377: When One's Soul has the Audacity to Grow, Right there in Church

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: A Two-Hundred Year Old Mirror: How the Faith Expansion Journey has Always Made Christian Leadership Sweat! [Episode II of II] In this thought-provoking episode, Valerie and guest Casey McFarland dive into part two of their series comparing the dynamics between orthodox leadership and progressive membership in both the early Christian church and in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They explore the discovery of the Gnostic Gospels a...

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0:42.6	Hey, everyone, welcome to Latter Day Struggle.
0:43.9	This is your host, Valerie.
0:46.7	I'm so excited to have you here with me again today.
0:48.0	Hello, Casey McFarland.
0:48.8	How are you, my friend?
0:49.6	Good.
0:50.4	Hi, again.
0:51.1	Hi.
0:58.6	I am so excited for all of you to join us as we do a part two of this little two-part series where Casey and I have been having a lot of fun comparing. I was going to say contrasting,
1:04.4	but I don't know that there's a lot of contrasting here going on. It's a lot of comparing
1:07.5	of modern day dynamics going on here in the Church of Jesus Christ
1:13.7	of Latter-day Saints and around the church. And also, if you were to go back to the early
1:18.2	Christian era at about the 200-year mark, coincidentally, at least for me it felt like a coincidence,
1:24.4	probably wasn't a coincidence, but it felt like a coincidence that all these things were happening and that we're not the first ones to be going through this. So if we're on a
1:31.3	faith journey here, we can just look back through history and see that we are just sort of part
1:39.2	of what it means to be human in the context of faith development. So I'm going to have Casey, if you would.
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