Brothers and Sisters

Send us Fan Mail Brief episode today. Paula and Larry are still in the South of Spain. Talk about unnecessary loss of life as the result of the draconian anti-abortion laws in Idaho and the Mormon Church tone deaf support of making the situation even worse for women. Talked about the demographic problem of losing women of child bearing age from the Mormon church and some of the factors that may be...

Send us Fan Mail Paula and Larry are still in the South of Spain. Talked about the odd shift of the Mormon church getting away from Mormon and tying to come across as the same as the evangelical churches with frequent mentions of Jesus now, a new development, display of crosses on Google maps and in Church material. Talked about the  uproar caused by Pete Hegseth leaving the Mormons off the list o...

Send us Fan Mail We catch up, Paula and Larry are still in the South of Spain. I recommend my recent read, Jack Holland's a Brief History of Misogyny. Misogyny is not what I thought, misogyny is actually quite a self hating philosophy denigrating all things physical and women happen to catch the blame. Plato and Aristotle were a couple of the thought leaders for misogyny, quite a surprise for...

Send us Fan Mail Paula and Larry are in the South of Spain on the Mediterranean. A lot of discussion about the long term impacts of parenteral alienation and how Mormon leadership uses their influence to encourage family alienation and how it really doesn't have to be that way. But high demand religions are going to grasp tightly for control as they lose relevance overall the extreme stances...

Send us Fan Mail Light discussion. Miracle of Forgiveness bashing. Talked about writing for a wider audience and how holding back on being explicit might be necessary.

Send us Fan Mail We discuss section 132 of the Canonical doctrinal text: the Doctrine and Covenants. Joseph tells Emma that she must accept plural marriage or be destroyed but she will still receive spousal support (he's not a monster after all). There are strong statements about eternal marriage and only happening on earth and not after death. Those not in eternal marriage will be ministerin...

Send us Fan Mail We read from the Miracle of Forgiveness, actually the Miracle of Anything Other Than Forgiveness. We go on a rant about the evil policy perpetuated by Kirton McConkey telling Bishops that they do not have to report child abuse, you absolutely do not have to report, when the moral action is to report child abuse to civil authorities.

Send us Fan Mail We discuss high cost of living in the US. We read from the Miracle of Forgiveness and note how the book is not about forgiveness but is a very dark view of humans and how sins are never restituted in Kimball's view of the life. Sad really and disappointing, we comment how glad we are to be away from believing Mormon leaders and their hateful world view but feel sad for our fr...

Send us Fan Mail Paula and Larry are home from Japan, Vietnam and Thailand trip. Had a nice visit with adopted Palestinian daughter Summer, in Washington State. Reviewed slides on reality vs. Mormon fantasy.

We discuss the week's Events Including the reaction of Larry's kids to the news of his resignation from the Mormon church. Hilarity ensues.

Discussed the decision to inform Larry's adult children about his resignation from the Mormon church. Gulp. Let the shoe fall where it may.

Deconstructing leaving Mormonism while Paula travels the world. Paula and Larry are about to fly out of Danang Vietnam and begin their Japan visit.

Talk about deconstructing high control organizations such as the Mormon church and the effects on our family, personal and even our sex lives.

Deconstructing Leaving the Mormon church, mundane issues, issues of sexuality, and family matters discussed.

Deconstructing leaving Mormonism all issues are on the table and game for discussion.

Deconstructing leaving Mormonism. All issues fair game for discussion.

Deconstructing leaving Mormonism. Let's discuss any and every issue. Trust me it's worth the hassle.

Deconstructing leaving Mormonism, freedom and bondage still to old messaging. All topics fair game for discussion.

Discussed healthcare while sister traveling in Da Nang Vietnam. Discussed the violence associated with the Mormon messaging regarding normal human sexual development and how it has personally affected us and still trying to deconstruct the effects of the violent Mormon messaging in regards sexuality. Also noted the silence from the Mormon church on actual sexual violence and how the old motivation...

Our second episode processing our faith crisis with the Mormon church and real life experience.

Our third episode processing our faith crisis with the Mormon church. Reconciling the kindness of our families and the members in our ward with the harsh teachings from Salt Lake City headquarters.

A brother and a sister in real life talk about their actual lived experience growing up Mormon and attempting to reconcile a faith crisis.

Our 5th episode. We talk about getting into that book that made us feel so bad growing up, The Miracle of Forgiveness. Is this a misleading title?

Our inaugural attempt at podcasting. We thought we had interesting stories and insights about growing up Mormon from the tail end of the baby boomers. Sister had a long career in high tech marketing and now a Hollywood screenwriter. Brother had a career in the Army and emergency medicine, now a healthcare statistician. Faith crisis motivated the podcast. Truth claims opined about. Benefits and har...