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Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

The Latter Day Struggles Podcast addresses beliefs and issues within the LDS faith that are challenging to talk about but vital to discuss for those trying to navigate their relationship in or around the church. Valerie and her guests invite psychological maturity, theological health, and institutional integrity.

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339: Patriarchal Church Structures & Heightened Risk...

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2025/06/16

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: In-depth Exploration of Patriarchy & its Correlation to Violence & Abuse [Part VIIof X] In today's episode, Val & Nathan walk through the layered risk factors around spousal violence/abuse that married couples are exposed to when belonging to a formalized institutional patriarchal church. Reinforcement of male authority, inadequately trained clergy offering counseling services, isolation from external oversight/support, and tendencies to pr...

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337: Patriarchy & its Connection to LGBTQ+ Violence...

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2025/06/09

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: In-depth Exploration of Patriarchy & its Correlation to Violence & Abuse [Part V of X] In this episode Val & Nathan walk through a series of other very common communities where men-on-men violence is normalized--culminating in a discussion that shows clearly that it is not a coincidence that patriarchal structures enforce strict rules on both women & LGBTQ+ people for the same underlying reason. They will walk you through the "rul...

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335: Patriarchy and the Deeply Embedded "Female Fear...

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2025/06/02

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: In-depth Exploration of Patriarchy & its Correlation to Violence & Abuse [Part III of X] In this jaw-dropping episode (at least it was jaw-dropping for Val & Nath to prepare and produce) Val & Nathan talk about the "Female Fear Factory" which is a phrase intended to communicate the implicit rules that girls and women worldwide are taught to follow in order to be safe in this world where patriarchy is treated as a "given" that must be ma...

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333: Patriarchy & Harm: Proven Connections to Abuse &...

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2025/05/26

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: In-depth Exploration of Patriarchy and its Correlation to Violence & Abuse [Part I of X] In this opening episode of this incredibly important series, Val & Nathan offer an overview of what is to come in the episodes that follow. This series has been a labor of love for this couple who care deeply about their Latter-day Saint and surrounding loved ones and want to spread the word far and wide that all patriarchy is harmful but we live in day and...

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41:08

331: Why Very Few Shout: "The Emperor Has No Clothes!"

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2025/05/19

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Living in a World of Hypernormalization [Part I of II] In this episode Val shares an update about how she is processing the recent events of her and Nathan's forced resignation in the face of excommunication by looking at this both as a personal issue for them but also plays with the idea that they are playing a symbolic role in a much larger narrative that is unfolding and colliding in both conservative Christian AND conservative political spaces and ...

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329: The Official Faith Crisis Report: A Backstage...

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2025/05/12

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: The 21st Century LDS Church's Ongoing Struggle to Respond to the Realities of Faith & Trust Crisis [Part I of II] Join Val and friend, colleague and returned guest, Dr. Greg Prince as they talk about Greg's involvement in the profoundly important document "The Official Faith Crisis Report". A document that was the first of its kind, it compiled data about struggles in faith and trust that was sweeping the LDS church just after the turn of the centu...

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327: Jesus Eats with "Outcasts" to Embody that HE...

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2025/05/05

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Transcending Church Rules on the PathTowards Genuine Christlike Discipleship w/Russ Hinckley Part III of IV What do you think Jesus would desire that we focus on in our worship services and within our larger lives? In these last two episodes of this series Val invites Russ to share his thoughts on his "Christ Creed", or his "rewrite" of what he thinks Jesus would want his followers to focus on. In this episode they focus their conversation on Jes...

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🔒 326: People Never Leave Churches Drenched in Jesus...

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2025/05/02

Subscriber-only episode Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Transcending Church Rules on the Path Towards Genuine Christlike Discipleship w/Russ Hinckley Part II of IV People are leaving religion in higher numbers than ever before, especially following the Covid pandemic. Although there are many factors involved in this phenomenon, Russ and Valerie explore the possibility that people are not feeling that church invites or encourages deep inner transformation--and this is what they ...

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325: Why Jesus Likely Couldn't Care Less about Church...

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2025/04/28

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Transcending Church Rules on the Path Towards Genuine Christlike Discipleship w/Russ Hinckley Part I of IV Welcome to a beautiful series featuring guest author Russ Hinckley (who doesn't mind being referred to as Mr. Susan Hinckley of the "At Last She Said It" podcast) where Val and Russ explore his book "Beyond Belief" a radical reinterpretation of what Jesus likely would have those who gathered in his name focus on. In this episode Russ ...

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🔒 324: Office Hours: Shifting the Focus from Abortion...

