The Raising Family Podcast
"The Raising Family Podcast" hosts David Steele and Linda Hill tackle the most pressing issues facing today's families, from social and cultural questions to theology. The show airs every week wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more, visit TheFamilyProclamation.org
Episodes
33 episodes
Jenet Erickson: The Complimentary Roles of Mothers and Fathers
Our guest in this episode is Jenet Erickson, a Fellow at the Wheatley Institute and Associate Professor of Religious Education at BYU whose research has specialized in maternal and child wellbeing. Join us as we discuss the different, yet...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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52:00
Benjamin Pacini: Humility & The Pursuit of Truth
Benjamin Pacini, host of the podcast, “Radical Civility,” is currently a faculty member at BYU-Idaho in Elementary Education and pursuing an EDD from BYU. His experience as both educator and student has given him a unique perspective on h...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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52:04
Christopher Cunningham: Therapy & Repentance
Christopher Cunningham is the managing editor for Public Square Magazine, a faith and research based online editorial discussing various issues of the day. He joins us to discuss his most recent article, “When Therapy Subverts Change.”
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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36:19
Mimi Bascom: Sharing Testimonies With #HowIKnow
Sharing our testimony can sometimes be a little intimidating, but does it really need to be? In this episode we sit down with Mimi Bascom, a Latter-Day Saint Content Creator who has partnered with us for the knew #HowIKnow campaign. This ...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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28:40
Priscilla Davis: Emotional Resilience and Sharing Goodness
Social media is a large part of our world and, for better or worse, our main source of information. Our guest, Priscilla Davis started her Instagram account, SheSharesGoodness, to encourage anyone struggling with depression or anxiety and...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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40:34
Teresa Clark: Storytelling and Testimony
Elder Neil L. Andersen once said that “spiritually defining memories from our book of life are like luminous stones that help brighten the road ahead.” How do spiritually defining memories act like luminous stones and what can we do to make sur...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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34:34
Jeff Bennion Part Two: Identity
Jeff Bennion is a real estate and property manager, a part time marriage and family therapist, and one of the co-founders of North Star International. In this second part of Jeff’s two-part episode, he clarifies that not subscribing to a gay la...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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32:13
Jeff Bennion Part One: Identity
Jeff Bennion is a real estate and property manager, a part time marriage and family therapist, and one of the co-founders of North Star International. North Star is a faith-affirming resource for Latter-day Saints addressing sexual orientation ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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35:59
Dennis Schleicher: Gay Membership and Temple Work
Dennis Schleicher is the author of “Is He Nuts?: Why a Gay Man Would Become a Member of the Church of Jesus”. He joins the podcast to share his conversion story (1:14) and what drew him to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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56:12
Carol Rice: Gender and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Many families have trouble addressing the topics of gender and identity. This episode is a recording of a speech given by Carol Rice (one of the contributors of thefamilyproclomation.org) about ho...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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43:07
Andrew Young: Social Engineering in Media
The Family Proclamation “calls upon responsible citizens… everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family.” Andrew Young joins the podcast to share his experience as a DreamWorks animator and how he was force...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:03:41
Blake Fisher: Identity and Labels
Blake Fisher is an Inclusion Advisor at BYU with the Office of Student Success. Helping students navigate being in the LGBTQ community while at BYU has given him a unique perspective on labels and how to identify when labels are helping us or h...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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34:14
Nathan & Jelaire Richardson: Family Curriculum
Nathan and Jelaire Richardson are some of the creators of the new curriculum on thefamilyproclamation.org. This curriculum is designed to be a resource for parents and church teachers who need ext...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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37:06
Trials of Faith, Parental Roles, and Driving on the Wrong Side
When Michelle Pollard moved from Australia to the US a few months ahead of her husband Steve, they had no idea that a pandemic was about to change a planned few months away into nearly a year and a half of separation. Michelle and Steve look ba...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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54:22
The Decline of Chastity, Moral Vocabulary and Aristotle
Danny Frost, a Family Life professor at BYU, offers a unique perspective on Paragraph 8 of the Family Proclamation by applying his background in philosophy and politics. Paragraph 8 warns us that the disintegration of chastity and family will b...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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52:25
Single Mothers and Preparing for the Temple
When Lauren Colemere became a single mother she realized she wanted to make a course correction for her life and the life of her daughter. That course correction pointed them towards the temple, and on today’s episode Lauren shares her jo...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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30:23
Sanctity of Life and Missions Fulfilled
In this follow-up episode, Collette Blackwelder shares the story of her husband’s kidney transplant and the sacred moments they shared with the family of the donor. His miraculous story teaches us to live a full life in return for the great gif...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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35:29
Infertility, Adoption, and the Potential for Parenthood
Collette Blackwelder became a first time mom at the age of 50 after a miraculous adoption. On this episode she shared her thoughts on infertility and how one can still be a parent though they may not have children of their own (12:35). She give...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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39:28
Sanctity in Death and Spiritual Homecomings
As a hospice nurse of 25 years, LeAnn Jackson has witnessed many sacred moments at the bedside of those passing from this life (10:02). These experiences have built a deep understanding of the sanctity of death, as well as a respect for "the gr...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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42:56
Inmates, Divine Potential, and Pepper
The Family Proclamation teaches that each soul has a divine nature and destiny. Jeff Carney works to uncover those divine natures in others by teaching Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits” to prison inmates. On this episode, Jeff shares what it was like ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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49:26
Society Menaces, Potential, and Parenthood
Logan Wilkes remembers what it was like to be a 30 year-old, unmarried “menace to society” and shares what NOT to say to those in the dating phase. “Too often we want to preach at people the importance of marriage and the importance of [parenth...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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40:57
Millennials, Family Connection, and Divine Purpose
What is your divine purpose on earth? Olivia Jewell, creator of the 21 Day Family Connection experiment, joins the podcast to discuss how she found her own divine purpose and how the Family Connection experiment began. Like many ot...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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29:20
Hello, My Name Is...
What's the impact of what we call ourselves - and allow others to name us as well? Listen in to our guest Cameron Maddox as he explains how he thinks everyone is trying to put a label onto someone else ... whether it's true or not (20:30). We d...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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30:39
Solemnly Proclaim, Reverence, and False Idols
We often gloss over the words “solemnly proclaim” in the opening paragraph of the Family Proclamation. Loren Marks, a BYU professor in the School of Family Life, joins the podcast to discuss the gravity of those words and how they should affect...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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36:54
Intentional Parenting: The Armor of God vs. Bubble Wrap
The Family Proclamation tells us that parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness. But with the world pulling us in so many directions, it can be easy to let that sacred duty slip down our priority list. Amanda D...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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51:02