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Latter Day Struggles

419: Formal Patriarchy & Inevitable Harm

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

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

4.5859 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Straight Talk on Patriarchy and Harm [Part II of II] In this episode Val & Nathan lay out a several reasons why they feel that the LDS church is not able to address the strong correlation between its patriarchal structure, s*xual abuse & s*xual abuse under-reporting. The foundation of this struggle is a refusal to question the divinity of patriarchy...which leads to the patterns outlined in this episode. Please note--episodes of this natu...

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March 31st, you'll also receive access to Valerie's brand new meditation library, which won't

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be available for individual purchase. To learn more or reserve your spot, visit the link in today's show notes or go to

0:40.3

latterday struggles.com.

0:51.9

Hey, everybody.

0:52.7

Welcome to Latter Day Struggles.

0:54.0

This is Valerie and I'm Nathan. Hi, Nathan.

0:56.4

Hello. Good to be back.

0:57.5

Hi. We are here doing a part two of a two-part series where what we're doing today is a follow-up from last week's episode where I read the article confronting men's violence against women and girls in the Church

1:14.1

of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Suzanne E. Greco.

1:19.0

And I don't generally read an entire article, but I felt like this is one of those times

1:24.9

where I wanted to in preparation for this conversation that Nathan

1:29.9

and I are going to have right now with you in tackling this very challenging subject.

1:36.2

So Nathan, first of all, before we jump in to these points that we want to make today,

1:42.6

talk us through what was your experience in studying

1:46.1

Suzanne's talk as you think about your own journey in better understanding this kind of

1:53.6

painful topic. Yeah, I think when I think back to my own faith journey that there was the

2:00.4

sense when I was younger

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