On Sunday, June 23, 2013, LDS leaders announced changes to the LDS missionary program, with most of the new focus directed to decreasing door-to-door contacting, …
Matters of the Heart 3: A New Story for Mormon Women
A NEW STORY FOR MORMON WOMEN By Joanna Brooks In this episode of Matters of the Heart, Joanna Brooks reads an excerpted version of her …
123–124: Emergence Christianity and Mormonism
It goes without saying that religion is intricately entwined with culture. And since this is so, when we find that the various ways of thinking …
122: Challenges in Making Church “Work” For Everyone
In this episode, sociologist Jim Smithson talks of the LDS Church and all of its programs and organizational systems as a vehicle for delivering the …
100–101: Mormon Missions
This two-part episode focuses on the unique experience of Mormon missions–their wonderful, powerful, light aspects, as well as those elements that can lead things to …