Latter Day Bridge Builders

Striving to build bridges between active Latter-day Saints (Mormons), those who have left the faith, and everyone in between. Join Mitch as he discusses different sides of church culture in a fair, unbiased and respectful way for all parties. This podcast is a place where anyone with ties to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is welcome. Non-members of the church are also invited.

Latter Day Bridge Builders is a religion podcast hosted by Mitch Crosgrove, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Mitch Crosgrove hosts Latter Day Bridge Builders, a religion show with 22 episodes published.

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  Latter Day Bridge Builders

  #045 -- He Played Lucifer in the Temple. Then He Left the Church. (ft. Corbin Allred)

  Aug 16, 202657 min

  He played Lucifer in the LDS temple endowment film for a decade. Then, after 43 years as a member, Corbin Allred left the LDS Church — and he hasn't necessarily been quiet about it. In this episode, actor and ER medical provider Corbin Allred joins Mitch in St. George, UT to talk about what it's like to be recognized as "the guy who played Satan," why he refuses to "leave it alone" after leaving the church, and the strange paradox of feeling spiritual confirmation to walk away from something he'd believed his whole life. We get into: - Being recognized (and sometimes feared) by patients who saw him in the temple film - Responding to criticism that he "baits" people online - What he regrets about how he left, and who he's really talking to when he posts - Agnostic atheism vs. atheism, and why "I know" is a loaded phrase - The paradox of feeling the same spiritual confirmation point two different directions - Nihilism, death, and finding peace without certainty Links and other show notes : Follow Corbin: https://www.instagram.com/thecorbinallred Corbin's IMDB page: https://tinyurl.com/2nu9knum David Eagleman: A New Look at Religion (Possibilianism): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LENqnjZGX0A The Egg -- A Short Story by Andy Weir | Kurzgesagt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI This is Your Brain on God | Michael Ferguson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocuqguH1OIw More episodes & links: https://linktr.ee/latterdaybridgebuilders Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latterdaybridgebuilders TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@latterdaybridgebuilders☕ Support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LDSBridgebuilders Merch Store:https://ldbb-shop.fourthwall.com

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  #044 -- "Everything Is Polygamy": A Historian on Mormonism's Founding Trauma w/ Linda Hamilton

  Aug 9, 20261h 9m

  Historian, author of The Fourth Wife, and grad student Linda Hamilton joins Juliet for a deep dive into Mormon polygamy: how it actually worked, who it actually harmed, and why it's still baked into LDS theology today. They cover the poverty most plural wives lived in, the myth that polygamy was created to protect widows, the chaos of Nauvoo and Winter Quarters (including Joseph Smith's sealings to already-married women), the rise of Joseph Smith polygamy-denialism online, and why Linda can't get through the Doctrine and Covenants in Sunday School anymore. Linda's debut novel, The Fourth Wife, is out now. Her next book, The Glass Looker, about seer woman Sally Chase, releases for pre-order soon. Purchase The Fourth Wife here: https://a.co/d/01B5gEE5Find Linda: https://www.instagram.com/lindahamiltonwriter Exponent II blog: https://exponentii.org/blog-home/# Substack: https://lindahamiltonwriter.substack.com/ More episodes & links: https://linktr.ee/latterdaybridgebuilders Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latterdaybridgebuilders TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@latterdaybridgebuilders☕ Support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LDSBridgebuilders Merch Store:https://ldbb-shop.fourthwall.com

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  #043 -- Two LDS Converts: Why We Joined (And Why One of Us Left) w/ Stevie Johnson

  Aug 2, 202657 min

  Two Converts, Two Paths: Temple Experiences, Polygamy, and Finding Your Place as an Outsider Mitch and Ashton are out this week, so Stevie takes the host chair alongside guest Juliet for a rare two-convert conversation. Both joined the Church as teenagers (Stevie at 19, Juliet at 16), and both have since gone through a faith crisis, landing in very different places: Stevie is still active and reconstructing her faith, Juliet has stepped away and now identifies as deconstructing/disaffiliated. They dig into audience-submitted questions covering: Why they joined despite real concerns about prophets, Joseph Smith, and family pushback Their first time inside a temple: the culture shock, the "unremarkable" vs. "overwhelming" range of first impressions, and Juliet's "sandbox on a beach" metaphor for how her spiritual experiences have been recontextualized rather than erased Serving as temple workers, including baptistry and sealing-room escort duties, and the practical advice they both got to space out receiving an endowment from getting sealed Polygamy: how each of them made sense of it as converts, and why treating polygamist women (past and present) as simply brainwashed misses their own agency and reasoning Whether converts ever feel like they've "made it," and how never quite fitting the mold shaped both of their trajectories A candid, generous conversation between two women who joined the same church from very different directions and still found a lot of common ground. Stevie's first interview on LDBB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWRFkwwQw7U&t=274s Stevie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/s.t.e.v.i.e_j/ More episodes & links: https://linktr.ee/latterdaybridgebuilders Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latterdaybridgebuilders TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@latterdaybridgebuilders☕ Support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LDSBridgebuilders Merch Store: https://ldbb-shop.fourthwall.com

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  #042 -- The Viral Video That Made Mormons Uncomfortable w/ Abi Finny

  Jul 26, 202654 min

  Abi Finny (@abi.finny) joins Juliet, Ashton, and Mitch to talk about the viral "temple to Taco Bell" video that got her labeled too crass by some and celebrated by others; and why a married Latter-day Saint talking openly about sex still makes people uncomfortable. As a nurse, Abi breaks down why comprehensive sex ed and body literacy matter regardless of your relationship status, and gets into purity culture, the pressure to be pretty but not know it, self-love vs. conceit, and the "check-mark" version of faithfulness (mission, temple marriage, etc.) that can leave you feeling disconnected from God anyway. She also talks about her "car conversations" series interviewing people across the belief spectrum, and why she'd rather build mutual respect than "flirt to convert." Follow Abi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abi.finny More episodes & links: https://linktr.ee/latterdaybridgebuilders Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latterdaybridgebuilders TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@latterdaybridgebuilders☕ Support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LDSBridgebuilders Merch Store:https://ldbb-shop.fourthwall.com

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  #041 -- An Evangelical's Guide to the Restoration (ft. Steven Pynakker)

  Jul 25, 20261h 4m

  What do Latter-day Saints and Evangelicals actually have in common and where do things go sideways? In this episode, Mitch and Ashton sit down with Steven Pynakker of Mormon Book Reviews, an evangelical who has spent five years deeply immersed in the world of the Latter-day Saint Restoration. Steven shares why he considers himself pro-atheist, what he thinks drives people from Mormonism straight to atheism, and why he believes an unchallenged faith is a weak one. Ashton shares a meaningful personal experience with evangelical students at Biola University that reframed how he sees interfaith connection. And the three of them dig into the surprisingly wide and messy world of Restoration sects, from the Bickertonites to the Fundamentalists, and what it means to build bridges not just between faiths, but within the Restoration itself. Steven's email: mormonbookreviews@gmail.com More episodes & links: https://linktr.ee/latterdaybridgebuilders Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/latterdaybridgebuilders TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@latterdaybridgebuilders☕ Support the podcast: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/LDSBridgebuilders Merch Store:https://ldbb-shop.fourthwall.com

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