Inside Out with Jim Bennett and Ian Wilks

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?

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim examine recently released Church growth numbers and predict what this means for the Church's future. In the meantime, Ian commits his entire life to getting recognized by LDSBot.com.

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim finish their discussion of General Conference with an in-depth analysis of President Nelson's "Think Celestial!" talk.  Spoiler: One of them liked it much more than the other one did. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss the Church's recently concluded General Conference, with specific emphasis on the talk given by President Dallin H. Oaks. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim review Elder Holland's problematic 2012 interview with the BBC that was a pivotal moment in Ian's decision to leave the Church. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim explore the state of play in the Tim Ballard debacle. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim reflect on how their missionary experience remains resonant in their lives 35 years after the fact. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim continue to recount their experiences in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission from 1987-1989. Beware of missionary couples with racist nicknames for Brazil nuts!

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim recount their time in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission in the late 1980s. 

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a discussion from the Mormonish podcast about recent changes in the UK's child protection laws and how they impact the Church. It features both Ian and Jim, as well as Mormonish's Rebecca Biblioteca and Landon Brophy, and a special appearance by Sam Young, who fought to keep Church leaders from asking sexually explicit questions in youth interviews. 

Send us Fan Mail Ian and Jim discuss the public and personal impact of the 2015 Church handbook policy that denied blessings and baptism to the children of gay parents.