And Yet, We Believe
Faith isn't always black and white. We're a married couple having honest conversations about the beautiful, messy middle of Latter-day Saint life where doubt and devotion coexist, questions lead to deeper understanding, and everyone belongs. Join us as we dive into questions about culture and theology in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We don't have all of the answers, and yet, we believe. We record these episodes live on Instagram each week. Follow us (Anne) @the.vision.beautiful and (Roger) @from.the.overflow for details and more Latter-day Saint content.
Episodes
What is the second hour actually for?
With the new shortened Sunday School, Relief Society, and elders quorum meetings, it’s easy to focus on logistics: transitions, lesson length, announcements, and whether teachers can do anything meaningful in 25 minutes. But maybe the question isn’t whether we can make the lesson fit into the allotted time. Maybe it’s whether anyone is remembered, nourished, relieved, or sent ...
wo people can grow up in the same church (in the same ward, and even family!) and walk away with completely different memories of what they were taught. And they both can be telling the truth when they share those memories with others.
This episode digs into why that's so hard for us to sit with, what our psychology and theology say about it, and why "that's not what I experienced" should never be used as an argument-ender.
You pray, and you don’t get a grand, dramatic answer. You get asked about times when you’ve felt the Spirit, and you can’t think of something recent. Does it mean something’s wrong with you? Does it mean you don’t have enough faith? We think the answer is no. Most of life is spent in the in-between times, between the big spiritual moments you can describe. And that in-between isn't the absence of faith...
Most of us either grew up with a version of Hell that scared us into behaving, or it wasn't something we fully understood.
In this episode, we talk about how Jesus spoke about Hell, what early church leaders taught about it, and what we think about it now.
The beauty of the modern revelation of eternal progression in place of eternal damnation is a doctrine of mercy. It is better for all of us to focus on that loving doctrine rathe...
What does it mean to love what is real, without giving up hope for what could be? In this episode, we explore acceptance not as approval or resignation, but as the honest seeing that makes love, grief, boundaries, and faithful hope possible — for our children, our ward members, ourselves, and the Church. This is the challenge we all face at one time or another: how do we stop loving the picture in our heads, and begin loving ...
We did an episode for Father's Day and it might be for you if you've ever felt some tension about how fatherhood gets talked about (or doesn't) at church.
So many of the talks default into talking about the priesthood instead of the actual, lived experience of being a dad. We dig into that gap and what it might look like to talk about fatherhood on its own terms.
Pride Month has a way of bringing things to the surface... questions we've been quietly sitting with and a longing to show up better for people we love. We're believing members of the LDS church who don't have this all figured out yet, but we care deeply about the LGBTQ people in our lives and in our pews.
If you have ever felt caught between your faith and allyship or you've wanted to do better but didn't know where to start, this...
We’re taught that the gospel brings joy. So what do we do when we’re doing all the things and the joy isn’t there? In this episode, we sit with the quiet equation a lot of us absorbed — if I were really living the gospel, I’d be happy, so if I’m not, I must be doing it wrong — and ask what it costs us. We talk about joy and sorrow as companions rather than enemies, the costumes we wear to c...
Most of us were taught to keep the commandments. Not all of us were taught a true why we should keep them.
In this episode, we explore the difference between obedience -doing what's asked- and discipleship, which is the slower, harder work of actually becoming someone different. We look honestly at what fear-based obedience costs us and what it might mean to move from compliance toward genuine transformation.
This isn't a critique ...
In the year 2000, President Hinckley taught that one set of earrings was enough. Lessons got built around it. Girls took out their second pair. And then it quietly stopped being talked about. Nobody announced the teaching was retired. It just went silent.
The Church usually doesn’t say "this is no longer binding." Which means it’s up to every member to decide what still counts—and often we don't agree with each ot...
Mother's Day at church is beautiful for some women, and really hard for others. This week we're having the honest conversation that doesn't always make it to the pulpit. We talk about the women who dread this Sunday, why LDS culture's love for motherhood can unintentionally leave people out, and what it would actually look like to honor every woman in the room.
This one is for the women who have sat in sacrament meeting on Mother's...
The Family Proclamation is thirty years old, and the questions surrounding it have only gotten louder: Is it scripture? Is it policy? Is it a relic of the 1990s culture wars? We take an honest look at where this document came from, what it actually is, and—most importantly—what to do with the parts that don't feed us.
If you could add your own Beatitude to the list, what would it be? Watch/listen to the end to hear ours!
We've heard the Beatitudes hundreds of times. In Sunday School, in sacrament meeting, and more. And yet, if we're really honest with ourselves, how many of us are actually striving to live them?
When Jesus spoke these words, He was inviting us to live a deeper, more transformational gospel.
In this week's episode, we discuss the...
What if the thing you were warned away from is exactly what your faith needs? Many of us absorbed the idea that the fullness of the gospel means we don't need anything from anybody else — but Joseph Smith said the exact opposite. In this episode, we talk about the voices outside the Church that have shaped us most, and why gathering truth from everywhere turns out to be one of the most Latter-day Saint things you can do.
Most of us grew up reading the scriptures one way. We read them as history, as fact, as events that had to have literally happened to matter. But what if that's only half the picture?
In this episode, we sit down and explore what it looks like to read scripture literally, symbolically and everything in between. We talk about what the different approaches have to offer and what we might miss if we use only one.
We're not trying to t...
Why does General Conference feel inspiring to some and painful, alienating, or complicated to others? In this episode, we explore how communication theory and Brian McLaren’s stages of faith help explain why “general” counsel is always received specifically—through our histories, identities, wounds, hopes, and questions. We also make space for faithful, selective ways of engaging Conference, and ask what it ...
Sometimes the things we believe are shaping us for good are actually keeping us stuck.
Not because we're insincere, but because some forms of "goodness" are rooted more in fear than in love.
In this episode, we dig into the Buddhist concept of near and far enemies and how they show up in our lives. This conversation is an invitation, not to judge yourself or others, but to see more clearly and to live your values more authentically...
What if doing *more* in the gospel is actually getting in the way of or experiencing God? There a big difference between our spiritual practices being checklist items, vs. being opportunities to be in communion with God. Sometimes showing down might be the most spiritual thing we can do.
What is Zion? And how do we build Zion? In this episode, we explore Zion as a community effort as well as an individual pursuit.
Perhaps Zion is what happens when transformed people create transformed communities.
Perhaps Zion is what naturally emerges when people actually start living what Jesus Christ taught.
Lowercase “p” prophets show up in ordinary places—Relief Society lessons, late-night texts with a friend, a neighbor who quietly tells the truth and protects the vulnerable. In this episode we talk about what “prophet” can look like beyond titles or offices, what lowercase “p” prophets have influenced us, and how the goal, as always, is a greater relationship with God.
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