397: What Happens When Only One Kind of Latter-day Saint is Allowed to Exist in the Church

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series title: Mormon Faith Crisis—Progression, Not Pathology [Part III of III] In this episode Valerie welcomes back friend and researcher Jeff Strong for the third installment of their series exploring Jeff's research learning about the actual experiences of thousands of Latter-day Saints. The theme that came through? Massive amounts of TENSION. Today they go deeper into six distinct kinds of Latter-day Saints and highlight that one type, "the ...

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0:28.9	laterday struggles.com. Hello, everyone.
0:43.5	Welcome to Latter Day struggles.
0:45.0	This is your host, Valerie.
0:46.1	I am pleased and so excited to have Jeff Strong back with me here today.
0:50.9	We have such a lot in common in terms of the things that we care about and the time we
0:57.7	spend in and around the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints amongst our friends and loved ones,
1:02.7	just trying to better understand the hearts and the souls and the experiences of the beautiful
1:08.3	people that are making sense of their relationship with the LDS Church.
1:15.4	It matters to us a lot.
1:16.8	And this third episode of this series is going to be a deeper dive into that.
1:21.5	So first of all, hello, Jeff.
1:23.4	How are you today?
1:24.4	Hi, Valerie.
1:25.1	Great to be with you again.
1:26.7	Yes, it's so good to be with you.
1:28.2	Will you go ahead and give our audience just a little overview of how we spent our time last time?
1:36.3	And then we're going to jump into, I was going to say new content. It is new, but it's kind of a deeper
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