393: Quiet Conflict: What the Research Reveals About Active LDS Members

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series title: Mormon Faith Crisis—Progression, Not Pathology [Part I of III] The data is rolling in and Wow…if you want to know what’s really on the hearts and minds of many active Latter-day Saints, this 3-part series is a GOLD MINE. Join Val and colleague Jeff Strong, prominent researcher on Mormon faith crisis as they begin to look at some of Jeff’s team’s large-scale surveys and in-depth interviews that detail how many active members quietly wrestle ...

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0:00.0	As we move into this season of giving, we invite you to support the healing work happening here at
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0:37.5	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Latterday Struggles. This is your host, Valerie. I am pleased and
0:53.2	delighted to have a good friend of mine here with me today. Hello, Jeff Strong. How are you today?
0:58.7	Valerie, I am fantastic, and I'm very excited to be with you, and I hope you and Nathan and your whole family are doing great.
1:05.5	Well, I am so excited to have you here. And before I introduce you all to Jeff, I want to just share
1:12.6	with you all. Jeff is near and dear to my heart. He's been such a supporter of the Latter Day
1:18.1	Struggles platform for a little while. And one of the reasons why he is near and dear to my heart
1:22.8	is because he is a former mission president, not very long ago actually, and right as we were
1:27.1	trying to get our son ready for his mission, which he is currently on, Nathan and I were juggling like, okay, how do we do this in a way that helps us sleep at night and is supportive of him and is supportive of all of these various thoughts and feelings and concerns that we're
1:45.3	having as we're on our own sort of complicated faith journey. And so we gave Jeff a call and
1:50.0	had some lovely conversations with him. And so first of all, before we do anything, Jeff,
1:54.6	thank you so much for that. That has been so helpful for me and Nathan. Yeah, I enjoyed those
1:59.4	conversations a lot. Me too, me too. And they have
2:03.3	really, really given me a good perspective on how to have this beautiful, complicated relationship with
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