Ashly Stone & Jeff Strong: Why People Leave the LDS Church… and Come Back
Come Back Podcast
Ashly Stone
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
"I just believe that God is found in the messiness. We just need to have faith that even when it makes no sense and nothing seems to be working, that it's in that very messiness that He will find us. That's how it's supposed to be. It's not supposed to be clean and linear. It's meandering and messy and crazy, and then He reaches through the fog of that, and He finds us."
00:00 Conformity and Agency
14:59 Family Faith Crisis Begins
30:35 Why People Step Away
48:00 Let Them Choose
51:37 Agency Changes Everything
01:03:20 Repairing Ruptures
01:10:06 Gatherers Not Sifters
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Come Back Team:
Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone
Editor: Cara Reed
Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson
Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze
Art Director: Jeremy Garcia
Production Director: Trent Wardwell
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | conformity is a big part of our culture. And even believing the right way is a big part of our |
| 0:07.5 | culture. So it's not really, really okay to believe, but you got to believe in a very specific |
| 0:14.0 | way. There's a narrow profile. And so this principle of agency and freedom and choosing and growing sometimes gets lost in that. |
| 0:23.7 | Somebody once said to me, we don't believe in agency. |
| 0:26.2 | We believe in agency wink, wink, right? |
| 0:34.1 | This is Ashley Stone, and you're listening to The Come Back Podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | I was sitting in sacrament meeting one Sunday and I heard the words I'd heard a thousand times before that we promised to always remember him. |
| 0:52.9 | And I thought, how do I always remember when life is so |
| 0:56.6 | loud? Kids, work, noise, everything that's pulling at me. And that is the moment that Memoir started. |
| 1:03.6 | Because I know what it's like to need a physical reminder. Years ago, I was in the hardest season of |
| 1:09.4 | my life and I found a pink Bible with a bookmark |
| 1:11.9 | inside of it and God used that simple, tangible thing to reach me when I needed him the most. |
| 1:17.4 | And I believe that he still does that. |
| 1:19.3 | He still speaks through what we can hold in our hands. |
| 1:22.9 | Memoir jewelry is that reminder. |
| 1:25.1 | Necklaces, rings, stuff for guys, stuff for women, stuff for kids, |
| 1:29.9 | made for anyone who wants to carry their faith with them. Every piece is built around one truth |
| 1:35.5 | that it is never too late and no one is too far gone to come back to Christ. So you can go to |
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| 1:45.6 | 13 years ago, I was a heroin addict. |
| 1:47.9 | I was in and out of jail, in and out of rehab, and I genuinely did not believe I would ever |
| 1:52.5 | have a normal life. |
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