Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone & Jeff Strong: Why People Leave the LDS Church… and Come Back

Come Back Podcast

Show Notes

"I just believe that God is found in the messiness. We just need to have faith that even when it makes no sense and nothing seems to be working, that it's in that very messiness that He will find us. That's how it's supposed to be. It's not supposed to be clean and linear. It's meandering and messy and crazy, and then He reaches through the fog of that, and He finds us."

00:00 Conformity and Agency 14:59 Family Faith Crisis Begins 30:35 Why People Step Away 48:00 Let Them Choose 51:37 Agency Changes Everything 01:03:20 Repairing Ruptures 01:10:06 Gatherers Not Sifters

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Director, Founder, & Host: Ashly Stone Editor: Cara Reed Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Assistant Editor: Britt Smallze Art Director: Jeremy Garcia Production Director: Trent Wardwell

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