Ho Ho Ho and happy birthday Jesus! Celebrate all the Holidays this and learn the reason for the season by listening to Scott and Matt discuss how grateful Dallin H. Oaks is to get Holiday cards. Cuz he is. He really really is. As long as they are the right ones.
Listen in as Brother Jake gives a poetic year-end review of the goings-on of Mormonism, along with some suggestions for holiday purchases to brighten the holiday mood. All items available here: http://www.askbrotherjake.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html
Glenn reflects on the role that Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender issues played in his life in coming to an understanding of what it really means to follow the teachings of Jesus, and what it really means to not. In the process, he hopefully finds a few things to actually be thankful for approaching this Thanksgiving 2015.
IOT listener Sage conducts man-(and-women)-on-the-street interviews at the LDS Mass Resignation event held in Salt Lake City on Saturday, November 14, 2015. Thanks Sage!
How is this new LDS policy impacting real lives of real people? Why would a gay couple even want their children to be involved in the Mormon church? And how does a gay person even have children in the first place? Scott conducts two interviews with men whose families are directly impacted by the LDS Church’s Children Alienation and Exclusion policy. Listen in as the Infants once again do their darnedest to scoop their big tall buddy, John Dehlin.
Listen in as the Infants answer questions from reddit users. Yes, it really is exactly as fascinating as it sounds. Click here to read all of the questions and answers from the Reddit AMA: Reddit Ask Me Anything/
Do you love the Mormon Church? Do you love their new totally Christ-like policy of alienation and exclusion for children of certain kinds of abominable parents? Do you love the magical songs of Disney? Do you love Infants on Thrones’ sing-a-long smack downs? Well, if you love all that stuff right there, then this is the episode you have never known you were always waiting for your entire life. Enjoy! Special thanks to Craig Keeling for the album art. Edit: The songs are now individually availabl...
Tom is joined by his brave and excellent wife to interview another couple, Neal & Naomi, and discuss some of the difficulties of living in a mixed faith marriage. Neal & Naomi’s podcast Unequally Yoked can be found here: http://unequally-yoked.net
What’s worse than murder and rape? The only sin so powerful it punishes innocent children for the “sins” of their parents even if, you know, that doesn’t sound like Mormon Doctrine… In this episode, Bob, Matt, Randy, and Scott discuss the new policy changes from the Mormon Church that set apart homosexuality as a sin unlike any other. Children of same-sex married people must now be 18 to be baptized and must disavow their parents’ marriage. Follow along as we smackdown the changes to LDS Handboo...
The Infants will be conducting an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit this upcoming Monday, Nov 9th, at 10:30pm ET. Go to the link below to send us questions, and log in with your reddit account on Monday to interact with the Infants. We will also be recording our behind the scenes commentary and responses to your questions, and publish that as a future episode. So help us make this a nominally interesting experience by giving us some nominally interesting questions. Edit: Tom has confirmed that he ...
Three years ago, the still-learning-how-to-walk Infants released an episode called FEAR. In as close to a RadioLab style as we could muster, we explored the world of ouija boards, evil spirits, night terrors, lucid dreaming, and a hodgepodge of other somewhat-fear-related topics. Some of that original episode was even pretty good. Today Matt and Glenn reflect on that experience and present to you a massively edited version. And don’t miss today’s special easter egg. Because not everyone apprecia...
John, Scott, Randy, Jake, and Matt Smack down Dan Peterson’s recent blog post about the doctrinal “thin gruel” the Community of Christ offers its members, and what it reveals about the myopia of the LDS view. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2015/10/dissatisfied-liberal-mormons-find-refuge-in-the-community-of-christ.html
The Infants review two movies about belief: Bill Mahr’s “Religulous” and Vikram Gandhi’s “Kumare.”
Tough weekend? Experiencing a little PCSD? (Post-Conference Stress Disorder) Allow newly anointed Ex-mo Meditation Guru Tom Perry to take you through a short relaxation exercise that should have you feeling better about the world in no time.
What would will the world look like if when everyone everywhere were is Mormon? Look no further than BYU campus living! In this episode, Bob, Glenn, Jake, Matt, and Randy smack down the BYU Honor Code.
