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435: Why Some Religions Drag their Feet even when the Rest of Society is Ready to Embody More Love?
May 18, 2026
52m 27s
433: On Churches of Legitimacy & Churches of Transformation
May 11, 2026
43m 23s
431: LDS Strategic Political Engagement & the Upholding of Traditional Male Power Structures
May 4, 2026
33m 38s
BONUS EPISODE: Tired of Feel Stuck, Angry & Alone?
May 2, 2026
38m 19s
429: Is the Mormon Church Politically Neutral?
Apr 27, 2026
42m 33s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/18/26 | 435: Why Some Religions Drag their Feet even when the Rest of Society is Ready to Embody More Love? | Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Religion IS Political [Part IV of VII] In this episode Val & Nathan continue to build a case that it is impossible for religious systems to be "neutral" on political issues. They explore how society evolves as religions & political systems engage in the dance of shaping and being shaped by one another and how in every era brave individuals lead out in inviting social change & can come from either spiritual realm as both politics & relig... | 52m 27s | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | 433: On Churches of Legitimacy & Churches of Transformation | Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Religion IS Political [Part III of VII] In this episode Val & Nathan go more "macro" and explain how churches (just like human beings and human civilizations) go through stages of development and that a church will choose its stances of "significant moral consequence" accordingly. In short, if a church is focused on earlier stage legitimacy--its all about preserving its favorite form(s) of dominator hierarchy. If the church has m... | 43m 23s | ||||||
| 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 | — | 33m 38s | |
| 5/2/26 | BONUS EPISODE: Tired of Feel Stuck, Angry & Alone?✨ | faith crisishealing+3 | — | Latter Day Struggles | — | faith crisishealing groups+3 | — | 38m 19s | |
| 4/27/26 | 429: Is the Mormon Church Politically Neutral?✨ | religionpolitics+4 | — | Mormon ChurchLDS | US | Mormon Churchpolitical neutrality+4 | — | 42m 33s | |
| 4/20/26 | 427: When Normal Growth Feels Like Rebellion✨ | normal growthrebellion+4 | — | LDS Church | — | normal growthrebellion+6 | — | 44m 12s | |
| 4/13/26 | 425: When LDS "Normal" isn't very Normal✨ | LDS Churchnormalcy+3 | CaseyWill | Pioneer Paradox PodcastLDS Church+1 | — | LDSnormal+5 | — | 1h 07m 53s | |
| 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 | — | 48m 42s | |
| 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 | |
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| 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 16s | ||||||
| 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 17s | ||||||
| 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 26s | ||||||
| 2/16/26 | 409: The Family Proclamation: Living Document or Unchanging Doctrine? | Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: What does the Family Proclamation Mean to You? [Episode II of II] This episode of Latter Day Struggles continues a two-part conversation about the LDS Church's Proclamation on the Family, examining the tension between claims of unchanging doctrine and the historical reality of doctrinal evolution. Petrey demonstrates through historical analysis that LDS teachings on gender, sexuality, marriage, and family have repeatedly changed over time—from posit... | 41m 57s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | 407: Is the Family Proclamation a Commentary or a Revelation? | Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: What does the Family Proclamation Mean to You? [Episode I of II] Welcome to this two-part series where Valerie welcomes returned guest scholar Taylor Petrey to discuss the LDS Church's Family Proclamation to the World as it reaches its 30th anniversary. The heart of the episode centers on Taylor's controversial Salt Lake Tribune opinion piece in September 2025 (linked below) arguing that The Family Proclamation should be understood as commentary... | 52m 52s | ||||||
| 2/2/26 | 405: Announcing: Biweekly LIVE Fellowship! More Healing & New Connection | Send us a Positive Review! Have you ever listened to a Latter Day Struggles episode and wanted nothing more than to talk about it but no one is around or would understand? Have you noticed that while your heart is growing faster than ever, your relationships are changing just as fast? Val has noticed that this podcast community has served not only to help you make sense of your LDS faith journey but also has created friendship networks that are life enriching in ways no one could... | 51m 22s | ||||||
| 1/26/26 | 403: A Tribute to our Former Bishop, Ken Glenn | Send us a Positive Review! In this episode Nathan & I pause to honor the impact that Ken Glenn had on us at this time of his early and tragic passing. In this episode we share many examples that prove that the traditionally believing [Ken] and the… shall we say...less traditionally believing…[us!] LDS can co-exist, when vulnerability, love, and curiosity are chosen over judgment. We love you Ken. Thank you for showing us Christ-like love even if you did not... | 48m 05s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | 401: A Response to Dallin Oaks' Desire for LDS Girls to Marry Younger | Send us a Positive Review! In this episode I respond to your requests to explore President Dallin Oaks' desire that LDS girls get married younger. As a bonus, I propose a counter-solution to. the current LDS mixed-faith marriage crisis that does not involve pressuring younger marriage (and its well-documented risk factors) on LDS young adults. Please share this episode if it resonates! Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and Overview 00:18 Valerie's Analysis of Early Marriage... | 1h 05m 00s | ||||||
| 1/12/26 | 399: This Classic Episode Put Latter Day Struggles on the Map of Faith Crisis Healing | Send us a Positive Review! With well over a million downloads since its first drop in March of 2022, the Latter Day Struggles podcast has established itself the place to find peace, healing, community, and words to describe your Latter-day Saint faith and trust crisis. It is where thousands have come to realize that deep within themselves is a True Self capable of mapping out their own spiritual journey and integrating their Latter-day Saint background into this journey on their own te... | 1h 11m 21s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 | 397: What Happens When Only One Kind of Latter-day Saint is Allowed to Exist in the Church | Send us a Positive Review! Series title: Mormon Faith Crisis—Progression, Not Pathology [Part III of III] In this episode Valerie welcomes back friend and researcher Jeff Strong for the third installment of their series exploring Jeff's research learning about the actual experiences of thousands of Latter-day Saints. The theme that came through? Massive amounts of TENSION. Today they go deeper into six distinct kinds of Latter-day Saints and highlight that one type, "the ... | 58m 51s | ||||||
| 1/2/26 | 396: UNLOCKED for All Listeners: Shifting the Focus from Abortion to Preventing Unwanted Pregnancy! | Send us a Positive Review! As we begin 2026 and the fourth year of the Latter Day Struggles Podcast, we wanted to say THANK YOU to ALL supporters of the podcast and platform! So please enjoy this Office Hours recording and a podcast episode that is one that is a must-listen! In this timely conversation Valerie tackles Elder Anderson's recent general conference talk on abortion. In one hour she goes from the macro issue of abortion itself and offers some thought-provoking concepts ... | 1h 00m 19s | ||||||
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