Expectations Podcasts

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.

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.

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...

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.