Teaching Sexuality to LDS Youth & Children | An Interview with Dina Alexander
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe Email | RSS | MoreHow young is too young to have conversations with your children about intimacy and human sexuality? On this podcast, we get the answer from Dina Alexander, President and Founder of Educate and...
How to Support Gay Members in Your LDS Ward – Part 1
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe Email | RSS | MoreFew topics are as emotionally charged or require more sensitivity than same-sex attraction. This complex matter touches on the things we care about most: our basic humanity, our relationship to...
How to Teach Primary Children About the Dangers of Pornography | An Interview With Kristen Jenson
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe Email | RSS | MoreKristen Jenson is the author of Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids. It is her mission to immunize your children against the destructive and addictive dangers of...
Articulating Problems Will Motivate Solutions | “Come Down” And Lead
“Come down”—this is a phrase very commonly found in the scriptures. It is often used in the context of a request to a leader—requesting they “come down” from their mountain or from whatever state they are in.
How To Make Ward Council A Revelatory Experience…Or Any Other Meeting
Meetings in the Church—it’s a love/hate thing. Rarely do people enjoy attending meetings but we still discover ways to plan more meetings.
This may come across as a blunt message, but meetings are either well done or toxic and it’s important that leaders get them right. How you run a meeting has a dramatic influence on how you are loved as a leader. If you run a good meeting, those who follow you will be more willing to serve you. If you run a bad meeting, the only thing to increase is the eye-rolling.
Scouting in the LDS Church | Interview with Director of LDS-BSA
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe Email | RSS | MoreMark Francis is the director of LDS-BSA Relations, which is a branch of the Boy Scouts of America that strives to maintain a positive and helpful relationship with the LDS church. In this...
How I Lead the Primary | Jessica Mortensen
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe Email | RSS | MoreJessica Mortensen and her family live in Meridian, Idaho just west of Boise. She is married and has 4 children between the ages of 13 and 7. Jessica has been serving as the Primary President for...
You Were Not Called to Fix It | Recognizing Grace in Your Calling
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe Email | RSS | More Do you remember the euphoria you felt when you were extended the call to serve in a leadership position? You finally get to pick the counselors you want and you can finally apply your ideas....
Trust Must Come Before Leadership
Before I graduated college I had a variety of uncomfortable jobs. One of those jobs was selling compliance posters (the poster you see hanging in break rooms explaining federal and state laws like minimum wage). I would start my day with about 10 posters and knock...
