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449: Torn: A Book Written to Help Your Devout Loved One Understand You
Jul 6, 2026
1h 02m 56s
447: Why We Stay Small & Hide our Greatest Strengths from the World
Jun 29, 2026
1h 07m 52s
445: LDS Missionary Work and OCD Scrupulosity
Jun 22, 2026
1h 13m 45s
443: Addressing Real Mental Health Needs for the Full-time LDS Missionary
Jun 15, 2026
1h 04m 05s
441: The Politics of Jesus: Not Subtle, Not Silent, Not Neutral
Jun 8, 2026
51m 21s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 7/6/26 | 449: Torn: A Book Written to Help Your Devout Loved One Understand You | Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Torn: Why People We Love are Leaving the Church & What We Can Learn from Them [Part 1 of 3] In this three part series, Valerie is joined by Jeff Strong- friend, colleague, and author of the best-selling book Torn: Why People We Love are Leaving the Church & What We Can Learn from Them. In this opening episode, Jeff shares his personal experience as an LDS bishop and father at a crisis point in time when his missionary son disclosed that he was ... | 1h 02m 56s | ||||||
| 6/29/26 | 447: Why We Stay Small & Hide our Greatest Strengths from the World | Send us a Positive Review! In this episode, Valerie & colleague Jana Spangler are guests on Dan Wotherspoon's Latter Day Faith podcast where they talk about a little known version of the human shadow. Many of us know about the 'classic shadow'...you know...parts of ourselves that we are ashamed of and seek to hide. What about parts of ourselves that we also hide...even though they are our our strengths, our superpowers and even manifestations of our unique spiritual gifts &am... | 1h 07m 52s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | 445: LDS Missionary Work and OCD Scrupulosity | Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: "Latter Day Missionaries": A Mental Health Resource for LDS Missionaries & their Families [Part II of II] In this episode Dr. Bryson Ensign joins Valerie again to unpack OCD & scrupulosity in the LDS mission field. This episode first explores how Dr. Bryson covers OCD/scrupulosity in his "Mental Health Training Center". It also explores how this resource could be lifesaving tool for the missionary as well as a crucial resource for the parents o... | 1h 13m 45s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 | 443: Addressing Real Mental Health Needs for the Full-time LDS Missionary | Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: "Latter Day Missionaries": A Mental Health Resource for LDS Missionaries & their Families [Part I of II] Do you know anyone who experienced issues with anxiety, depression, homesickness, getting along with that annoying companion, or struggles with shame and perfectionism on their LDS mission? Was that you? Your child? If you have been touched in any way with the LDS mission experience and would like a resource that is worth its weight in gold, thi... | 1h 04m 05s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | 441: The Politics of Jesus: Not Subtle, Not Silent, Not Neutral✨ | politicsreligion+4 | — | — | — | Jesuspolitics+5 | — | 51m 21s | |
| 6/5/26 | BONUS EPISODE: Do you Want to Make a Difference? Join us!✨ | LDS faithpsychological resources+3 | — | Latter Day Struggles | — | LDSfaith expansion+3 | — | 55m 43s | |
| 6/1/26 | 439: Religious Silence is Complicity in Times of Social Unrest✨ | religionsocial unrest+3 | Nathan | Religion IS Political | — | religionsocial unrest+5 | — | 35m 11s | |
| 5/25/26 | 437: Whose Life is Worth Protecting? Politics & Religion Weight in 2026✨ | religionpolitics+3 | Nathan | — | — | religionpolitics+3 | — | 59m 39s | |
| 5/18/26 | 435: Why Some Religions Drag their Feet even when the Rest of Society is Ready to Embody More Love?✨ | religionpolitics+3 | Nathan | Religion IS Political | — | religionpolitics+5 | — | 52m 47s | |
| 5/11/26 | 433: On Churches of Legitimacy & Churches of Transformation✨ | church developmentmoral consequence+3 | Nathan | Religion IS Political | — | churcheslegitimacy+3 | — | 43m 43s | |
