122: On the LDS Faith Expansion Journey & the Painful Loss of Community

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Author, Evangelical theologian, and recently deceased Christian reformer Rachel Held Evans poignantly stated, "A lot of people think the hardest part about religious doubt is feeling isolated from God. It's not. At least in my experience, the hardest part about doubt is feeling isolated from your community." In this episode Valerie and Nathan share their thoughts and personal experiences about how faith expansion can be both a deeply sacred experience of per...

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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
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. Hey, everybody, welcome to Latter Day Struggles.
1:00.4	This is Valerie, and I have Nathan here with me.
1:02.8	Hello, Mr. Nathan.
1:03.8	How are you today?
1:05.0	I'm wonderful.
1:06.0	How are you?
1:07.0	Good.
1:08.0	It is so good to be with everybody today.
1:08.1	I promised, well, at least I was going to try to see if I could get Nathan. He's a busy dude. And I wanted to have him on with me to do this second episode in my conversation with you all about some of the things that I have learned about having just finished reading, searching for Sundays by Rachel Held Evans. and I will link that in the show notes as
1:29.4	well as have that on my Instagram stories along with a link for those of you who would like
1:33.2	to read this book which I highly recommend and last episode we talked or I talked I guess I
1:38.6	should say I talked a lot about some of her beautiful words and then my musings about the inevitability of cynicism inside
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