Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tom is joined by his brave and excellent wife to interview another couple, Neal & Naomi, and discuss some of the difficulties of living in a mixed faith marriage. Neal & Naomi’s podcast Unequally Yoked can be found here: http://unequally-yoked.net

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What’s worse than murder and rape? The only sin so powerful it punishes innocent children for the “sins” of their parents even if, you know, that doesn’t sound like Mormon Doctrine… In this episode, Bob, Matt, Randy, and Scott discuss the new policy changes from the Mormon Church that set apart homosexuality as a sin unlike any other. Children of same-sex m...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile The Infants will be conducting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit this upcoming Monday, Nov 9th, at 10:30pm ET. Go to the link below to send us questions, and log in with your reddit account on Monday to interact with the Infants. We will also be recording our behind the scenes commentary and responses to your questions, and publish that as a future episode...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Three years ago, the still-learning-how-to-walk Infants released an episode called FEAR. In as close to a RadioLab style as we could muster, we explored the world of ouija boards, evil spirits, night terrors, lucid dreaming, and a hodgepodge of other somewhat-fear-related topics. Some of that original episode was even pretty good. Today Matt and Glenn refle...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile John, Scott, Randy, Jake, and Matt Smack down Dan Peterson’s recent blog post about the doctrinal “thin gruel” the Community of Christ offers its members, and what it reveals about the myopia of the LDS view. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2015/10/dissatisfied-liberal-mormons-find-refuge-in-the-community-of-christ.html

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile The Infants review two movies about belief: Bill Mahr’s “Religulous” and Vikram Gandhi’s “Kumare.”

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tough weekend? Experiencing a little PCSD? (Post-Conference Stress Disorder) Allow newly anointed Ex-mo Meditation Guru Tom Perry to take you through a short relaxation exercise that should have you feeling better about the world in no time.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What would will the world look like if when everyone everywhere were is Mormon? Look no further than BYU campus living! In this episode, Bob, Glenn, Jake, Matt, and Randy smack down the BYU Honor Code.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Have you ever wanted to laugh during a prayer? Have you ever wondered what Glenn sounded like as a 19-year-old missionary full of missionary zeal (or at least full of something)? Have you ever wanted to hear Bob sing all about his faith crisis (or, even better, have you ever wanted to comment on Bob’s singing cred?) Well, if any of those describe your parti...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Do you love Women? Do you believe that Women should have equal rights guaranteed under the law? Did you know that the United States of America does not guarantee this in the US Constitution today? Forty years ago, long before Prop 8, the Mormon church used fear-based tactics and political pressure to block the ERA – the Equal Rights Amendment that congress...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In the 3rd installment of the ongoing series, Carl gets an apologetic visitor to his new apartment. To listen to the first episode of Carl the Casual Satanist, click here: http://infantsonthrones.com/carl-the-casual-satanist-episode-1-carl-throws-a-party/ To listen to the second, click here: http://infantsonthrones.com/carl-the-casual-satanist-episode-2-the...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What happens when the real Bigfoot meets a real Evil Spirit?

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tanner, a blogger at “Zelph on the Shelf” (great name, huh?) joins Jake, Matt, Randy and Scott to talk about End Times and Latter Days and Preppers and all that good stuff.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In this Froback Friday debut, the Infants discuss Randy’s awesome minisode “Homachnaphobia” — you know… where Randy compares his irrational fear of homosexuality to his irrational fear of spiders. As one does.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Infants on Thrones commemorates their three years of podcasting by talking about themselves for a change. Listen in and try to keep all eight voices straight as Bob, Glenn, Jake, John, Matt, Randy, Scott and Tom talk about minisodes, and pseudo-fame, and ideas for the future of the podcast, and nothing even possibly irreverent or offensive to anyone else in...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Have you ever wondered what John C. Bennett had to say about his time in Nauvoo, his excommunication from the church, or his relationship with Joseph Smith? Have you ever wanted to read all those testimonials about treasure digging and folk magic in “Mormonism Unvailed” but just found that old book too dense and long and daunting? Have you ever been interes...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Tom and Glenn are joined with Kim and Adam who are both therapists to discuss Jamie’s listener essay titled, “How our Marvelous Mormon Therapist saved our marriage.”

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Scott, Matt, and John discuss the importance of community with Micah, Nick, Alison, and Steve, who also discuss the motivation behind their website MormonSpectrum.org

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Little Apologists aren’t the only ones who can make kinda sorta gymnastic-type little apologies. In this special minisode, Glenn explains the reason for the appearance and sudden disappearance of last Sunday’s mysterious episode “The Little Apologist.”

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Glenn projects many of his Mormon-formed biases onto the One True Band: The Beatles, and compares his changing view of The Beatles to his changing view of The Mormon Church.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Jake geeks out over an exchange of blog posts between Baylor historian Philip Jenkins and Mormon apologist Bill Hamblin that gets at the heart of Book of Mormon apologetics. Hold on to your Scotch-taped glasses, folks–it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. Blogs referenced: Outliers and Iconoclasts How Consensus Changes Mormons and New World History Centrality of Herm...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Suffering from stone fatigue yet? Well… suffer no more (or suffer a lot more) as Jake, John, Matt, and Randy smack down the recent Mormon Ensign article “ Joseph the Seer .” ( Spoiler Alert: they actually all thought the article was pretty good) And if any of you are wondering “should I really listen to this episode?” John Hamer says yes.

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile In order to fill out the complete story of Joseph the Seer and his recently unveiled seer-stone, John, Glenn, Matt, Randy, and Jake dip into the rich historical record and read witness accounts of Joseph’s contemporaries, in a documentary minisode that “De-Romances the Stone.”

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile What if the emotions from Pixar’s “Inside Out” got together in a Mormon-formed brain that experienced a faith crisis? Which emotion dominates in a pre, mid, or post-faith crisis mind? Those were the questions we playfully explored in our Sunstone panel on Aug 1 at the University of Utah. Listen in as Glenn narrates and the audience chooses exactly what will...

Glenn Ostlund's Psychology Today Profile Matt, Kristin, and Jake sing their praise to the world’s bestest magic seer stone. Thanks to Andrew Ainsworth for the lyrics. New LDS Hymn: Praise to the Stone VERSE 1 Praise to the stone that was found by the Prophet! For treasure seeking it first was employed Though to the buried loot it never did lead him The stone aided Joseph in a greater ploy CHORUS:...