Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Former football player turned artist turned ex-artist turned ex-Mormon podcaster — meet Selu Alofipo, and raise your consciousness.  Whatever that is.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What is the most important thing ever? This is, of course.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Can both Karma and Justice co-exist in the mind of an ex-mormon podcasting coffee-drinking betrayal (of sorts)? We wrap up this 8-part series with a funny experience from Tom.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Originally published in July 2015, the performs and smacks down Glenn’s goofy screenplay.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Originally published in July 2015, the performs and smacks down Glenn’s goofy screenplay.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What does astrology have to teach us about justice and karma? Glenn sits down with astrologer Eric Meyers to discuss.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile One of our best episodes ever.  First published in July 2014, this may be the very first word-for-word, pick-it-apart Infant Smackdown. In 1976, our favorite LDS Apostle, Boyd K. Packer gave a talk in priesthood session “To Young Men Only” that was not subsequently published in the Ensign the following month, nor can it be found as a conference talk on LDS....

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Filmmaker Brent Bokovoy wants to make a movie about Boyd K. Packer’s infamous “Little Factories” talk. Today Glenn sits down with Brent to discuss his film. We also talk about Mark E Petersen’s steps to avoiding masturbation, whether or not we actually “choose” what we believe, and a whole bunch of other goodies. Enjoy! Check out Brent’ s Kickstarter campai...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile How much of a problem is the Problem of Evil when it comes to justice and karma? How much do these views about the world impact our experience of the world?

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Kristy Johnson has a few things to say about justice, karma and forgiveness.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Is the world completely devoid of justice? At least one listener thinks so. What can we learn about justice and karma from Kristy Johnson’s 2019 documentary No Crime in Sin?

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Pushing pause on the Justice and Karma series to reflect on what is currently going on in the world that we are each a significantly insignificant piece of.   Love is Still the Answer (Jason Mraz) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc2BK09eKhk

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn and Tom discuss Neorosurgeon Eben Alexander’s Near Death Experience a way to better understand justice and karma.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tom really hates it when bad people get away with doing bad things. It almost makes him wish there was an afterlife, just so the bad guys can be punished. But what about Karma? Is there any evidence for reincarnation — like maybe children who remember previous lives? What about near death experiences — is there anything at all waiting for us after death? To...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tom just hates it when good things happen to bad people — maybe you can relate.  Will there ever be justice in this life?  What about the idea of Karma?  Rank McBaddon, Faith Detective, is on the case.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn, John, Bob, Randy and Mike discuss finish up this 5-part series on McConkie’s 7 Deadly Heresies.  We may not have covered everything perfectly.  But good news.  We don’t have to be perfect.  Pass it on.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn, John, Bob, Randy and Mike discuss #5 and #6 of McConkie’s deadly heresies.  Namely, that people can progress from kingdom to kingdom in the eternities (#5) and that Adam is our God, the father of our spiritual and physical bodies, who traveled to earth from another planet (#6.)  It’s a fun discussion that also explores the historical influenced on th...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Have you ever thought that getting married/sealed in the temple guarantees your salvation?  WRONG!  What about the thought that baptisms for the dead give sinners a second chance at redemption?  WRONG AGAIN!  Don’t get complacent!  Don’t start thinking you are doing just fine!!  Don’t ever ever ever ever think that you don’t need the CHURCH or the BIG AND I...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Originally published April 22, 2018. Mike Tannehill makes his triumphant return to defend Bruce R. McConkie as Glenn, John, and Bob’s take on evolution; the 2nd of McConkie’s 7 Deadly Heresies.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile How deadly can a heresy be?  Listen in as Glenn, John, Bob, and Randy smack down some Bruce R. McConkie and figure it all out.  So that you don’t have to. The BYU Speeches (highly amended) transcript is here: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/bruce-r-mcconkie_seven-deadly-heresies/ The un-amended audio can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMLH6cs...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile The last frock in the Week of Tannehill series, this was originally published in March 2014.  Mike Tannehill joins us once again for this unofficial follow-up to The Unintentional Racist to discuss the recent LDS.com essay on Noah’s Ark with Randy, Scott, Jake, Erica, and Glenn. Here is the link to the Meridian article in defense of Noah’s Ark . And here is...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Mike Tannehill (love him or hate him) is fighting the good fight against the Mormon church. Or at least against the influence of those liberal academic types trying to re-write church history — more specifically those authors of the recent essay Race and the Priesthood on LDS.org who would have us believe that church doctrine is nothing more than the “theor...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Bob, Jake, Glenn, and Matt talk to Mike Tannehill about the devil — and evil – and his whole devilish role in the Plan of Salvation — and a whole bunch of other stuff.  This episode was originally published in Oct 2014.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What does the “latter day” in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints actually mean?  When is the end of the world coming and what are the signs that it is near? This was the 14th episode of Infants on Thrones, originally published in April 2013, and it is a doozy.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn takes you back to the 4th episode of Infants on Thrones, originally published in September 2012.  It is a surprisingly good Radio Lab styled episode, centering on the narrative structure of “loss and restoration” found both in and out of the Mormon church.  Mike Tannehill also provides some criteria by which one may determine if a church is in apostas...