Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I am one of your

host for today, John Delinn. It is November 27th, 2023. We just finished

Thanksgiving weekend here in the United States and we are super excited to bring you today

Tic-talk sensation Brittany Hartley and we're going to be talking about nihilism and or meaninglessness and or

atheism and or agnosticism after a Mormon slash Christian faith crisis. That's what we're in store for. I am

joined by my partner in, as I like to say truth and righteousness.

Margie, hey,

hey, thanks for joining us.

I'm so happy to be here today.

Yeah, glad you're here.

And here is Brittany Harley, hey Brittany.

Hi everybody.

All the way from Boise, Idaho. That's right. You visited me last time so I came down this time.

You were turning the favor.

Brittany has a website called no-nonsense spirituality. How do you describe yourself in terms of the

services you offer to people? Yeah, so I'm an atheist spiritual director which I

know just right off the bat can be like a paradox and a conundrum which we'll talk about but I do a lot of

deconstruction and reconstruction work I have a master's degree in theology and

and I'm a certified spiritual director at this point.

Yeah, and one of the most common pieces of feedback I get, it's some combination of like,

why does so many Mormons if they lose their faith lose their

faith in God and Jesus that's kind of one flavor of what I've been hearing for a

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