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Subscribe to the Salty Believer Unscripted on your favorite podcast app, or use these links: .” They were invited to tour the Layton Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in Layton, Utah. Prior to the tour, their Mormon guides asked them to watch the Mormon-produced video, “Between Heaven and Earth,” which can be found on YouTube. "Between Heaven and Earth" is a Mormon argument for the need and value of modern-day temples. By interviewing LDS theologians along with a loose Jewish studies instructor and an theological-liberal Harvard dean, Mormons make their uncon ..read more

Subscribe to the Salty Believer Unscripted on your favorite podcast app, or use these links: ) and the letter to Philadelphia ( ). They are still looking to see if indeed these seven letters are a chiasm. What do these letters bring to the bigger picture? How should we understand them today? Listen to this episode wherever you get podcasts or ..read more

Subscribe to the Salty Believer Unscripted on your favorite podcast app, or use these links: ) and the letter to Sardis ( ). They are still trying to determine if these letters form a chiasm. They note the connections between these two letters but more so the connections back to the Old Testament ..read more

My attitude is shifting, and joy is coming back. All it took was getting real about how a social media app changed the way I thought about relationships. I had to stop letting Facebook tell me I had to be anchored to past or unmeaningful relationships at the cost of those in the real world, in real life. I had to remember what being a social human means again. It turns out it's pretty good ..read more

Subscribe to the Salty Believer Unscripted on your favorite podcast app, or use these links: which are Jesus’ letters to Ephesus and Laodicea, respectively. Are there connections between these that may lead us to see a chiasm here? Or are these not connected in a chiasm? What is a chiasm? What is the meaning of these letters? Are there things here we can learn from for our churches today? They answer these and other questions in this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted. Listen to this episode of Salty Believer Unscripted wherever you listen to podcasts or ..read more

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I know my answer to the question posed by those two pastors. I also know my answer doesn't need to be anyone else's answer. Autonomous churches need to make their determinations autonomously. They need to choose if and how they partner with the SBC, if and how much they give to the voluntary funding program, and how they feel about it. Autonomous churches must be okay with other autonomous churches doing things differently unless they don't care about autonomy. If we're going to move past this challenging season, we need to look past our disagreements, make our determinations, and choose the p ..read more