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Forget WWJD. WWHD?

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Instead of asking ourselves “What Would Jesus Do?”, today we’re asking: What Would Hayley Do? I’m responding to your submitted dilemmas, talking through how useful the WWJD framework actually is as a decision-making tool, and (for fun) applying that question to some Mormon internet apologists… which doesn’t exactly go great for them. Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account ⁠⁠here⁠ for two bonus episodes per month and more. For more Girlscamp content follow along on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. For ad inquiries please email girlscamppodcast@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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G-I-R-L-S-C-A-N-P-S-K-E-N-P-S-K-K-E-N-P-S-K-E-E-N-P-E-S-K-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L Jesus do? I am going to be telling you what

0:24.2

Haley would do, what I would do. W.W.H.D. instead of W.W.J.D. As a Mormon girl, I actually did not really grow up

0:34.3

with WWJD stuff. I know that's super popular in mainstream Christianity. There is

0:42.2

merch, there is jewelry, and that's like kind of a thing, right? What would Jesus do? You're supposed

0:47.9

to ask yourself that when you encounter dilemmas and questions in life. So I thought it would be fun to have you write in your questions,

0:57.5

dilemmas you're facing, and I will tell you not even necessarily what you should do, but simply

1:04.7

what I would do if I were you. The Mormon version of WWJD is CTR, choose the right. So when a Mormon child gets baptized at age

1:17.5

eight, at least in my era of being a Mormon child getting baptized, you would often get a

1:23.6

CTR ring or maybe a necklace. That was our acronym of choice as Mormons choose the right,

1:30.7

not the what would Jesus do. Though I do wonder if as Mormonism tries to adapt into mainstream

1:37.5

Christianity, it seems more and more. Maybe WWJD is more of a thing in Mormonism. I don't know. I did want to quickly look up where

1:47.0

this acronym even came from. The original source was actually from the 1890s. There was a

1:54.7

reverend named Charles Sheldon, and he coined this phrase for a series of sermons and his subsequent bestselling novel in his

2:03.5

steps. The book tells the story of people deciding to act only after asking what would Jesus do

2:09.5

in their situation. Then in the 1990s, a youth group leader named Janie Tinklenburg. Tinklenberg, wow, was a youth group leader at Calvary

2:21.7

Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan. They read this book. I'm not sure if that's a man or a woman,

2:27.6

Janie. They read this book and used the acronym to create cloth bracelets in the early 1990s, and this turned it into a widespread

2:37.1

popular movement. And maybe it's actually less popular now than it used to be if it had its

2:43.8

revival in the 1990s. But there's some fun little historical information about WWJD. We have a lot to get into. These submissions

2:53.7

really run the gamut, which is why I love doing submission episodes because we get to talk

2:59.6

about all sorts of things. We've got some religious questions. Of course, there are,

3:04.8

I feel like quite a few questions about relationship stuff, marriage, relationship

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