Spiritual Arson

Like members of many other different churches and faith, latter-day Saints often have an unhealthy relationship with sexuality. We tend to either fall on the side of treating sex like a necessary evil (or at least teaching our kids that's what it is) or we're as overly focused on the hedonistic aspect of it as many of the rest of the world.

While this is certainly not true for all Saints, it is for many. And in this week's episode, Adam and Tanner try to both understand and explain what healthy, Godly sexuality is.

If you haven't already, at some point in your life you will deal with a fallible church leader.

It may be as simple as a personality difference or as extreme as an outright apostate who's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

In this episode, Adam walks us through his experiences with a difficult bishop, what he learned, and how this experience actually deepened his testimony.

We all know how ridiculous it sounds to completely ignore a person's failings because they're attractive or wealthy, so why are we so prone to do just that when a person is charismatic, nice, or polite?

In this episode, Adam and Tanner talk about these forms of Godliness and what happens when they lack depth, along with knowing and worshipping God for who He actually is - not just the image of Him we've created for ourselves.

In this week's episode Adam ask a couple very sincere questions

- Why should we make plans if those plans are often frustrated by life or even the Lord?

- Why do we try to assign reasons and steps to promptings when often those we do assign turn out to be false?

Both of which are questions Adam and Tanner didn't feel like they had any particular answer to. So, in what is typically their favorite approach to take on the show, they started to try find answers together.

In this week's episode Adam and Tanner discuss Elder Holland's talk to the BYU administration and their response. They walk through the larger implications of how the reactions have been, and potential pitfalls of writing it all off too easily.

In this week's episode Adam and Tanner interview Dr Bennet aka Kevin Dolan who was recently fired from his job for his association with #DezNat all as part of the latest attempt of former members to give the Church a black eye.

During the conversation the three talk about how the Lord has blessed Bennet during this transition, what he's doing now, and how other Latter-day Saints can learn and prepare for when they'll be forced to choose between Zion and Babylon.

In this week's episode Adam and Tanner interview Dr Bennet aka Kevin Dolan who was recently fired from his job for his association with #DezNat all as part of the latest attempt of former members to give the Church a black eye.

During the conversation the three talk about how the Lord has blessed Bennet during this transition, what he's doing now, and how other Latter-day Saints can learn and prepare for when they'll be forced to choose between Zion and Babylon.

With the First Presidency releasing a statement this week urging members to get vaccinated and resume wearing masks at church meetings, there have been a lot of member wrestling with the idea of prophetic counsel and how to respond to it this week.

And Adam and Tanner are no exception. In this episode they talk through their initial responses to the statement, how they've wrestled with it, and what their plans are moving forward.

While there are many people in the world who are legitimately struggling with real trials, and the Gospel is obviously the only real solution to what those pains and heartaches are, how do you fit in the Church if your life is great? So much of both the official and unofficial messaging we see and hear in social media, talks, manuals, and Gospel discussions has to do with getting you through a major crisis or struggle. So what should our relationship with the Church and the Gospel be if you currently don't have any major struggles, are happy and thriving, and still want to get closer to the Savior. Adam and Tanner have more questions than answers this week, but believe they are questions worth asking.

If you've been listening for a while, you know that Adam and Tanner are no fans of the elevation of niceness above all other virtues.

It's a horse that's been beaten dead by them repeatedly and in today's episode they go into their theories on why it happened and how to effectively combat it.