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The Conquy Light of Myth in Circling Glue

Lead thou me on the night is dark and I am far from home.

Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, John DeLin. It is October 27th, 2015 and I'm very excited to have with us today a very special panel to discuss the recent release of the Mother in Heaven essay by the Church of the Church of the Church.

Jesus Christ of Letter Day Saints.

So last Friday I'm going to say, is that right ladies?

Yeah, last Friday so that would be October 23rd. The LDS Church released two essays. One called Mother in Heaven and the other called something to the effect of women in the priesthood.

And it's time to talk about them. And so we have assembled an all-star cast of amazing thoughtful heavyweight women and we are going to discuss it and I'm going to submit to their authority and just be a regular old panelist.

But let me introduce the panel. We're going to have with this first returning two more mysteries to actually lead this panel is the is the ever popular Jamie Hannes handy.

Jamie, what Jamie, why don't you introduce yourself just really briefly to our listeners for those who don't remember all your awesomeness from previous weeks.

I'm a woman. I'm a mom. I like to do it all.

Study science. You know, just normal.

All right, Jamie Hannes handy. And you will have you will have heard her on the Sears Stone essay discussion that we had.

You would have heard her on the Book of Mormon in the DNA episode. And most recently in the October 2015 general conference review. So welcome Jamie. Welcome back.

Thanks. We also have with us Natasha, Helfer Parker. Natasha, why don't you introduce yourself really quickly.

Okay, I'm a marriage and family therapist. I'm also certified sex therapist. I will see run a private practice here in which talk Kansas. I write for the Mormon therapist blog and host over at Mormon Mental Health Podcast.

I'm also the founder of the Mormon Mental Health Association, which I'm trying to plug.

Where you can find a therapist, a qualified Mormon therapist near you to help you with your concerns, right?

That's right. Or even if not near you, somebody who will be willing to work with you through video conferencing or that because it's kind of hard sometimes to find people where where we all are.

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