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Latter Day Struggles

116: Harm Done in Oversimplifying the Book of Mormon w/ Taylor Petrey

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Mental Health

4.5859 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Real Talk about the Book of Mormon [Part II of IV] In this second of a four part series tackling various aspects of the Book of Mormon with a couple of prominent Mormon theologians, Valerie continues to talk to Taylor Petrey about the negative impact that many current members are experiencing around the overly simplistic narrative regarding the translation of the Book of Mormon, its origin, meaning, and literalness. Valerie contends that this compli...

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0:00.0

Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.

0:03.1

We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.

0:13.2

That's why Valerie has created two online self-paced classes to help.

0:17.3

The first is a couple's guide to faith crisis and expansion.

0:20.7

This class is here for a partner

0:21.9

or couple who want to navigate faith shifts with mutual respect and deeper connection. Next is

0:26.8

a family's guide to mixed faith parenting. This class offers tools to help parents develop

0:30.7

greater harmony and understanding when belief differences arise within our families. Both classes are

0:35.7

packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can give you

0:38.2

hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this, visit ladderday

0:42.3

struggles.com to learn more. And now let's start the show. Hello, everybody.

0:57.9

Welcome to Latter Day Struggles.

0:59.3

This is your host, Valerie.

1:00.6

And once again, I have Taylor Petrie here with me for another episode where we're going to go deeply into a lot of fantastic, very interesting conversation about the Book of Mormon and it's historicity

1:14.4

or it's non-historicity, something in between maybe. How are you today, Taylor?

1:19.2

Very good. Great to be back with you. Yes, it has been so fun. We had a conversation. So if you haven't

1:24.8

gone back, if you're just jumping on today jump back to

1:27.7

the episode right before this one because we in our last episode uh talked a lot about the vying sides

1:36.2

of this controversial issue of what is this thing the book of mormon it certainly whether

1:41.4

no matter what you think about the book of morn my goodness, it has done, it has been very, very influential, and it looms large, certainly for our church

1:50.7

historically, but actually it is one of the more well-known books out there worldwide historically.

1:57.1

It's a big deal. No matter what your feelings about it are, you can't argue that

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