117: The Book of Mormon Was Never about LDS "Truth Claims" w/ Paul Toscano

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Real Talk about the Book of Mormon [Part III of IV] Join Valerie and special guest Paul Toscano in this part three on a series focusing on untangling some of the complexities of the Book of Mormon. Paul had a lot of fascinating ideas about this topic including 3 ways to look at the Book of Mormon: As a historical record (the most immature, irrelevant, and unhelpful approach)For its literary value (perhaps interesting but often not transformative...

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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.
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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
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0:37.9	give you hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this,
0:41.6	visit laddarday struggles.com to learn more. And now let's start the show.
1:15.1	Hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is Valerie, and I could not be more excited to have a special guest on the show with me today. Welcome, Paul Tuscano. How are you today, Paul? I'm just fine. Well, it is, it's just such an exciting thing for me to be able to visit with you.
1:18.5	A little background on why I'm so excited to talk to Paul. As I started my own faith journey, your work, Paul, has been so instrumental in helping me.
1:25.2	I have, I think I started with your book, the sacred
1:29.1	nature of dissent. And I loved it so much that when I started this podcast, many of you
1:35.0	who are listeners to this podcast and have listened all the way from the beginning, my episodes
1:39.4	15 through 20 are actually a deep dive into that one chapter of his book, The Sacred Nature of Dissent,
1:46.1	where I break down all... I think it's called, the Sanctity of Descent.
1:49.6	Ah, sanctity. Okay, you're right.
1:51.8	I think it is, and if people were looking for it, that's the title. But you're right,
1:56.0	it is about the sacred nature of dissent. Yes, I liked it. I was going to do one episode on it, and I liked it so much.
2:02.5	I broke it down into literally five episodes, because what you have to say in there, Paul,
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