(updated with better audio) Bonus Podcast: Margaret and Paul Toscano on Online Mormonism Today and Mormonism in the 90′s
Join Lindsay, Kaimi and Alyssa and guests Margaret and Paul Toscano as they discuss shifting dynamics and tensions within Mormonism today and yesterday. Margaret and Paul use the story of their own excommunications from the LDS church (during the September Six and after) as a springboard to set out a provocative set of ideas about the past, present, and potential future of the LDS community.
Related links:
Watch Margaret discuss here excommunication here. (Mostly on Part Two of the documentary).
Listen to Margaret’s Mormon Stories interview here.
7 thoughts on “(updated with better audio) Bonus Podcast: Margaret and Paul Toscano on Online Mormonism Today and Mormonism in the 90′s”
I wonder if an additional thing that has happened is that by instilling fear of open discussion in faithful members a taboo has been created not just of ‘fringe’ doctrine but of even quite central or standard doctrine? It seems that perhaps a general ignorance of what church doctrine even is has become the norm because any discussion is fraught with worry.
Wow. WOW! This was incredible. I have to say that everything the Toscano’s said was brilliant. Thanks for the great episode!!! I hope to hear them again.
I’ve been having trouble downloading this episode, as well as 9 and 10. Is that isolated? I’ve tried downloading them on iTunes just through the subscription, individually in the iTunes store, and individually here. Any thoughts? I think I might still be able to listen to them here on the site, but as I’m rarely sitting at my computer when I’m listening to them, I’d love to sort it out. Thanks!
This doesn’t directly deal with this episode,but with the podcast in general. There is a problem with downloading your episodes through Itunes; this problem does not exist with any of the other podcast to which I subscribe. With your podcasts, they will pause multiple times during the download and so I have to constantly hit the refresh button.
Interesting podcast! One thing that didn’t make sense to me as I was listening though, the contention was made that Elder Packer was the driving force behind the September 6 excommunications because others deferred to his seniority, but both President Hinckley and President Monson had more superiority than he did.
Thanks for the comments everyone! As far as downloading issues go, we are looking in to those. It might be a bandwidth issue. Please be patient and continue to support us! I’m still learning as I go, but I appreciate you letting me know. Thanks for listening!
Is it just me or does this podcast stop after 20 minutes? It stops at the same place whether I download it straight from the website, the iTunes podcast, or just hit the play button above. And just when it gets good about the Mark David Chapman stuff. I can’t wait for you to have the Toscanos back so I can get the rest of the story.
I wonder if an additional thing that has happened is that by instilling fear of open discussion in faithful members a taboo has been created not just of ‘fringe’ doctrine but of even quite central or standard doctrine? It seems that perhaps a general ignorance of what church doctrine even is has become the norm because any discussion is fraught with worry.
Wow. WOW! This was incredible. I have to say that everything the Toscano’s said was brilliant. Thanks for the great episode!!! I hope to hear them again.
I’ve been having trouble downloading this episode, as well as 9 and 10. Is that isolated? I’ve tried downloading them on iTunes just through the subscription, individually in the iTunes store, and individually here. Any thoughts? I think I might still be able to listen to them here on the site, but as I’m rarely sitting at my computer when I’m listening to them, I’d love to sort it out. Thanks!
This doesn’t directly deal with this episode,but with the podcast in general. There is a problem with downloading your episodes through Itunes; this problem does not exist with any of the other podcast to which I subscribe. With your podcasts, they will pause multiple times during the download and so I have to constantly hit the refresh button.
mike
Interesting podcast! One thing that didn’t make sense to me as I was listening though, the contention was made that Elder Packer was the driving force behind the September 6 excommunications because others deferred to his seniority, but both President Hinckley and President Monson had more superiority than he did.
Thanks for the comments everyone! As far as downloading issues go, we are looking in to those. It might be a bandwidth issue. Please be patient and continue to support us! I’m still learning as I go, but I appreciate you letting me know. Thanks for listening!
Is it just me or does this podcast stop after 20 minutes? It stops at the same place whether I download it straight from the website, the iTunes podcast, or just hit the play button above. And just when it gets good about the Mark David Chapman stuff. I can’t wait for you to have the Toscanos back so I can get the rest of the story.