Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.

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

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

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

This class is here for a partner

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

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

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

packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can

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

visit laddarday struggles.com to learn more Day Struggles. This is Valerie, your host, and I have Nathan here. Hello, Nathan. Hi. How are you?

I'm wonderful. How are you? It is good. I'm good. It is good and I am good.

We are here today.

We're doing a part five of a six-part series on the growth of the church or the lack of growth of the church.

I'm going to read this big, fat article that we've been studying for the last several episodes uh the article is titled

the end of growth fading prospects for latter day saint expansion and nathan has been doing a

beautiful job reviewing this article and i've been throwing my two cents in from time to time

the essence of what this article is talking about is it's a breakdown of what went wrong.

Starting in about the mid-80s, a team of researchers were speculating that the Church of Jesus

Christ of Latter-day Saints was going to become the next Islam, which of course, we loved that

because we fancy ourselves being the stone cut out of the mountain.

What is it? I never say it right. What is it? The stone cut out of the mountain. What is it? I never say it right.

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