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In this episode, Val and Jeff discuss the reasons why some LDS individuals feel they cannot grow within the church, based on insights from Jeff's book.

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Torn: Why People We Love are Leaving the Church & What We Can Learn from Them [Part III of III] In this final episode of this beautiful series featuring guest author Jeff Strong & his bestselling book Torn: Why People We Love are Leaving the Church & What We Can Learn from Them, Val & Jeff cover four "culture imbalances" that thousands of disaffiliated LDS offered as reasons they could not grow in the context of the LDS church. Listen i...

People in this episode

Host: Valerie Hamaker

Guest: Jeff Strong

Topics covered

• LDS church
• disaffiliation
• culture imbalances
• spirituality
• learning from others

Keywords

• LDS
• disaffiliated
• church
• culture
• spiritual growth
• Torn
• Jeff Strong

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Torn: Why People We Love are Leaving the Church & What We Can Learn from Them

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