Choosing Faith

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This is Choosing Faith, a podcast where we talk with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to discover their stories, challenges, joys and everything in between. Tune in to hear some inspiring conversations and explore what it’s like to live, and continuously choose, a life of faith across Australia and New Zealand.

  1. 01/20/2023

    BONUS. Charles Lawson: The top 10 reasons millennials are leaving the church

    Two years ago, Charles Lawson, a member of the church in the UK, became troubled after watching many young people around him grow up and out of the church. Prompted to delve further into the reasons why, he found himself embarking on a faith journey of his own, tackling the hard questions facing the rising LDS generation.  The result of his searching is a new book entitled "The Millennial Shot: A Spiritual Inoculation for the Modern Latter-day Saint", which explores the top ten causes for the millennial generation leaving the church.  While his book doesn’t profess to have all the answers, it does provide context and faith promoting insights to better understand certain issues, policies and practices which can trouble so many of us. Charles Lawson is a husband, father of six and convert to the church. In his spare time he enjoys dragging his family on canoeing and hiking trips which often turn out to be much longer than anyone anticipated.   To find out more about his book, click here:  https://www.millennialshot.com/  https://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Shot-Inoculation-Latter-day-Inoculations-ebook/dp/B0B5FLLXFP

    55 min

  2. 07/16/2022

    S2 E10. Sulueti Kama: Fostering, adopting, and finding answers in the temple

    At age 38, Sulueti Kama, after caring for a number of other people’s children over the years, realised she may not be able to have children biologically. With a strong testimony of the power of praying to the Lord in His holy temple, Sulu and her husband travelled to Tonga, the nearest temple at the time, to petition the Lord for a child. What unfolded next is nothing short of miraculous.

    37 min

  3. 04/23/2022

    S2 E9. Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr: When more is more: How context enhances our understanding of church history

    The church of jesus christ of latter-day saints has a wondrous, inspiring, and sometimes puzzling history. While there are numerous miraculous events which testify of the restored gospel, and are the core pillars of many saints’ testimonies, other events can be more challenging to wrap our heads around. No one understands the complexities of history better than Elder LeGrand Curtis Jr, the current Church historian and recorder, who joins me today to explore how reading stories of  saints from the past can actually strengthen, rather than shake, our faith.

    1 hr

  4. 02/26/2022

    S2 E8. Mia Skipwith: Mending the 'broken bits' from an abusive childhood

    If you were to meet Mia Skipwith now, you might be tempted to assume that with her warm heart and loving demeanour, she’s been a member of the church her whole life. However Mia did not grow up in a safe, nurturing home, nor did she have a knowledge of a Father in Heaven who loved her. But despite suffering through a childhood of abuse, and feeling utterly alone, Mia has defied the odds and found a life of peace through the gospel of Jesus Christ. In this episode Mia joins me to trace her miraculous journey over the last thirty years, which has involved escaping her family environment, navigating foster care, tackling trauma, meeting the missionaries, adjusting to life in the gospel as a single mother, and learning how the Atonement of Jesus Christ and forgiving those who wronged her could heal all her ‘broken bits’. Just a quick content warning, while we don’t go into details, this episode does reference various forms of childhood abuse.

    53 min

  5. 01/14/2022

    S2 E7. Raising kids with Kasey Davidson: Albinism, cancer and modern miracles

    After a poignant line in her patriarchal blessing, Kasey Davidson, a Brisbane mother of four, grew up knowing that motherhood would bring some extra challenges.  Little did she realise that marrying her future husband would form a rare combination of genetics and result in their first three children were born with Albanism. She definitely didn’t anticipate her eldest later developing a form of cancer.  In this episode Kasey joins me to share what it’s like having children with Albanism, how her family navigated the turmoil and rigmarole of cancer, and how throughout it all, prayers to heaven were always answered.

    50 min

  6. 12/11/2021

    S2 E6. Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts on the value of religion: An atheist's perspective

    Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts, a Senior Lecturer and Doctor of Law at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, is not your average atheist. Juliet specialises in charity and trusts law, and despite having no religious belief herself, has recently fallen down the rabbit hole of religious law.  Her latest project seeks to uncover the financial and sociological value that religions play in our societies, and despite many calling for the removal of laws which protect religious bodies, her research is revealing that in fact, modern societies need religion just as much as ever.

    45 min

  7. 11/26/2021

    S2 E5. Professor Keith Thompson: The Trinity doctrine and finding unity with other faiths

    By 325 AD, a number of ideas about the nature of God and Jesus Christ had emerged in the early Christian church, which led Roman emperor Constantine to convene a council in Nicaea to attain theological consensus. Since then, the Nicene Creed is often relied upon as the basis for modern Christian thinking, and can be a point of division between members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Christians. Keith Thompson, Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Notre Dame in Sydney, has researched this in depth. In this episode he joins me to discuss his recent book ‘Trinity and Monotheism’, which traces the evolution of the Trinity doctrine. As someone who frequently works with people of other faiths, Professor Thompson suggests that just like Constantine, who was willing to accommodate a number of differences in Christian belief, perhaps we need not be so divided when it comes to this doctrine.

    36 min

  8. 10/07/2021

    S2 E4. Linda Hart: Lessons from General Conference

    It’s that time of year again! In this episode I’m joined by Linda Hart, the ultimate general conference hype girl, to hear how she prepares for conference and how to make the most of this weekend.

    26 min
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This is Choosing Faith, a podcast where we talk with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to discover their stories, challenges, joys and everything in between. Tune in to hear some inspiring conversations and explore what it’s like to live, and continuously choose, a life of faith across Australia and New Zealand.

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    2021 - 2023
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    22
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