And Yet, We Believe

Some commandments have an obvious connection to loving God and other people. Others leave us wondering what the practice has to do with becoming like Christ. In this episode we tackle the Word of Wisdom, with its messy history and everything. And we ask the question: what do we do with commandments, when we don’t fully understand why they’re commandments?

Is the Golden Rule enough? It’s one of the most familiar phrases out there, but is it still applicable and worthwhile in our modern day? This week we look at where it comes from, where it possibly falls short, and what changes when we ask people how they actually want to be loved. 

Most of us learned tithing as a deal: pay ten percent, and God opens the windows of heaven. For a lot of faithful people, the windows have stayed shut. Some of our friends now wince at tithing for other reasons, like where the money goes, or the feeling that a temple recommend has a price tag. We're not here to tell anyone to pay, not pay, or pay a certain way. We want to open the topic up, look at where tithing came from, and ask what it was ever meant to do.

In this episode we explain the name of our podcast: what belief means to us, what the “and yet” is for, and how we hold space when faith feels hard. If you’re struggling right now, this one is for you.

A lot of us grew up with a scoreboard gospel: the truly righteous make the celestial kingdom, and everyone else lands in a "lesser glory" that feels like a failure grade. Some of us now see a God whose mercy reaches further than we were taught. But the scriptures and teachings that gave us the scoreboard are still there, still read over the pulpit, and some of them still have a grip on us. How do we hold the paradox of a strict, meritocratic gospel, with a loving God who is in relentless pursuit of each one of us?

One of the first things God said to human beings was a question: "Where art thou?" This episode is about why a church that started with a teenager's question in a grove got so nervous about asking them, and what it looks like to live in the questions instead of rushing past them. Jesus asked over 300 questions in the Gospels. We can probably handle a few of our own.

Is participating in 'Mormon Culture' dependent on our activity level or is it something more? Is there room in the Church for someone who hasn't been to church in years? 

In this episode, we’re digging into Jell-O, funeral potatoes, MomTok, and what it actually means to be culturally Mormon.

We call God "Father," and mean it. But the picture in our heads—old man, white beard, sitting on a throne—tends to reduce God to something simple, something we can easily understand and explain. But it’s very possible that we can’t even fully comprehend God as mortal humans… and so instead of trying hard to understand something we can’t, we can lean into the mystery of God.

There's a pattern hiding in plain sight across the Gospels: every time a rule and a person came into conflict, Jesus picked the person. Every time.

We dug into what that pattern says about judgment, enemies, and what it actually means to be 'saved.’

Fair warning: this one might mess with how you think about boundaries.

In a faith culture that deeply values service, progress, and consecrated effort, stillness can feel almost suspicious—like we’re not doing enough. This episode reframes stillness as a sacred form of trust: a way of letting God speak, heal, reveal, and transform us beneath all our holy busyness.