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Ep 525 – Culture vs. Doctrine
What is the difference between Mormon culture and “the gospel?” You don’t have to be anti-mormon-crusader-extraordinaire Jeremy Goff or privately censured General Aut...
Ep 523 – Smackdown: A Manual for Creating Atheists, Part 4 – RELATIVISM
What is relativism? Is it okay for anyone to believe anything that they want? Where do you draw the line between what is okay to critique and what is off limits? To...
Ep 522 – Smackdown: The Excommunication Rap
Excommunication is all about love, right? Listen in as Glenn, Tom, Matt, Delany Darko, and Chelsea Shields smack down a video blog from Anti-Mormon Crusader Extraordi...
Ep 521 – Smackdown: A Manual for Creating Atheists, Part 3
What is the socratic method? How can it be used effectively in conversations with people who believe things differently than you do? Glenn is joined by Brother Jake...
Ep 520 – Smackdown: A Manual for Creating Atheists, Part 2
What is faith? How is it different from hope? What is an atheist? How is that different from an agnostic? Glenn is joined by Delany Darco and Tom Perry to discuss ...
Ep 518 – Bill Reel: Why I left the Mormon Church and what I now think about God
Glenn sits down with fellow sorta-Mormon podcaster Bill Reel to talk about podcasting, the reasons why he eventually left the church, and what he now thinks about Life...
Ep 517 – A Manual for Creating Atheists: An Extended Smackdown Teaser
Last week, Infants on Thrones started the process of smacking down (or, probably “smacking-up” really) Peter Boghossian’s important and provocative book “A Manual for ...
Ep 515 – Movie Review: Church and State
Bob is joined by Logan to review the documentary Church & State about the legalization of gay marriage in Utah. They also come up with the definitive top 5-ish list of...
Ep 514 – Of Left and Right and Grumpy Old Men
Glenn and Bob are joined by one-time Mormon Stories Europe host Claudia Fox Reppen to discuss our meandering parallel journeys navigating politics, religion, and all t...
Ep 512 – No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners, P2
The four noble truths. The eightfold path. The dangers of dogmatism. The suffering caused by over-attachment to an impermanent world. This is the 2nd half of Glenn...
Ep 511 – No-Nonsense Buddhism for Beginners, P1
Want to find peace even in the face of suffering? Noah did. Listen in as Glenn interviews Noah Rasheta, of the Secular Buddhism podcast, about his new book “No-Nonse...
Ep 510 – Missionary Dream Log, P3
Glenn reads two more entries from his 1991 Mormon Missionary dream log, and also responds to an excellent listener comment providing Jungian analysis to a dream from p...
Ep 509 – Reviewing the HBO Documentary “Believer”
Glenn is joined by Bob and Doug to review the HBO Documentary Believer.
Ep 508 – Latter Day Infant Missionaries
What happens when two mormon missionaries unknowingly knock on Matt Long’s door? This episode. That’s what.
Ep 507 – Missionary Dream Log, P2
Glenn reads more entires from the missionary dream log that he kept as a Mormon Missionary from 1991-1993.
Ep 506 – Seven Deadly Heresies: The Smackdown, Part 5
Glenn, John, Bob, Randy and Mike discuss finish up this 5-part series on McConkie’s 7 Deadly Heresies. We may not have covered everything perfectly. But good news. ...
Ep 505 – Seven Deadly Heresies: The Smackdown, Part 4
Glenn, John, Bob, Randy and Mike discuss #5 and #6 of McConkie’s deadly heresies. Namely, that people can progress from kingdom to kingdom in the eternities (#5) and ...
Ep 504 – Missionary Dream Log, P1
Glenn reads two entires from the missionary dream log that he kept as a Mormon Missionary from 1991-1993.
Ep 503 – Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Truth – Part 2
Glenn, Tom, Bob, and Jake finish (for now…) their discussion of the infamous January 2017 “Truth” debate between Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris.
Ep 502 – Jordan Peterson, Sam Harris, and Truth – Part 1
What is truth? Is there a difference between truth and fact? And where can real truth be found after rejecting the one-time source of One-True-Truth that is the Morm...
Ep 501 – On Death and Truth and Why Some Stay
Glenn, Tom and Randy sit down with Christian Braithwaite, author of “Open Letter to Mormonism” and 2nd place winner in the most recent Listener Essay contest to discus...
Ep 500 – Missionary Discussions: The Smackdown, Part 1
Glenn is joined by two never-mo’s, Tim Bohen and Stephen Johnson of The Steady Trade Podcast, to begin smacking down the missionary discussions that Glenn used as a mi...
Ep 499 – Sabrina
Tom sits down with Jordan and Katie to talk about losing their teenage daughter Sabrina to suicide. Links: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 https...
Ep 498 – Shadow the Lamanite, P3
Glenn continues the next few chapters in his “Shadow the Lamanite” book project. Please take a few minutes to fill out the following survey to provide feedback and to...
Ep 497 – Contest Winners and (sorta) “Best Of” Minisodes of Yore
Glenn announces the winners of the May 2018 Listener Essay contest and then breathes new life into six fantastic Infant minisodes of the past.
Ep 496 – The Trouble with God, P2
Glenn and Randy finish their conversation with Chris Matheson about his new book, The Trouble with God, where the God of the Old Testament takes a satitical stroll thr...
Ep 495 – The Trouble with God, P1
Glenn and Randy sit down with Chris Matheson, author of “The Story of God: A Biblical Story of Love (and Hate)” and its follow-up “The Trouble with God: A Divine Comed...
Ep 494 – The Hoax
Yesterday, on May 17 2018, Jonathan Streeter leveraged news of a real meeting between leaders of the Mormon church and the NAACP to create a fake apology from the Mor...
Ep 493 – Listener Essay “An Open Letter to Mormonism” by Christian
Today’s listener essay comes from Christian. He titled it “An Open Letter to Mormonism.” We desire all to receive it. This is the final entry (#10) in the May 2018 L...
Ep 492 – Listener Essay “A Believing Jack-Mormon” by Bryan
Today’s listener essay comes from Bryan. He titled it “A Believing Jack-Mormon.” We desire all to receive it. This is #9 in the May 2018 Listener Essay Contest on In...