Scripture – Latter-day Faith

175b: What is Latter-day Faith Podcast? What Do Dan and Mark Really Think? Part 2

Latter-day Faith Podcast has just passed its 4th anniversary, and one of its early listeners who is now a great friend, Terri Petersen, suggested we need an interview show in which she’d ask questions of LDF host Dan Wotherspoon and his great friend and partner for the whole Latter-day Faith enterprise, Mark Crego. Terri reached out to many other […]

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What about the Book of Mormon?

Blog / By Mark Crego

Ok, so we’re on a faith journey with our Latter-day Saint tradition. Somewhere along the way, we’ve learned things that put to question what we once believed about the Book of Mormon. And this year, in our Sunday School classes, we must, once again, confront our beliefs. I was listening to a talk last week

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129: Experiencing Scripture Literally and Spiritually

Podcasts / By Mark Crego

Mark Crego and Kajsa Berlin-Kaufusi explore scripture from both a literary and spiritual perspective, while Dan is on vacation.

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Reading Scripture as a Spiritual Practice

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

So often we read scripture through lenses that don’t allow them to affect us all that much. We read for the stories depicted, perhaps the history. We will notice teachings and perhaps other things about the writers. But none of these ways place the emphasis on us and our transformation, or on insights that these

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098: Queer Mormon Theology

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

Mormonism’s theology is “queer” in the sense of peculiar, different, and unique in its connections between ideas and the particularity of spirit and matter, along with various practices. Blaire Ostler, in her new book Queer Mormon Theology: An Introduction (By Common Consent Press, 2021) plays on that meaning, while also laying out how in many

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040: Wrestling with The Book of Mormon

1 Comment / Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

The Book of Mormon occupies a key place in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and very much so in many persons’ faith journeys. For some, encounters with the book completely changed their lives, offered meaning and a sense of a God who is alive and still speaking. But for

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032: Wisdom Jesus

1 Comment / Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

A common refrain in Christianity today is someone claiming something like this: “There are those who think of Jesus is merely a great teacher of morals or wisdom. But we know he is actually the Son of God and Savior of the world!” It is a binary, either/or proposition intended to discourage people from exploring the deeper,

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030: Mormon Philosophy Simplified

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

Brittney Lowe Hartley has just published her long-awaited book, Mormon Philosophy Simplified: An Easy LDS Approach to Classic Philosophical Questions. In this episode, she joins Latter-day Faith host Dan Wotherspoon to discuss the book, its contents, and to dive into several of Mormonism’s interesting, and, to many, expansive and ennobling angles on questions such as the nature of existence itself,

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Reading Scripture the Ignatian Way

Blog / By Mark Crego

Ignatius of Loyola was much like many of us: he aspired to be great and significant in the world, but as luck would have it, he was injured, and spent much of a year in recovery. During this period, he had few books to read, so he spent his days reading scripture and daydreaming. He

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007: Rethinking Scripture

Podcasts / By Dan Wotherspoon

I am thrilled to have two wonderful scholars and friends, David Bokovoy and Margaret Toscano, join me this week for a discussion about scripture. So often while we are undergoing a shift of faith, tools and notions that were once extremely helpful and exciting can become stale to us, or even become a target of our scorn. Our

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