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Episode 175: Top 10 Reasons to Stay in the Church

Dec 6, 2011

Episode 175: Top 10 Reasons to Stay in the Church

John and Zilpha are joined by Amy and Patrick to about the top 10 reasons to stay in the Church.

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 35 Comments Tags: Bigotry, heaven, Hell, Missionaries, Moroni, Parenting, Pascal's Wager, Pioneers, sex, Truth, Utah

Episode 116: Pure Mormonism

Feb 22, 2011

Episode 116: Pure Mormonism

John Larsen is joined by Zilpha and Cody to discuss Rock Waterman’s views on “Pure Mormonism”.

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 67 Comments Tags: apostasy, Atheism, Book of Mormon, Buddhism, children, Cleon Skousen, Doctrine, Eastern Religion, God, Iraq, Joseph Smith, New Age, Paul Tuscano, polygamy, Repentance, Restoration, Revelation, The Church, The Spirit, Theology, Truth, War

Feb 1, 2011

Episode 108b: Seth and his father, Allen Part 2

Seth Leigh speaks with his father Allen Leigh about the Church and disbelief. Allen remains a believer while his son has left the Church.

Allen’s Website The Convergence of Science and Religion

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 48 Comments Tags: Adam, apologist, belief, Bible, Big Bang, Book of Mormon, CDC, contradiction, creation, Eve, Evolution, ex-Mormon, faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Lost Keys, Luminiferous aether, metaphor, Prophet, religion, Science, Scriptures, The Shelf, Tower of Babel, Truth

Feb 1, 2011

Episode 108a: Seth and his father, Allen Part 1

Seth Leigh speaks with his father Allen Leigh about the Church and disbelief. Allen remains a believer while his son has left the Church.

Allen’s Website The Convergence of Science and Religion

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 15 Comments Tags: Adam, apologist, belief, Bible, Big Bang, Book of Mormon, CDC, contradiction, creation, Eve, Evolution, ex-Mormon, faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Lost Keys, Luminiferous aether, metaphor, Prophet, religion, Science, Scriptures, The Shelf, Tower of Babel, Truth

Jan 20, 2011

Episode 105: Richard Packham

John Larsen and Richard Packham discuss the state of online criticism of the Church for the last 25 years.

Richard Packham’s Website

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 24 Comments Tags: Apologetics, apostasy, Book of Mormon, Brent Metcalfe, Christianity, exmormon.org, General Authorities, google, Graduate School, Hugh Nibley, Internet, IRR, James Strang, Kerry Shirts, lies, Missionaries, Printing Press, Question, Recovery From Mormonism (RFM), temple, The Brethren, Truth

Oct 19, 2010

Episode 89a: The 14 Fundamentals of Following a Prophet for Dummies Part 1

John, Glenn, George, Mike and Wes discuss the Ezra Taft Benson talk on following the prophet

14 Fundamentals of Following the Prophet (lds.org)

14 Fundamentals of Following the Prophet (lds-mormon.com)

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 43 Comments Tags: 1971, Adam-God, apologists, apostasy, Apostates, authority, Bible, Boyd Packer, Brigham Young, Bruce McConkie, BYU, Catholic, Christianity, Constitution, Correlation, cult, Evolution, Ezra Taft Benson, Fallacy, False Doctrine, Gordon Hinckley, Government, Holy Ghost, Jesus Christ, Joseph Fielding Smith, Logic, Morality, Obedience, Pearl of Great Price, Peter, Pope, Prayer, President, Pride, Prophecy, Prophet, Quorum of the Twelve, Reason, religion, Scripture, temple, Truth, Warren Jeffs, Wilford Woodruff, World

Sep 14, 2010

Episode 80: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses

In this episode John talks to “Joe” an ex-Jehovah’s Witness.

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 86 Comments Tags: 144000, 1914, Agnostic, Anointed, Bible, Birthday, Charles Taze Russell, Christmas, Cross, Demon, Devil, Disfellowship, doubt, family, Fawn Brodie, Friends, God Delusion, Halloween, Internet, Jesus, King James Bible, Millerite, Richard Dawkins, Satan, Shunning, Study, Truth, women

Sep 7, 2010

Episode 79b: Mormon Stories and Mormon Expression Part 2

2010 Live Reception and Recording

In this episode John Dehlin of Mormon Stories and John Larsen chat and take caller questions.

