Spiritual Arson

One of the things Adam and Tanner encounter frequently online is the number of people who respect what the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has done in creating tight-knit communities, industrious people, and high levels of trust.

Many of them want to live amongst us or even try to reverse engineer what we've created but they can't ever get behind our actual beliefs.

In this episode Adam and Tanner talk about how crucial it is to actually have a testimony of the restored Gospel and how none of the benefits we experience as a people are possible without that requisite faith.

Culture needs to cover everything from the most simple and approachable aspects to the elements that are lofty and aspirational. In this episode, Adam and Tanner talk about what the culture of the Church looks like from a low and high perspective, along with ideas on how to fill in the missing gaps.

This week Hank Smith, a professor of religion at BYU and creator of "Thou Shalt Be Nice" came under fire for defending Joseph Smith on Twitter. Hank is one of the safest, most innocuous public faces of the Church and if he started to get pressure for his conviction, you better believe it's coming your way too. In this episode Adam and Tanner talk about why this pressure happens, what principles can be understood from it, and how to prepare yourself for when cancel culture forces you to choose a side.

In this episode Adam and Tanner talk with a Latter-day Saint influencer named Kwaku bout why he's so vocal about defending the Church online, how its affected his testimony and relationship with Christ, what it's like to take fire from all sides, and what he believes building Zion looks like.

In this episode Adam and Tanner walk through their favorite talks and biggest takeaways after listening to the April 2021 session of general conference.

In this episode Adam and Tanner walk through what their plans are to make both Easter and General Conference a more immersive, meaningful, and spiritually-fulfilling time.

They discuss family traditions, sacrifices, old holidays and new.

In our efforts to provide space for the legitimate exceptions to the rule, we've become a culture that has lost sight of the ideal - and that's a problem.

In this episode Adam and Tanner talk about focusing on the ideal, the blessings of having lots of children, excellence vs adequacy, and more.

We've been told that the wheat will be sifted from the tares and it's important to remember that the sifting doesn't only happen in one direction - there can be apostasy due to progressivism and there can be apostasy due to fundamentalism.

In this episode, Adam and Tanner discuss the recently announced changes to the Salt Lake and Manti temples, hearing the Spirit in the hyberbole of the World, cultural erasure and building, and more.

In this week's episode, Adam lays out his understanding of agency - how it applies to parenting, how we can better utilize it ourselves, and how it helps us further understand the Lord.

He and Tanner also talk through resilience, leadership, optics, and - as always - about a dozen other little tangents.

Serving is a mission is both a commandment and a blessing, and it's also challenging, difficult, and often very miserable. In this episode, Tanner and Adam share insights, cringe-worthy experiences, and perspectives on being in the service of the Lord full time.