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E205: Perfectionism: Mormon Style. Sep 15, 2025

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Is your life a sermon? Do you imagine your every action being narrated by a general authority? In this episode, Stephen Carter dives into perfectionism, showing how it manifests in people’s lives, and proposing a few odd ways to escape it. (Hint: Not through fasting and prayer.)

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E204: The Saddest Book in the World: How Filmmaker David Lynch Revised My View of the Book of Mormon Aug 12, 2025

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Jesus, Mormon, and David Lynch walk into Stephen Carter’s head. Together, they manage to revise everything Stephen thought he knew about the Book of Mormon, the Atonement, and Eraserhead.

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E202: Three Steps Toward Weathering a Faith Crisis in Your Marriage. Aug 07, 2025

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A faith crisis is one of the most destabilizing things that can happen to an LDS marriage. Both partners feel betrayed. Feelings either erupt or are suppressed. In this episode, therapists Adam Fisher and Mary Fisher talk about the three most important things a couple can do to help each other.

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E200: J. Golden Kimball: The Man Behind the Myth. Aug 07, 2025

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He was the Church’s most unlikely general authority. A coffee habit, an oft-shot-off mouth, and–according to this great-grandnephew–a deep spirituality. This episode includes some of J. Golden Kimball’s funniest stories and reflections by James N. Kimball on the man behind the myth.

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E203: The Dance of Love: A Lynne Kanavel Whitesides Memorial. Aug 07, 2025

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In September 1993, six scholars—called the September Six—were disciplined by the LDS Church. Lynne Kanavel Whitesides was the first. For the next ten years, she went on an extraordinary spiritual journey. Sadly, she passed away July 7, 2025. In her memory, this episode features a recording of the speech she gave about her spiritual journey at the 2003 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium.

E199: How I Made It Through Life Without Missing a Single Guilt Trip. May 19, 2025

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Being a single, 25-year-old Mormon female is a tough life. But Dorothy Black makes it into a stand-up comedy routine in this episode of the Sunstone Podcast.

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E198: Relief Society Baby. Apr 28, 2025

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For Heather Sundahl, Relief Society was the “monster child that sucked up my mom.” What was it like to be the daughter of the most powerful woman in the stake—who couldn’t find time to read to her?

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E197: The Indomitable Raftsman of Mormonism. Apr 17, 2025

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In 1954, California LDS bishop Devere Baker set out to prove that Lehi could have sailed from the Persian Gulf to Guatemala—by sailing his own raft, which he called the Lehi. Samuel Taylor tells about Baker’s 25-year endeavor—and how he went through six Lehis in the process.

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E196: You Can Go Home Again. But Do You Want To? Apr 03, 2025

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How much can we heal from the wounds our religious community gave us? Stephen Carter explores the “hero cycle” story structure to find out.

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E195: An Insider’s Look at the Baseball Baptisms in Britain. Mar 18, 2025

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The Baseball Baptism era is a controversial one in LDS history. Richard Mavin gives a first-hand account of how it all happened in Britain and how his mission experience both thrilled and haunted him for the rest of his life.

https://sunstone.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SLP-195.mp3

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