Find Mormon Stories at: http://mormonstories.org/

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 50 Comments Tags: ABC, apologists, Book of Mormon, Boyd Packer, buckley jeppson, Chad Hardy, church, Community of Christ, Craig Criddle, Daniel Peterson, Danites, ex-Mormon, excommunication, FAIR, FARMS, gay, Grant Palmer, Homosexuality, John Dehlin, John Hamer, Joseph Smith, Live, Men, Michael Quinn, Midgley Defense, Mike Tannehill, Mormonstories.org, podcast, prop-8, RLDS, staylds.org, Sunstone, temple, Thomas Monson, Truth, Unitarian Universalist, women, World News Tonight, Zilpha

Sep 7, 2010

Episode 79a: Mormon Stories and Mormon Expression Part 1

2010 Live Reception and Recording

In this episode John Dehlin of Mormon Stories and John Larsen chat and take caller questions.

Find Mormon Stories at: http://mormonstories.org/

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 48 Comments Tags: ABC, apologists, Book of Mormon, Boyd Packer, buckley jeppson, Chad Hardy, church, Community of Christ, Craig Criddle, Daniel Peterson, Danites, ex-Mormon, excommunication, FAIR, FARMS, gay, Grant Palmer, Homosexuality, John Dehlin, John Hamer, Joseph Smith, Live, Men, Michael Quinn, Midgley Defense, Mike Tannehill, Mormonstories.org, podcast, prop-8, RLDS, staylds.org, Sunstone, temple, Thomas Monson, Truth, Unitarian Universalist, women, World News Tonight, Zilpha

Jun 22, 2010

Episode 65a: The First Vision for Dummies Part 1

George, Mike, Glenn, join John Larsen to discuss the 4 major accounts of the First Vision.

Lost in a Shopping Mall
New Your Times Ideas & Trends; For Air Crash Detectives, Seeing Isn’t Believing

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 42 Comments Tags: 1832, 1838, 1842, 1877, Adam-God Doctrine, Alexander Campbell, Angelic Visitation, Angels, Audience, authority, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, Christianity, Christology, church, Council of Nicea, Creed, D&C 20, Dean Jesse, Devil, Ezra Taft Benson, Fredrick G. Williams, God, Gordon B. Hinckley, James 1:5, James Mulholland, Jehovah, Jesus, Joseph Smith, Joshua the Jewish Minister, Justin Martyr, Kirtland Letterbook, Larry King, Lecture at the Veil, Legend, Literal, Marlin Jensen, memorat, Memory, Methodist, Moroni, Myth, Omnipresent, Pillar of Fire, Primitive Church, Reformation, Revivals, Sin, temple, The Mormons, Times and Seasons, Trinity, True to the Faith, Truman G. Madsen, Truth, Vision, Warren Cowdrey, Wentworth Letter

Apr 13, 2010

Episode 52: Unsolicited Advice

John Larsen is joined by Zilpha, Nyal and Mike to read and discuss listener’s suggestions to the Church.

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By John Larsen Uncategorized 166 Comments Tags: Agency, Apologetics, Blacks, Books, Church Hand Book of Instruction, Community of Christ, Covenants, D&C 132, Dallin Oaks, Daniel Peterson, Dis-fellowship, family, Fast Offerings, Genealogy, Gordon Hinckley, Government, Grace, Helen Whitney, Homosexuality, Humanitarian, Iron Rod, Julie Beck, Liahona, marriage, Masturbation, Missionaries, Missionary Work, polygamy, priesthood, prop-8, Sacrament, Service, Teaching, temple, Temple work, Temples, The Brethren, The Fall, Theory of Evolution, Tithing Settlement, Truth, women, Works

Mar 16, 2010

Episode 47: Bob McCue

John Larsen is joined by Bridget, Zilpha, Tom, George and Jim to interview Bob McCue.

The original The Church is not True podcasts can be had here
Bob’s Website
Holland’s Talk: A Prayer for the Children
FAIR’s Bob McCue Page
FAIR’s Bob McCue Page priory to February 2010
Michael Shermer’s Book: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

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By John Larsen podcast 111 Comments Tags: Anger, Atheism, belief, Bishop, Book of Mormon, Canada, Change, Christianity, cognitive bias, counseling, creationism, death eel, empathy, Epistemology, evangelical, ex-Mormon, Ex-Mormon Conference, FAIR, family, God, Institution, Jeffery Holland, Kubler-Ross, marriage, Michael Shermer, mission, Multi-Level Marketing, narrative, pentecostalism, Recovery From Mormonism (RFM), religion, Repentance, Society, Spirit, Stages of Grief, Story, tithing, Truth

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