Inside Out with Jim Bennett and Ian Wilks

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss the reasons Jim deactivated his Twitter account,  as well as what bad behavior by Latter-day Saints online means for the Church as a whole. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim review the highlights and lowlights of the latest General Conference and celebrate the long-awaited announcement of a new temple in Scotland. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim are joined by James Burnham, who shares his faith journey along with two lovely songs, one of which is an original James Burnham composition. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim speak with Graeme Stocks, who is currently serving as the bishop of the Dewsbury Ward in Yorkshire, England.  

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss BYU's decision to bring Elder Holland's controversial "musket fire" talk out of mothballs and make it the subject of a new course for incoming freshmen. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim have a wide-ranging conversation with Peter Bleakley, one of the founding members of the Britvengers and a passionate advocate for reform in the Church. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss the sale of the Kirtland Temple and other historical sites and artifacts, and they try to get to the bottom of the century-old question: who is Elias? 

Send us Fan Mail This episode includes an AI-enhanced version of Senator Robert F. Bennett's fireside on The Book of Mormon given on April 10, 2016, three weeks before his death. Ian and Jim discuss the fireside and the impact of The Book of Mormon on the Church and their individual lives. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim have a conversation with Anthony Miller, a former Church member in a mixed-faith marriage who provided support for Ian during his own faith transition. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim have a conversation with Roy and Emma Hann, a couple who were stalwarts of the Church in Scotland for most of their lives. They describe their time in the Church and the events in their faith journey that led them and their thirteen children to leave. 

Send us Fan Mail In a rare interview, former Area Authority Seventy Hans Mattson, a man that historian Greg Prince described as "the highest-ranking church official who has gone public with deep concerns" about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,  joins Ian and Jim for a provocative discussion about his journey out of the Church.  Hans offers candid reflections of his intera...

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss a recent transgender baptism, as well as other developments that seem to signal greater LGBTQ inclusion in the Church. 

Send us Fan Mail Chelsea Goodrich, an integrative psychotherapist from Hailey, Idaho who was featured by the Associated Press for her compelling and heart-wrenching story of sexual abuse within the Church, returns to Inside Out to tell more of her harrowing story. Only this time, she is joined by her mother, Lorraine Goodrich. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss the hiring of Aaron Sherinian as the Church's new Managing Director of Church Communications and what that means for the Church's position on LGBTQ rights. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian supervises as Jim goes off on why Donald Trump is a massive trial of his personal faith. 

Send us Fan Mail Irene Gilmour, a former Latter-day Saint from Scotland, joins Ian and Jim to recount her experience in the Church, most notably a service mission she served in Costa Rica that went traumatically awry. 

Send us Fan Mail In their final episode of 2023, Ian and Jim have a groundbreaking conversation with Chelsea Goodrich,  an integrative psychotherapist from Hailey, Idaho who was featured by the Associated Press for her compelling and heart-wrenching story of sexual abuse within the Church.  Chelsea shares more details of her story and her own faith journey, focusing on what she calls the "wea...

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim confront the thorny issue of sexual abuse in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

Send us Fan Mail Breaking news! Ian and Jim discuss the exciting announcement of Patrick Kearon as the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim revisit the topic of prophetic infallibility and discuss the reasons why agency and infallibility are wholly incompatible. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim go "straight through" the life of Elder M. Russell Ballard, sharing personal experiences with him and reviewing his complicated legacy. (The "straight through" thing is clever in context.)

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim are joined by Les Cairns, a Church leader in Scotland with a different perspective than George Stewart.  The "robust" discussion focuses on Les's experience in the Church and the problems of the false doctrine of prophetic infallibility. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim begin a conversation about the CES Letter with a focus on the section discussing the Holy Ghost. When do you know it's really the Holy Ghost? And is Mufasa from The Lion King real?

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Ian and Jim have their first guest! George Stewart, a former bishop and former member of the Edinburgh Scotland Stake Presidency, discusses his faith journey and his decades of Church service, as well as his departure from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss the age-old question of why God allows bad things to happen to good people. How often does God intervene in our lives? Does the Church provide any unique answers to these questions?