Have you ever wanted to laugh during a prayer? Have you ever wondered what Glenn sounded like as a 19-year-old missionary full of missionary zeal (or at least full of something)? Have you ever wanted to hear Bob sing all about his faith crisis (or, even better, have you ever wanted to comment on Bob’s singing cred?) Well, if any of those describe your particularly uncomfortable itch, then today’s Froback Friday episode is definitely gonna scratch it. And then some.
Do you love Women? Do you believe that Women should have equal rights guaranteed under the law? Did you know that the United States of America does not guarantee this in the US Constitution today? Forty years ago, long before Prop 8, the Mormon church used fear-based tactics and political pressure to block the ERA – the Equal Rights Amendment that congress passed in 1972 – which would have added the following simple language to the US Constitution: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be ...
In the 3rd installment of the ongoing series, Carl gets an apologetic visitor to his new apartment. To listen to the first episode of Carl the Casual Satanist, click here: http://infantsonthrones.com/carl-the-casual-satanist-episode-1-carl-throws-a-party/ To listen to the second, click here: http://infantsonthrones.com/carl-the-casual-satanist-episode-2-the-wedding/...
What happens when the real Bigfoot meets a real Evil Spirit?
Tanner, a blogger at “Zelph on the Shelf” (great name, huh?) joins Jake, Matt, Randy and Scott to talk about End Times and Latter Days and Preppers and all that good stuff.
In this Froback Friday debut, the Infants discuss Randy’s awesome minisode “Homachnaphobia” — you know… where Randy compares his irrational fear of homosexuality to his irrational fear of spiders. As one does.
Infants on Thrones commemorates their three years of podcasting by talking about themselves for a change. Listen in and try to keep all eight voices straight as Bob, Glenn, Jake, John, Matt, Randy, Scott and Tom talk about minisodes, and pseudo-fame, and ideas for the future of the podcast, and nothing even possibly irreverent or offensive to anyone else in any way whatsoever.
Have you ever wondered what John C. Bennett had to say about his time in Nauvoo, his excommunication from the church, or his relationship with Joseph Smith? Have you ever wanted to read all those testimonials about treasure digging and folk magic in “Mormonism Unvailed” but just found that old book too dense and long and daunting? Have you ever been interested in early Mormon speculative theology that tries to reconcile faith with science and ends up with far out sci-fi Battlestar Galactic type ...
Tom and Glenn are joined with Kim and Adam who are both therapists to discuss Jamie’s listener essay titled, “How our Marvelous Mormon Therapist saved our marriage.”
Scott, Matt, and John discuss the importance of community with Micah, Nick, Alison, and Steve, who also discuss the motivation behind their website MormonSpectrum.org
Little Apologists aren’t the only ones who can make kinda sorta gymnastic-type little apologies. In this special minisode, Glenn explains the reason for the appearance and sudden disappearance of last Sunday’s mysterious episode “The Little Apologist.”
Glenn projects many of his Mormon-formed biases onto the One True Band: The Beatles, and compares his changing view of The Beatles to his changing view of The Mormon Church.
Jake geeks out over an exchange of blog posts between Baylor historian Philip Jenkins and Mormon apologist Bill Hamblin that gets at the heart of Book of Mormon apologetics. Hold on to your Scotch-taped glasses, folks–it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. Blogs referenced: Outliers and Iconoclasts How Consensus Changes Mormons and New World History Centrality of Hermeneutics Epistemology and Nihilism...
Suffering from stone fatigue yet? Well… suffer no more (or suffer a lot more) as Jake, John, Matt, and Randy smack down the recent Mormon Ensign article “ Joseph the Seer .” ( Spoiler Alert: they actually all thought the article was pretty good) And if any of you are wondering “should I really listen to this episode?” John Hamer says yes.
In order to fill out the complete story of Joseph the Seer and his recently unveiled seer-stone, John, Glenn, Matt, Randy, and Jake dip into the rich historical record and read witness accounts of Joseph’s contemporaries, in a documentary minisode that “De-Romances the Stone.”
