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Jenae Nelson: From Homeless to Finding My Home with God

Jenae Nelson: From Homeless to Finding My Home with God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQAssjRbQu4Conversion is not just a faith moment. It is the process that comes after the conversion story. As an agnostic and homeless sixteen-year-old, Jenae decided to search for her biological father. When she met him for the first...

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Cynthia: Women’s History and Creative Tension

Cynthia: Women’s History and Creative Tension

https://youtu.be/CEw71HD-we8Studying Women’s History in graduate school caused Cynthia to question aspects of the church for the first time, making her feel tension and anger. She didn’t want to give up her faith, but she wasn’t sure how to reconcile what she was...

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Linnette: My Reconversion and LGBTQ Identity

Linnette: My Reconversion and LGBTQ Identity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HzReu_oqMk  For years, Linnette felt that she had to choose between her faith and her sexual identity. But eventually she found a way to strengthen her relationship with God while still identifying as a lesbian. Linnette's story...

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Kate Barker: How My Questions Strengthen My Faith

Kate Barker: How My Questions Strengthen My Faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz6xSB77kG8     You never “arrive” at a testimony. You’re constantly building it. It’s not a present-wrapped box. It’s a house you're building, and you continue to do remodeling and refurbishing. Kate expected her faith to be...

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Erica: How a Questioner Learned that She Belongs and Can Thrive in the Church

Erica: How a Questioner Learned that She Belongs and Can Thrive in the Church

Since she was little, Erica has always appreciated the value of asking sincere religious questions. Unfortunately, she has experienced a variety of responses to her questions, some of which made her feel like perhaps she didn’t belong in the church. Erica shares how her relationships with others have been both challenged and ultimately strengthened as she has learned how to use the process of seeking answers to her questions to develop her relationship with her Heavenly Parents.

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Leo: My Reconversion from Atheist to Believer

Leo: My Reconversion from Atheist to Believer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lLsOs-13Q  Leo’s testimony was shattered when he discovered some details he hadn’t known about Church History. Learn about how he rebuilt his testimony with the help of his old religion professor so that it became more nuanced,...

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Bruce Hafen : My Story of How I Found My Own Testimony

Bruce Hafen : My Story of How I Found My Own Testimony

Elder Bruce Hafen is co-author of Faith is Not Blind and is an emeritus General Authority for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this interview, Elder Hafen details the role of questioning in distinguishing between Gospel belief and knowledge in his own life. He shares his own experience with doubt and with his own questions as he learned to develop his testimony, and offers a refreshing look at how we all need to work to develop our beliefs.

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Kristine: Personal Faith Crisis Survivor Who Is Now Thriving

Kristine: Personal Faith Crisis Survivor Who Is Now Thriving

After being raised in an orthodox home where questions about faith were not encouraged, Kristine had to learn to revise her belief-system when she received an unexpected and unorthodox answer to a prayer. Kristine had grown up in a world with black and white thinking and had to learn to overcome her certainty in order to start to see nuances in her life and in her belief system. She talks about how her husband’s willingness to try and and understand her helped her survive her faith crisis, especially when other loved ones reacted with fear and criticism.

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Christian: A Modern Prodigal Son–A Story of Redemption and Reconversion

Christian: A Modern Prodigal Son–A Story of Redemption and Reconversion

Christian shares his remarkable story about leaving the Gospel at a young age and what prompted his return to the Church years later. He speaks openly about what led him away from the Church and then shares the incredible story of what led him to return to his family and to the Church and to then choose a life of complete spiritual devotion.

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Bill: An Attorney’s Insights About the Burden of Proof and Weighing Evidence

Bill: An Attorney’s Insights About the Burden of Proof and Weighing Evidence

As a trial lawyer, Bill has a unique perspective about using the concept of the burden of proof when doing religious research. Drawing on their years of legal experience, Elder Hafen and Bill discuss how to weigh evidence and listen to both sides as a juror might in a court case. Bill also shares how his battle with cancer expanded the strength of revelatory evidence in his life.

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Dan Ellsworth: Surviving a Faith Crisis and Learning About Redemption

Dan Ellsworth: Surviving a Faith Crisis and Learning About Redemption

Dan Ellsworth says his faith crisis made him feel like “a bomb went off.” In this episode, Dan’s shares the personal details and painful realities that accompanied his own crisis of faith. He then describes how he eventually found personal redemption that helped him not only survive the crisis but emerge from it a stronger, more spiritually settled person. Dan also offers seasoned advice that will help both those experiencing a faith crisis and those who have loved ones struggling with deep doubts.

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Tori: Coping with Racism in the Church: “Ye Are All One in Christ”

Tori: Coping with Racism in the Church: “Ye Are All One in Christ”

As a biracial member of the church, unfortunately Tori has had to deal with ignorant questions and racist comments from other members of the church. With complete honesty Tori shares how painful these interactions have been, but she also shares how she has learned to be forgiving and patient because she wants to help others understand how it feels to be marginalized. Her willingness to share both her sacred and her challenging experiences will inspire you to be more open-minded, more loving, and to remember, as Tori quotes Paul as saying, “[Y]e are all one in Christ” (Galatians 3:28).  

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