133: LDS Growth Not Exponential as Predicted. Why?

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: End of LDS Growth Analysis [Part I of VI] Val and Nathan are so excited to jump into a VERY FASCINATING six-part podcast mini-series analyzing a recently published journal article titled, “The End of Growth? Fading Prospects for Latter-day Saint Expansion”. In the mid 80’s a team of social scientists predicted that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was on track to become “The next Islam”, projecting that if the LDS church stayed on track...

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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.
1:03.3	Hey. Hey, everyone, welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is Valerie, and I have Nathan here by my side, and we are going to be starting today a series. And I'm really excited about this one. I have read and studied and tried to wrap
1:14.4	my brain around this big topic. And I'm happy to report that because of a lot of the other
1:20.8	collaborations that I'm doing that are keeping me really busy, Nathan graciously stepped in and
1:24.8	said he would kind of take over on a lot of the planning and
1:30.4	preparation and the outline of this particular topic. And so anyhow, I'm pretty excited to sort
1:36.5	of pass over a lot of the role of, I don't know, driving. I told him before we started, I said, hey, I'm, I'm in passenger
1:45.8	seat. You're in driver's seat. So anyhow, I want to sort of turn the mic over to Nathan to kind of
1:51.8	introduce the topic. And really, unless you have some other big secret plan that I'm not aware of,
1:58.1	maybe you can just jump in, Nathan. I do not have any big secret
2:01.6	plans. That is for sure. So we were made aware of a report. It's entitled The End of Growth with a
2:10.5	question mark, fading prospects for Latter-day Saint expansion. This was published in 2022. The primary author is David G. Stewart. He is a professor
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