Issues–LGBT, Female Equality In this episode, I discuss the definition and role of the prophet and compare how that fits with the more humanistic, metaphorical model I have of the Church. I also discuss the concept of revelation and how it fits with within […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 9: Polygamy and Late Nauvoo Doctrine In this episode, I discuss the aspects of polygamy that are challenging in an LDS faith crisis and touch on other issues related to late Nauvoo doctrine. We will focus primarily on Nauvoo polygamy related to Joseph Smith. According to LDS scholar […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 8: Book of Abraham and JST In this episode, I discuss apologetic aspects of the Book of Abraham (BoA) and Joseph Smith Translation. The LDS Gospel Topics Essay on the Book of Abraham provides background on the papyrus that Joseph Smith used to translate the Book of Abraham. […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 7: First Vision, Priesthood Restoration, LDS Exclusivity In this episode, I discuss aspects of the First Vision, Priesthood Restoration, LDS Exclusivity that could lead to faith crisis. There are four main accounts of the First Vision. Some LDS encounter faith crisis issues when discovering these multiple accounts or […]

Sorry for the fake episode. I’m putting this here as placeholder. I’ll finish this one last and replace this sometime in August. https://www.churchistrue.com/blog/book-of-mormon-wordprint-studies-2/ Last updated:Monday, June 29, 2020

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 5: Book of Mormon Translation In this episode, I discuss the aspects of Joseph Smith’s interactions with the Angel Moroni, obtaining the gold plates, and Book of Mormon translation that could lead to faith crisis. There are some wild aspects of this history that are difficult to reconcile […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series, Episode 4: Book of Mormon Content In this episode, I discuss the aspects of the Book of Mormon that could lead to faith crisis. There are many aspects of the Book of Mormon that show “humanistic and modern fingerprints”. However, the Book of Mormon content also is fertile ground […]

Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Series, Episode 3: Book of Mormon Evidence Welcome to Episode Three. This episode is one of three main episodes exploring the issues related to the Book of Mormon that moved me from literal belief to a view of accepting the Book of Mormon as sacred LDS scripture but not viewing it […]

In this episode, I explore topics like: fundamentalistic 19th century view of the Old Testament vs the view that most modern scholars (focusing on faithful scholars) hold Documentary Hypothesis OT Authorship issues LDS specific issues related to JST and Book of Mormon Prooftexting Evolution Science and how that might fit in with a faithful belief […]

Welcome to Episode 1: Intro from the Church is True Faith Crisis and Reconstruction Podcast Series. I am an active, faithful Latter-day Saint who went through faith crisis, deconstruction, and reconstruction over the time period 2004-2012, and now want to share the paradigm and intellectual framework I used to reconstruct into a vibrant and abundant […]