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In this episode of Mormonish Podcast, Landon and Rebecca talk with extraordinarily interesting Todd Mark, bird watcher and world traveler extraordinaire! Todd's story is absolutely fascinating as we discuss being a convert to the LDS faith as a child, attending BYU and serving a mission as more of an atheist than a believer. Once he returned from his mission, he became a world traveler and adventurer which led to probably the most pivital experience of his life, being kidnapped and held against his will in Colombia in the late 1990s. Todd's story is a story of survival against the odds that left us speechless as we learned more. We know you'll find this episode as inspiring as we did as we celebrate the resilleance of the human spirit with our friend, Todd Mark.

Video of the Todd Mark's Release: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9KLhZXfjobM

New faithful website attacks post Mormon podcasters’ finances! On this episode of Mormonish Podcast, cohosts Rebecca and Landon and special guest, The Backyard Professor, explore a new faithful website called Answering LDS Critics (answeringldscritics.com). This website is dedicated to “Revealing the Strategies of LDS Church Critics and Addressing Their Accusations.” The site has many links to LDS apologetic resources and materials and features an article called, “Making Money with Anti-Mormonism - A Critical Look at LDS Critics.” The article promotes the idea that post Mormon thought leaders and podcasters are only in it for the money, and actually destroy faith for the sole purpose of raking in the cash. The slogan the website uses is “The More Faith They Shake, the More Money They Make!” Mormonish dives into the data and shines a spotlight on the facts when it comes to post Mormon thought leaders and podcasters. Join us as we set the story straight!

Resources:

Answering LDS Critics

https://www.answeringldscritics.com/

Mormon Stories Transparency Update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4VI70JagBQ

On a very special episode of Mormonish, Rebecca and Landon sit down with our good friend, Melisa Mons to discuss the potential "November 15th" like General Handbook policy chaanges regarding the transgender community. These changes have been discussed on social media on multiple platforms. Melisa is in a mixed faith marriage and the parent of a transgender child. She is an outspoken advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, and shares her empassioned plea for understanding and acceptance of LGBTQ+ youth in the church by members and leadership. Melisa is a wonderful, caring individual who works tirelessly to support this community and more. We know you'll be as moved as we were by her story.

We all know the story of the Virgin Birth? But do we? Mormonish cohosts Rebecca and Landon dig deeper into the origins of the virgin birth story to analyze it's validity and learn more about the mythology around it. This episode was orginally released in 2022, but we are re-releasing it now in tandum with a Backyard Professor episode we will be doing on Thursday night (May 4th, 2023), covering the Gospel Topic Essary, "Are Mormons Christian?" This was a fascinating topic to research and we learned a lot, we hope you will too.

Church historian, Kyle S. McKay gave a devotional address on April 25th at BYU Idaho and Mormonish is here to give you a thorough run down and blow by blow account of this unexpected address that social media is buzzing about. When the church historian says the answer is not to look for answers, we need to dig a little deeper! **We had a little trouble with the audio sync on the clips of the devotional talk in this episode, but audio is great so you’ll still be able to follow along

On this episode of Mormonish podcast, cohosts Rebecca and Landon speak with the fascinating and extremely knowledgeable Bill Reel. Bill delves into the topics he feels passionate about such as psychedelics, human sexuality, the mythology of humankind, finding your authentic self on the other side of Mormonism and more! We absolutely loved getting to know Bill better and honestly, could have kept taping for hours! It was a complete pleasure to interview Bill and we know you’ll find this episode as fascinating as we did!

Please check out Bill’s shows at https://mormondiscussions.org

On this episode of Mormonish, cohosts Rebecca and Landon talk to a real live mermaid! Or at least the next best thing! Our guest is the wonderful, multiple award winning author, Lorelei Kay! We have a wonderful time discussing her award winning book, “From Mormon to Mermaid: One Woman’s Voyage from Oppression to Freedom!” And learning more about her personal faith journey and her adventures in and out of Mormonism. If you’re looking for something awesome to read this summer, we highly recommend this enchanting, whimsical memoir that hits very close to home for most of us!

**Halfway through the episode we had technical difficulties and had to continue with audio only for the second half. Apologies!

Mormonish is thrilled to team up with Thrive in this special public service announcement announcing “Thrive Women’s Conference” coming up Friday, June 2nd and Sunday, June 3rd! Cohosts Landon and Rebecca sit down with organizers, Nan Osborne and Rebecca Peterson to discuss the importance of the Thrive organization and all the exciting details of the upcoming Thrive Women’s Conference at Weber State University in Ogden, UT. This two day conference is going to be absolutely amazing with a wonderful lineup of speakers, events, activities, community building and more! Please click on the links below to get tickets and find out more!

THRIVE Beyond Religion – LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE!

https://facebook.com/events/s/thrive-womens-conference/589746299840702/

This week on Mormonish Podcast, Landon and Rebecca spend some time getting to know the wonderful Rene Steelman! Rene is an amazing woman with many life experiences we can all learn from. We discuss her sucessful podcast, "She Became Visible" gives a platform to women who are thriving and doing wonderful things in their communitieis. We also learned more about Rene's life, family and philosophy in this very engaging conversation. We thendiscuss the sensitve topic of the recent death of Rene's son. Rene tells us about her wish to not have an LDS funeral, although many family members might expect that. Instead Rene shares details about the beautiful celebration of life gathering she arranged in honor of her son. This is an episode of Mormonish that was very special to us, and I'm sure it will be to you too. Renee was an unforgettable guest!

She Became Visible Podcast: https://shebecamevisible.org/

In the special bonus episode of Morminish podcast, Landon and Rebecca discuss the recent Brad Wilcox graduation address given at BYU Idaho. This is a very interesting speech by Brother Wilcox, and with so much attention given it to it on social media, Landon and Rebecca weigh in on his pivotal celestial cruise ship analogy and more!