Best L.M. Smith Podcasts (2025)

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S1 E7 Living in Truth After a Crisis of Faith 54:12

24d ago54:12

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Send us a text! This episode explores the complex journey of life after a Mormon faith crisis through personal stories and expert insights. The hosts examine how individuals navigate the challenges of rebuilding their lives, finding new sources of meaning, and managing relationships after leaving or questioning their religious beliefs, while offeri…

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S1 E6 Spiritual Self Reliance: Balancing Authority and Personal Truth 24:36

24d ago24:36

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Send us a text! This episode explores the complex relationship between spiritual self-reliance and religious authority within the LDS Church. The hosts examine how members can balance respecting church leadership while developing their own spiritual autonomy, discussing the challenges of critical thinking, informed consent, and personal revelation …

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S1 E5 Faith Crisis in Mormonism: Examining Information Control & Historical Narratives 25:45

24d ago25:45

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Send us a text! This episode explores faith crises within the LDS Church through the lens of the BITE model (Behavior, Information, Thought, and Emotional control). The hosts examine how the church manages historical narratives, handles "uncorrelated information," and responds to members experiencing doubts. Through analysis of a 2013 study and var…

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S1 E4 Personal Revelation: Navigating Divine Guidance in the Mormon Faith 20:12

24d ago20:12

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Send us a text! This episode explores the nature of personal revelation within the LDS Church, examining how individuals recognize spiritual guidance, handle unanswered prayers, and navigate conflicts between personal promptings and institutional teachings. Through various sources including academic articles and devotional speeches, the hosts discu…

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S1 E3 What is Truth? Five Categories of Knowledge. 24:10

24d ago24:10

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Send us a text! This episode explores the complex nature of truth through five distinct categories: scientific, historical, religious, metaphorical, and experiential truth. Hosts Meg Jensen and Paul Carter examine how each category operates with its own verification methods and tools for understanding reality. Through diverse examples ranging from …

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S1 E2 Our Desire for Certainty: Faith, Doubt, and the Mormon Experience 18:21

24d ago18:21

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Send us a text! This thought-provoking episode explores humanity's universal desire for certainty, particularly within the context of Mormon faith. Hosts Meg Jensen and Paul Carter examine how the emphasis on "knowing" rather than "believing" shapes Mormon culture and individual faith journeys. Through personal stories and academic insights, they i…

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S1 E1 Prologue: A Father's Dilemma to Preserve or Disrupt a Mormon Legacy 15:43

1M ago15:43

15:43

Send us a text! Faith. Truth. Legacy. All come together as one generation of Latter-day Saints passes the torch of truth on to the next. . . It is TRUE, isn't it? What happens when disbelief disrupts a 7th-generation Mormon father just as his kids are coming of age to be baptized into the faith? This introduction to Study Faith with AI paints the b…

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Post-Inauguration Thoughts: Snowed In, Fed Up, and Where to Go Now 1:33:02

2M ago1:33:02

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January is lasting 6 months, I'm snowed in, and Trump's in office. Needless to say, there's a lot going on... Tune in for my rant about Southerners and Snow days, observations of the first 5 days of Trump's presidency, and specific suggestions for where we go from here. I had some whiskey while recording it...I'd suggest you'd get a drink too...…

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Straighten Up and Fly Right: What the Rise of the Right Means for Natural Hair, Straight Hair Naturals, True Black Girl Magic, and Self-Love in the Time of Hate 2:00:43

2M ago2:00:43

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Conservatives, Straight hair, and Self-hate OH MY! The natural hair movement has been stalled for a while now, but is the new political order the final bell's toll? On this episode, I discuss my observations about the rise of the straight-hair naturals, The "Gotta Be Me" Podcast controversy, the Red Pill manosphere's challenge to (Black) women, Tig…

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Diversifying Black Femininity: Janet Jackson, The Stingettes, Sarah Baartman, and Sojourner Truth 41:59

2M ago41:59

41:59

I'm fast approaching forty, and I still have days where I'm questioning whether my outfit looks too masculine. I have spent years questioning what is femininity, and specifically, what is BLACK femininity and why does it look and feel so different from White femininity? Listen as I discuss a few pivotal moments in my childhood that molded and shift…

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The Beyoncé Bowl, Plastic Off the Sofa, and The Stono Rebellion 31:31

2M ago31:31

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I watched the Beyonce Bowl, and like most of the Beyhive, I have thoughts and theories. Tune in for my rambling string of consciousness as I focus on two things that really incited me to chorus. This "Unbuttoned" version of the Black Belt Belle pairs well with Episode 1 entitled "No Beyoncé, the Music Isn't Enough: We Need the Visuals"...and your f…

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We Need the Visuals, Beyoncé!: Surviving the Apocalypse, Afro-Futurism, Octavia Butler, and the Need for Black Utopias 1:11:24

3M ago1:11:24

1:11:24

Beyoncé told us "Shut the hell up about the visuals," and I am distraught! Follow along as I explore and expound on the missed opportunity for Afro Futurism and the BIGGEST criticism I have of Cowboy Carter that she could have fixed with a visual album. In this episode, I discuss how I use Beyoncé in my African American Studies course, and why I ha…

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S1 E7 Living in Truth After a Crisis of Faith 54:12

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S1 E6 Spiritual Self Reliance: Balancing Authority and Personal Truth 24:36

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S1 E5 Faith Crisis in Mormonism: Examining Information Control & Historical Narratives 25:45

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S1 E4 Personal Revelation: Navigating Divine Guidance in the Mormon Faith 20:12

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S1 E3 What is Truth? Five Categories of Knowledge. 24:10

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S1 E2 Our Desire for Certainty: Faith, Doubt, and the Mormon Experience 18:21

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S1 E1 Prologue: A Father's Dilemma to Preserve or Disrupt a Mormon Legacy 15:43

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Post-Inauguration Thoughts: Snowed In, Fed Up, and Where to Go Now 1:33:02

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Straighten Up and Fly Right: What the Rise of the Right Means for Natural Hair, Straight Hair Naturals, True Black Girl Magic, and Self-Love in the Time of Hate 2:00:43

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Diversifying Black Femininity: Janet Jackson, The Stingettes, Sarah Baartman, and Sojourner Truth 41:59

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The Beyoncé Bowl, Plastic Off the Sofa, and The Stono Rebellion 31:31

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We Need the Visuals, Beyoncé!: Surviving the Apocalypse, Afro-Futurism, Octavia Butler, and the Need for Black Utopias 1:11:24

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