Join us as we talk with cult expert Steven Hassan about how to help a loved one who believes in and follows the QAnon conspiracy cult. Questions we will address include:

• What is QAnon?
• Does QAnon qualify as a harmful cult?
• How is QAnon harming people, families, and our nation?
• How can you help a loved one who believes in and follows AQnon, or any other destructive cult?

Dr. Steven Hassan's Reddit AMA (Q&A) at QAnonCasualties entitled "How to Help People Involved in QAnon" can be found here.

Steven's main web site is: Freedom of Mind.

Books Mentioned in Today's Episode:

• Combating Cult Mind Control
• Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs
• The Cult of Trump

Cult Documentaries Mentioned in Today's Episode:

• • The Vow NXIVM Documentary Series
  • Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult
  • The Great Hack
  • The Social Dilemma
  • People You May Know
  • Going Clear
  • Wild, Wild Country
  • 4th Generation Warfare

Is it possible to stay active in the LDS Church in 2021 after....

....learning all of the problematic history... ....becoming an ally for LGBTQ Mormons... ...becoming a feminist... ...becoming an "intellectual Mormon"... and after losing one's orthodox faith?

More importantly, why would anyone WANT to?

In Part 1 of my two-part interview with dear friend and faith transitions coach Jana Spangler, Jana told us the story of her Mormon faith journey, which includes:

• Battling with perfectionism as an LDS teen and young adult.
• Feeling broken and inadequate as a single Mormon woman attending the University Utah, struggling to meet the church's standards of "worthiness."
• Being threatened with an LDS Disciplinary Council be a well-meaning Mormon bishop, and how that actually HELPED turn Jana's life around at the time.
• Finding and marrying Rob - who "checked all the Mormon boxes" at the time.
• Batting with infertility.
• Experiencing self-doubt and depression as a Mormon Mom.
• How Jana's passion for self-improvement and retreats/workshops led to a Mormon faith crisis.
• Jana's shifting views of Christ's atonement, which include absolute, unconditional love.
• Jana's courage to share her testimony struggles with her Holladay, Utah ward and stake.
• How untraditional Mormon podcast hosts, authors, and organizations (such as Bill Reel, Gina Colvin, Dan Wotherspoon, John Dehlin, Thomas Wirthlin McConkie, Sunstone, etc.), along with a supportive husband and understanding church leaders, helped Jana find a way to stay ACTIVE in the LDS Church.
• What factors led Jana to decide to stay active in the LDS Church...for now.

In Part 2, Jana provides a more detailed framework for how others can find a way to remain active in the LDS Church if they so desire, inspired by the works of Richard Rohr and James Fowler (among others).