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Mormon Matters - (Dan Wotherspoon ARCHIVE)

Mormon Matters was a weekly podcast that explored Mormon current events, pop culture, politics and spirituality. Dan retired from Mormon Matters Podcast in 2019 and now hosts a podcast called "Latter-day Faith" that can be found here: http://podcast.latterdayfaith.org/
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Now displaying: June, 2014
Jun 20, 2014
Mormon Matters is launching a new series that focuses on Latter-day Saints who, in addition to their Mormonism, are intimately familiar with another religion or philosophical tradition and whose spirituality has grown through that encounter. In this first episode of the series, Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon engages four LDS Freemasons: Patrick McLeary, Lorenzo (Lon) Tibbetts, Joe Swick, and George Miller. Why did they become Masons? Given the history of sometimes difficult relationship between Mormons and Masons, and also certain LDS cultural pressures that tell us that Mormonism should be able to serve all our spiritual and social needs, did they have any spiritual qualms about joining? What has their Mormonism alerted them to as they bring their LDS backgrounds into their Masonic experiences? And, even more pertinent to this series about the mutual enhancement that can occur when we bring two traditions into close encounter, what is it about the rituals, teachings, and social life of Freemasonry that enhances their LDS spiritual life, their understandings about Mormon rituals and Joseph Smith’s "project"? This is a marvelous discussion. It’s fascinating to learn a bit about Freemasonry, but even more wonderful to spend time with these brilliant, well-spoken, and deeply spiritual men. A great series kick-off!
Jun 13, 2014
June 11 brought news that Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, and John Dehlin, prominent public LDS voice through Mormon Stories and other podcasts and venues, have been called to face church disciplinary councils for "apostasy," as evidenced through their activism and public expressions of concern over various issues facing today's Mormonism. This episode is one in a series of short interviews of leading voices in online and public Mormonism conducted on June 12th by Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon.
Jun 13, 2014
June 11 brought news that Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, and John Dehlin, prominent public LDS voice through Mormon Stories and other podcasts and venues, have been called to face church disciplinary councils for "apostasy," as evidenced through their activism and public expressions of concern over various issues facing today's Mormonism. This episode is one in a series of short interviews of leading voices in online and public Mormonism conducted on June 12th by Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon.
Jun 12, 2014
June 11 brought news that Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, and John Dehlin, prominent public LDS voice through Mormon Stories and other podcasts and venues, have been called to face church disciplinary councils for "apostasy," as evidenced through their activism and public expressions of concern over various issues facing today's Mormonism. This episode is one in a series of short interviews of leading voices in online and public Mormonism conducted on June 12th by Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon.
Jun 12, 2014
June 11 brought news that Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, and John Dehlin, prominent public LDS voice through Mormon Stories and other podcasts and venues, have been called to face church disciplinary councils for "apostasy," as evidenced through their activism and public expressions of concern over various issues facing today's Mormonism. This episode is one in a series of short interviews of leading voices in online and public Mormonism conducted on June 12th by Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon.
Jun 12, 2014
June 11 brought news that Kate Kelly, founder of Ordain Women, and John Dehlin, prominent public LDS voice through Mormon Stories and other podcasts and venues, have been called to face church disciplinary councils for "apostasy," as evidenced through their activism and public expressions of concern over various issues facing today's Mormonism. This episode is one in a series of short interviews of leading voices in online and public Mormonism conducted on June 12th by Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon.
Jun 9, 2014
Mormons have some quite distinctive views of God, but do most Mormons realize it? In almost every theological area, ranging from the nature of God as Creator (creating "from nothing" or as organizer of eternal element?) to the four major "omnis"--omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipresent--Mormons have a take that is sometimes quite different from traditional Judeo-Christian theism. Yet, even though Mormon theology takes these angles, we often find them seemingly forgotten by those "in the pews." Other than when speaking about Mormonism's minority position among Christians that God has a tangible body, most Latter-day Saints sound more like mainstream Christians when speaking about God’s power and foreknowledge and the nature of eternity than they do Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, the Pratt brothers, and most Mormon theologians. Why? And would it be to their (and the wider community’s) benefit if we showed more consistency in the theological positions that we discuss? In this episode, panelists Charley Harrell, Jim McLachlan, and Lorie Winder Stromberg join Mormon Matters host Dan Wotherspoon for a big discussion of Mormonism’s God. The focus ends up on the subjects mentioned above, moving the topic of God’s physical embodiment, including being gendered, to a future discussion.
Jun 3, 2014
Many Mormon Matters listeners find their way to the podcast and other online communities and discussion groups because they recognize that they are experiencing some kind of "faith transition," a re-orienting in their relationships with life’s fundamental questions, powers, and values. Often, however, this transition feel to us much more like a crisis. Would things get any easier for us if we knew that this time of upheaval and process of trying to find new, firmer grounding was normal--even healthy? That this difficult journey toward new orientation isn’t exclusive to Latter-day Saints or even to just religious people, but to all human beings? With the 1981 publication of Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning, James W. Fowler and his team of researchers presented a road map of sorts for faith transitioning, a descriptive schema that places "faith" (our way of making sense of life, of engaging transcendent values and meaning) alongside other areas of human development (and their models). As they encounter this schema, many people undergoing faith transitions find hope that if they don't turn away from the difficulties and pain, they will emerge into new and richer perspectives and sense of peace in the face of all of life’s complexities. Guest hosted by Katie Langston, this episode features Mormon Matters’ usual host, Dan Wotherspoon, and social psychologist and therapist Marybeth Raynes describing the various stages that Fowler outlines, while also applying them to LDS faith transitioning, including their own life stories. The "stages of faith" model has been mentioned many times in past episodes. It’s about time they receive direct attention!
Jun 3, 2014
Many Mormon Matters listeners find their way to the podcast and other online communities and discussion groups because they recognize that they are experiencing some kind of "faith transition," a re-orienting in their relationships with life’s fundamental questions, powers, and values. Often, however, this transition feel to us much more like a crisis. Would things get any easier for us if we knew that this time of upheaval and process of trying to find new, firmer grounding was normal--even healthy? That this difficult journey toward new orientation isn’t exclusive to Latter-day Saints or even to just religious people, but to all human beings? With the 1981 publication of Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning, James W. Fowler and his team of researchers presented a road map of sorts for faith transitioning, a descriptive schema that places "faith" (our way of making sense of life, of engaging transcendent values and meaning) alongside other areas of human development (and their models). As they encounter this schema, many people undergoing faith transitions find hope that if they don't turn away from the difficulties and pain, they will emerge into new and richer perspectives and sense of peace in the face of all of life’s complexities. Guest hosted by Katie Langston, this episode features Mormon Matters’ usual host, Dan Wotherspoon, and social psychologist and therapist Marybeth Raynes describing the various stages that Fowler outlines, while also applying them to LDS faith transitioning, including their own life stories. The "stages of faith" model has been mentioned many times in past episodes. It’s about time they receive direct attention!
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