Inside Out with Jim Bennett and Ian Wilks

You probably know this, but I haven’t heard it discussed- that if church membership is mostly growing in Africa, it greatly increases the issues with the lgbtq+ community because in most African countries, being anything except heterosexual is a crime, some places a capital crime! If the church for instance, sanctioned gay marriage, African members might leave in huge numbers. I don’t see a solution unfortunately! The policies in the handbook, especially the new 2024 Trans one, make me very sad and disappointed! Marilee Bott

Fantastic, open, candid, and vulnerable approach and partnership between the co-hosts makes for an honest and insightful conversation about things LDS and human related. This is a great model of how members and non-members, especially those who have chosen to leave, can relate to each other and should have conversations. Thank you!

Love this! Super interesting podcast. Hope they start doing this weekly

I have binge listened to your show and I am so glad I finally have found someone who thinks! I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, like Jim, and I relate to his point of view in a lot of things. There may be some disagreement, but I know how to disagree nicely. The episode that touches me is the Trump one! Finally I do not feel like the Lone Ranger and see that someone else hasn’t drank the Trump kool aide. I can’t understand how members of the church are so fooled by this guy. He is pure evil. I too have thoughts about the Roe Vs Wade issue and have pretty much been shunned in my little rural Utah community because of my position. Honestly it doesn’t differ from the church stance other than I believe in giving a woman the right to choose what happens to her body. Many people think that is against what the church teaches, but I feel like that is EXACTLY what the church teaches. I am not going to judge someone for a decision that they have to make not knowing everything that they are suffering with. I am going to give them grace and love them and mourn with them and not push my religious beliefs on someone who doesn’t believe the same way I do. I would love to hear that discussion and point of view and maybe be involved in the discussion. Ha!