OTOS Archive Chris Wei, Michelle Ross, & Blake Wright
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- Religion & Spirituality
"On the Other Side" was a production of the Open Stories Foundation between July 19 and October 25 of 2018. It was a podcast project dedicated to discussing religious, post-religious, and religion-adjacent issues from a distinctly millennial perspective.
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OTOS14: Leaving Pentecostalism
Join us as Michelle interviews Chris Smith. Chris grew up as a practicing Pentecostal but eventually left his faith. Hear his fascinating story and his interesting ties to Mormonism.
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OTOS13: Arrington, the O.G. of Authentic Church History
Lend us you ear as I remember Leonard Arrington with Cristina Rosetti. Cristina is an ethnographer who recently presented at Sunstone about the new Arrington Diaries!
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OTOS12: On Mormonism, Atheism, and Environmental Philosophy
Chris interviews Russell Hatch about his non-religious upbringing in Provo (a town with a large majority of LDS). They discuss exclusion, dogma, the New Atheism, environmental philosophy, and the limits of anthropocentric ethics.
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OTOS11: Who Cares about LDS History?
In this 2-part episode, the 3 of us hosts scratch the surface of some of the more indigestible topics from the early latter-days. We try to understand why these topics are triggering and hope to create a space where these topics are not taboo. Don’t forget to watch for Part 2!
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OTOS09: The Hushed Ones: A Cover-Up 34 Years in the Making
Chris Wei interviews journalist Kristina Smith and filmmaker Spencer Allred about their collaborative project, THE HUSHED ONES, a documentary film which examines the issue of sexual abuse in the LDS Church by looking closely at the McKenna Denson story and the #ProtectLDSChildren movement.
They explain some of the decisions they’re making as documentarians with regard to narrative structure, artistic expression, journalistic ethics, and socioreligious activism; they explore the difficulty in digging into systemic issues with nuance and balance; and they discuss generally what they hope to accomplish—and who they hope to reach—with the project.