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2025/04/25

Subscriber-only episode Send us a Positive Review! In this timely conversation Valerie tackles Elder Anderson's recent general conference talk on abortion. In one hour she goes from the macro issue of abortion itself and offers some thought-provoking concepts about NOT focusing on abortion and instead focusing on how abortion is the prevailing solution to unwanted pregnancy only because we live in a patriarchal society. She also proposes that LDS women have valid reason to feel unique a...

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323: Sometimes Love Uses a Microphone

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2025/04/21

Send us a Positive Review! In this episode Valerie is invited to be a guest on "Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt," a podcast where she shares many experiences leading to her choice to commit her career to the psychological and spiritual healing of those connected to her own Latter-day Saint faith tradition. Val shares some personal experiences, some of her reasons for beginning and staying in this nerve wracking space, about the ups and downs of the work she does. Mostly she shares her conviction t...

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🔒 322: How Rootwork Brings us to Deep Kinship in this...

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2025/04/18

Subscriber-only episode Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: A Look into the Minds of Creators of The Mother Tree & Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos [Part II of II] In this continuation of our conversation about modern Mormon feminist scholarship, Taylor and Kathryn riff about various schools of thought regarding the heavenly roll of a feminine divine in historical and contemporary Mormon scholarship and complicate these ideas with their own, connected to a potential heaven...

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321: The Feminine Divine in the Mormon Cosmos with...

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2025/04/14

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: A Look into the Minds of Creators of The Mother Tree & Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos [Part I of II] Why is my job the very best? Because I get to sit down with two of the kindest, more brilliant and beautiful souls out there--Kathryn Sonntag and Taylor Petrey-- to facilitate a conversation about all things modern Mormon feminism, scripture, symbology, and the feminine divine. The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisd...

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🔒 320: "Queering" the Garden Narrative in the Mormon...

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2025/04/11

Subscriber-only episode Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: A Deep Dive into the Fascinating Cosmos Found in Taylor Petrey's Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos [Part IV of IV] Here's one final mindblowing conversation that will definitely leave you thinking "I never thought of the garden narrative THAT way! In this episode Taylor and Val peruse the various and sundry ways that the Garden Narrative has been used to justify all manner of unhelpful theology and social and political...

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44:30

319: "Queering" Ideas about Heavenly Mother in the...

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2025/04/07

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: A Deep Dive into the Fascinating Cosmos Found in Taylor Petrey's Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos [Part III of IV] One definition of "queering" that Taylor uses in his book is to complicate or expand--and this episode does just that in the realm of the feminine divine. Buckle up as Taylor and Val walk through his fascinating ideas regarding what Latter Day Saints call Heavenly Mother. This episode addresses historical and current...

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🔒 318: "Queering" Ideas about the Godhead in the...

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2025/04/04

Subscriber-only episode Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: A Deep Dive into the Fascinating Cosmos Found in Taylor Petrey's Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos [Part II of IV] Get ready to have your mind blown just a little more as Taylor walks Val through more expansive ideas around a heaven that privileges "kinship" over all other types of covenant bonds and uses the deep and loving relationship within the Godhead as a model, opening doors of eternal connection that transcend ...

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317: Ideas on a Heaven Large Enough for All Loving...

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2025/03/31

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: A Deep Dive into the Fascinating Cosmos Found in Taylor Petrey's Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos [Part I of IV] In this episode Val and guest scholar and author Taylor Petrey set this series up by walking through the focus of Taylor's phenomenal new book, Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos. They set the stage to blow your mind in the many ways that an open-minded and close reading of scripture makes all kinds of space for a h...

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🔒 316: "Office Hours" Exclusive: When Faith Crisis...

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2025/03/28

Subscriber-only episode Send us a Positive Review! In this Office Hours live session, members of the Latter Day Struggles community are asking their questions and Valerie brings her encouraging responses. Since February is the month where love is celebrated, this conversation centers around marriage, partnership and navigating the sometimes tumultuous waters of maintaining close relationships during a faith expansion journey. Don’t lose heart! It really is possible to maintain love, pat...

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315: Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do

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2025/03/24

Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Valerie & Nathan Hamaker Forced Resignation from the LDS Church [Part III of III] In this final episode detailing the tough events of Val and Nathan's last year trying to collaborate with their local priesthood leaders, they share why they chose to resign their membership instead of experiencing a disciplinary counsel. They also explore the fear that some LDS leadership experiences with mental health workers and conclude with their proc...

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🔒 314: Devoted Listener/Supporter Q&A on Hamaker...

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2025/03/21

Subscriber-only episode Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: Valerie & Nathan Hamaker Forced Resignation from the LDS Church [Part II of III] Join Val & Nathan in this episode answering questions that came in from listeners following their public announcement regarding their forced resignation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints due to local priesthood leaders' inability to understand the nature of their work and the healing intent of their hearts. Thank you...

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