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| 5/4/26 | 431: LDS Strategic Political Engagement & the Upholding of Traditional Male Power Structures✨ | LDS political engagementtraditional male power structures+3 | Nathan | LDS | — | LDSpolitical engagement+3 | — | 34m 10s | |
| 5/2/26 | BONUS EPISODE: Tired of Feel Stuck, Angry & Alone?✨ | faith crisishealing+3 | — | Latter Day Struggles | — | faith crisishealing groups+3 | — | 38m 51s | |
| 4/27/26 | 429: Is the Mormon Church Politically Neutral?✨ | religionpolitics+4 | — | Mormon ChurchLDS | US | Mormon Churchpolitical neutrality+4 | — | 43m 05s | |
| 4/20/26 | 427: When Normal Growth Feels Like Rebellion✨ | normal growthrebellion+4 | — | LDS Church | — | normal growthrebellion+6 | — | 44m 44s | |
| 4/13/26 | 425: When LDS "Normal" isn't very Normal✨ | LDS Churchnormalcy+3 | CaseyWill | Pioneer Paradox PodcastLDS Church+1 | — | LDSnormal+5 | — | 1h 08m 25s | |
| 4/6/26 | 423: If the Ensign Peak Fund isn't Your Donation Destination of Choice...✨ | faith crisisLatter-day Saints+3 | Mark Crego | LDS church | — | faith journeyLDS+3 | — | 49m 14s | |
| 4/1/26 | BONUS EPISODE: Community Healing: How our Greatest Wounds & our Greatest Healing Happens through Human Relationship Audiobook✨ | community healinghuman relationships+3 | — | Latter Day StrugglesCommunity Healing: How our Greatest Wounds & our Greatest Healing Happens through Human Relationship | — | audiobookcommunity healing+3 | — | 5h 54m 29s | |
| 3/30/26 | 421: Why No Mixed-Gender Sunday School Presidencies? A Gender Equality Slippery-Slope Speculation✨ | gender equalityLDS news+4 | — | LDS | — | LDSgender equality+5 | — | 47m 38s | |
| 3/23/26 | 419: Formal Patriarchy & Inevitable Harm✨ | patriarchysexual abuse+3 | Nathan | LDS church | — | patriarchyLDS church+3 | — | 48m 25s | |
| 3/23/26 | BONUS EPISODE: Women in Ward Sunday School Presidencies: Progress, Breadcrumbs, or the “Near Enemy”?”✨ | women in leadershipSunday School+3 | — | ChurchWomen in Ward Sunday School Presidencies: Progress, Breadcrumbs, or the “Near Enemy”? | — | women in churchSunday School presidencies+3 | — | 1h 01m 27s | |
| 3/16/26 | 417: Confronting Men's Violence Against Women & Girls in the LDS Church✨ | men's violenceLDS Church+4 | — | Dialogue Foundation | — | LDSviolence against women+6 | — | 57m 50s | |
| 3/9/26 | 415: Presenting our Utah-Based Latter Day Struggles Faith Expansion Specialist✨ | faith expansionLatter Day Saints+3 | — | LDS | Utah | Latter Day SaintsUtah+3 | — | 56m 33s | |
| 3/4/26 | BONUS: How the World ACTUALLY Changes | Send us a Positive Review! We've heard it a thousand times...and probably have said it a few times ourselves. "The ________will never change." You fill in the blank..."The world will never change" or "the church will never change"...and yet they do. How does evolution actually happen? This "bonus episode" is a download that Val had over the weekend after asking herself why she was doing this platform. The answer to her question is what you will hear in this epis... | 1h 02m 31s | ||||||
| 3/2/26 | 413: Complexity of Clark Gilbert Call to the Q12 | Send us a Positive Review! In this episode Val is joined by Jana Riess, author and researcher of the LDS spectrum of experience and Jason Bergman, former BYU professor & faculty member. Together they discuss the many facets of the Clark Gilbert call to the Q12 of the LDS church. In this conversation Jason contrasts his experience on the BYU faculty both before and during Gilbert's leadership and candidly shares the painful and life altering impact Gilbert's fervor for ... | 1h 28m 32s | ||||||
| 2/23/26 | 411: Inaugural Live Fellowship Recording | Send us a Positive Review! Join us for this one-time-only recording of our FIRST Latter Day Struggles "Live Fellowship"! What is this, you ask? Valerie has decided to offer a gathering place for those on the LDS and surrounding faith expansion journey wanting consistent (2x/month!) connection with her to go deeper into the mind & heart expanding content on both the Monday and Friday tracks of the Latter Day Struggles podcast. In this opening gathering, Valerie explor... | 1h 04m 41s | ||||||
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