018 – 021 Noah Rasheta’s Mormon Transition

In this episode of Mormon Stories, we interview Noah Rasheta — the Executive Director of the Foundation for Mindful Living and host of the Secular Buddhism podcast.  This meaningful and compelling interview covers: Noah’s early life as an orthodox Mormon believer and his struggle with the thought that with all of the good in the

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Seeking Volunteers to Share Their Stories About Exploring Spirituality Post-Mormonism

Hi folks, I’d like to do a series of episodes for the Mormon Transitions podcast on the topic of exploring spirituality post-Mormonism. I’d like to interview post-Mormons who have discovered new spiritual paths, whether religious or secular, since leaving the LDS church. For many, one of the most difficult aspects of a “faith crisis” is

Science as a Spiritual Springboard

When I was a believing Mormon I appreciated science, but I also sensed great spiritual danger lurking beneath its surface: a tendency to promote atheism, nihilism, and hedonism.  So it is ironic to me that, five years after resigning from the LDS church, the more I’ve studied what scientists say about the Universe and Nature, the more I’ve

Talking About God (And Other Lost Causes)

There’s an old saying that “talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”  For me, that also describes what talking about God is like.  Nothing exposes the arbitrary and ambiguous nature of our language better than the topic of God, and I find myself wanting to blow up the dictionary and create a new language.  It’s