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What do you do when you prepare for something incredible, but life has other plans?

Today’s listener essay comes from Nate.  We titled it “Hasadiga Runaway.”

This is #6 of 14 essays in the February 2018 Listener Essay Contest on Infants on Thrones.

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When your friends all say they KNOW something is true and you’re not really sure, but they expect you to say you KNOW it too, what do you do?

Today’s listener essay comes from Ricky.  He titled it “Nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself” which we processed through our very own Urim and Thummim to get “Choose for Yourself.”

This is #5 of 14 essays in the February 2018 Listener Essay Contest on Infants on Thrones

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How can you channel your inner Randy Snyder atheist without being a complete a-hole to believing family and friends (Delaney’s words, not mine…)?  Today’s listener essay comes from Delany.  She titled it “The Atheist and the Humanist.”

This is #4 of 14 essays in the February 2018 Listener Essay Contest on Infants on Thrones.

Here is where you will find Delaney’s blog:

https://delaneydarco.wordpress.com

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Remember when you used to think you were all that and a bag of chips cuz of the whole “chosen people” thing?  Today’s listener essay comes from Liz.  We are calling it “Remarkable Unremarkable Me.”

This is #3 of 14 essays in the February 2018 Listener Essay Contest on Infants on Thrones

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How do you maintain a relationship with religious family members once you have left religion behind?  Today’s listener essay comes from Peter.  We are calling it “Religious Family Members.”  This is 2 of 14 essays to come over the next 2 weeks on Infants on Thrones.

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Today’s listener essay comes from Leah.  We are calling it “My Super Excruciating Mormonism.”  This is 1 of 14 essays to come over the next 2 weeks on Infants on Thrones.

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Tom sits down with his oldest daughter who wrote an essay for a college class titled, “The Religious Influence on my Life.” She talks and writes about the shift her life took when her father came out to her as an unbeliever.

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Glenn joins forces with John Dehlin, Gina Colvin, Lindsay Hansen Park, and Jamie Hanis-Handy to discuss Spiral Dynamics, a data-based, psychological theory of how human consciousness adapts and changes. Spiral Dynamics can help us better understand the way we view religion and the way we view the world.

This is a slight different version of the conversation that is being cross-published on Mormon Stories and A Thoughtful Faith. Cuz this one was edited Infant Stylz.