Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile The TBM Whisperer tackles the top three stories from today on his Facebook “Trending News” feed.  Listen in to understand the news around Lena Dunham, Brittany Maynard, and the upcoming Grumpy Cat Christmas Movie from the TBM point of view.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What was that you said?  Trick or what?  Oh, a TREAT… alight, OK.  You want a standalone version of this song, huh?  Well, here you go.  Have fun!  (Love the costume, by the way.)

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Nick shares a listener essay about his love for Halloween and it’s connection to the most tragic moments in his life.  Glenn and Chelsea join him for a panel discussion.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn, Matt, Chelsea, and Nick review the LDS Church’s recent video on temple garments. Spoiler alert: they are TOTALLY ancient and COMPLETELY legit and just EXACTLY like religious vestments all over the world and NOT magic AT ALL — not even a teeny tiny bit.  Even if most Mormons believe they sorta are. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765661469/LDS-Chur...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Chelsea Shields Strayer walks the boys through what it means to be a feminist and an activist.  We hope this isn’t offensive in any way. Think of it more as the first awkward step in a journey to a better place. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile John Hamer joins Glenn, Jake, Matt, and Randy to discuss the Mormon Church’s recent LDS.org essay “Plural Marriage in Kirtland and Nauvoo.” https://www.lds.org/topics/plural-marriage-in-kirtland-and-nauvoo?lang=eng

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Part 2 of the conversation between team Atheist (Randy, Jimmy, and Scott) and team Jesus (Mike and David), to discuss the Problem of Evil.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Randy is joined by his older brother Jimmy and fellow infant Scott to get to know Mike and David, two post-Mormon Christians who explain how they deal with the problem of evil as believing Christians.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Bob, Jake, Glenn, and Matt talk to Mike Tannehill about the devil — and evil – and his whole role in the Plan of Salvation — and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn, Matt and Randy talk about spooky Hell Houses, creepy mormon fear tactics, and a bunch of other devil kind of stuff.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Listen in as Seb — our good friend from across the pond — knocks it out of the park again…. or whatever the equivalent is in Cricket. Take a listen, or watch it here on youtube: http://youtu.be/MXG-aeeBfPo

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In this follow-up discussion, Chelsea responds to Matthew’s listener essay “Cultural Relativism Can Bite Me.”  Bob, Glenn, and Scott fill out the panel.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tom, Jake, Chelsea, Bob, and Glenn talk to Doug about his listener essay: “Nostalgia for Bloomington” and go on all kinds of interesting (just for the sake of self-congratulations let’s just go with “interesting”) tangents.  Like: how to tell the difference between culture and doctrine, how to tell the difference between culture and “DEEP” doctrine (if ther...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Part 2 of our stroll down Mormon Expression memory lane.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In this two-part episode, the full quorum — Tom, Glenn, Randy, Bob, Matt, Scott, and Jake — take a very long stroll down memory lane and discuss their collective experiences with the Mormon Expression podcast — the good, the bad, and the ugly. But mostly the good.  Cuz once upon a time, we put as much energy, love, and passion into that podcast as we do int...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Ever wanted to know more about Matt?  Bob, Glenn, and Randy give Matt his very own PPI: Personal Priesthood Interview, Infant Style.   (Not to be confused with our upcoming seventeen part series: Personal Infant Speaking Segments, or PISS).

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matthew Vernon provides a listener response to Chelsea Shields Strayer’s recent Placebo Effect episodes and sets the stage — excuse me, constructs a “springboard” — for a future panel discussion on the value (or not) of Cultural Relativism. To listen to the Reasonable Doubts episode Matthew references, follow the link here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/reaso...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tom and Jake talk to Laura about her listener essay — her life-changing experience attending Priesthood Session of conference.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What does a prayer from Alison have to do with an Infant discussion with Matt, Glenn, Randy and Bob on infantile practical jokes?  This.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Part two of the conversation with Chelsea Shields Strayer about The Placebo Effect. Click here for the full lecture from Dr. Irving Kirsch. http://app2.capitalreach.com/esp1204/servlet/tc?cn=ircimh&c=10192&s=20491&e=18400&&mediaType=podiumVideo

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Chelsea Shields Strayer joins Glenn, Matt, and Scott for a discusion on The Placebo Effect. Part 1 covers Chelsea’s time as a cultural anthropologist in Ghana, why she got involved in Africa, and how her field work among the Ashanti changed the way she views her Mormon culture. We also discuss cultural relativism — when is it OK to judge a culture’s vices a...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn shares his favorite essay and teases an upcoming 2-part episode. “Shakespeare in the Bush” was written by Anthropologist Laura Bohannan in 1966 about the time she set out to study the Tiv of West Africa and was taught the true meaning of Hamlet. Text of the essay can be found here: Shakespeare in the Bush

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Randy joins human sexuality experts Kim and Jeremy to discuss Thayne’s listener essay, and his experience with the Mormon Church’s 12-step sex addiction recovery program.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What does the ALS Ice Bucket challenge and the LDS temple ceremony have in common? Ask Matt. He’ll tell ya.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Bob, Glenn, Jake, Randy, and Scott continue their review of THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM essay from LDS.org. This is part 2. (That’s what Pt. 2 means).