Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.

We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.

That's why Valerie has created two online self-paced classes to help.

The first is a couple's guide to faith crisis and expansion.

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a family's guide to mixed faith parenting. This class offers tools to help parents develop

greater harmony and understanding when belief differences arise within our families. Both classes are

packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can

give you hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this,

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Hello. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles.

You are listening to a bunch of special little mini episodes where I am reading just for a few minutes at a time.

A string of Carolyn Pearson's poetry featuring her ongoing study and teachings to us about our relationship with the feminine divine. Okay, here's another handful of poems. Here we go. This one is

called Jesus Remembered. I am imagining this morning after my amen in his name, that when our mother helped Jesus

prepare for his 33-year mission into the earth's wilderness, she laid a hand on his heart

and said, Don't forget this. Of the many people you will teach and bless and heal, pay special

attention to the ones who look like me.

Things have gone awire, as we knew they might, and many are badly used,

especially your sisters who are seen as property and positioned five feet lower in the temple than the men,

and are kept from the scriptures and from speaking and are subordinate everywhere.

And, oh, the daily prayers your father hears from our dear Jewish boys, praised be God that he has not created me a woman.

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