Parrish The Thought

”If you’ve breathed a breath in this life then you have a story to tell” - Todd Hansen, host of The Story Trek.He is so right. Each one of us has a story to tell about our lives that can entertain, uplift, teach or inspire. There is only one of each of us and we can all be the wiser for hearing others’ stories.

Parrish The Thought is a society podcast hosted by Brian Keith Parrish, with 150 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Brian Keith Parrish hosts Parrish The Thought, a society show with 150 episodes published.

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  Episode #205

  Episode 205: Cale Strong | When Love Felt Like Judgment: My Painful Journey Leaving the LDS Church

  Jul 12, 20261h 14mS0

  <p>Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the show. </p> <p>CONTENT WARNING - The opinions of the host and our guests have not been sanitized or scientifically tested so please consume at your own risk.</p> <p>What happens when someone raised to believe they have all the answers discovers they're no longer sure of the questions? In this deeply personal and thought-provoking conversation, Cale Strong, shares the story behind one of the most difficult decisions of his life, walking away from the LDS Church only days after entering the Missionary Training Center. While...

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  Episode #205

  Episode 205: Cale Strong | When Love Felt Like Judgment: My Painful Journey Leaving the LDS Church

  Jul 12, 20261h 14m

  Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the show. CONTENT WARNING - The opinions of the host and our guests have not been sanitized or scientifically tested so please consume at your own risk. What happens when someone raised to believe they have all the answers discovers they're no longer sure of the questions? In this deeply personal and thought-provoking conversation, Cale Strong, shares the story behind one of the most difficult decisions of his life, walking away from the LDS Church only days after entering the Missionary Training Center. While many know his story through his father, Jeff Strong's book T orn: Why People We Love Are Leaving the Church and What We Can Learn from Them , this episode gives Cale the opportunity to tell his own story in his own words. Rather than attacking faith or defending disbelief, Cale explores the emotional, relational, and cultural realities that often accompany faith transitions. He reflects on feeling unheard, the unintended harm that can come from trying to "fix" people, and the difference between loving someone as they are versus seeing them as a project. Together, Brian and Cale discuss family relationships, missionary culture, agency, judgment, belonging, and what genuine Christlike compassion can or should look like, even when people reach very different conclusions. Whether you're firmly rooted in your faith, wrestling with difficult questions, or trying to better understand someone you love, this conversation offers an invitation to replace assumptions with curiosity and fear with empathy. CONTACT CALE Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cale_strong_music/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/cale.strong Email - cale.strong@gmail.com JEFF STRONG - TORN BOOK Website - https://www.tornbyjeffstrong.com/ #ParrishTheThoughtPodcast #FaithJourney #FaithTransition #HumanConnection #ChooseCuriosity #LeadWithLove #LDS #MeaningfulConversations #TornBook #JeffStrong #CaleStrong #LoveThyNeighbor

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  Episode #204

  Episode 204: Jeff Strong | Author of the book Torn - Why people we love are leaving the (LDS) church and what we can learn from them.

  Jun 17, 20261h 5mS0

  <p>Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the show. </p> <p>CONTENT WARNING - The opinions of the host and our guests have not been sanitized or scientifically tested so please consume at your own risk.</p> <p>Forty percent. That's roughly how many once-active Latter-day Saints have quietly slipped out the back of the chapel over the past quarter century according to one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted on Latter-day Saint disaffiliation, which surveyed more than 20,000 current and former members. It's the kind of statistic that turns Sunday dinners into minefields and...

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  Episode #204

  Episode 204: Jeff Strong | Author of the book Torn - Why people we love are leaving the (LDS) church and what we can learn from them.

  Jun 17, 20261h 5m

  Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the show. CONTENT WARNING - The opinions of the host and our guests have not been sanitized or scientifically tested so please consume at your own risk. Forty percent. That's roughly how many once-active Latter-day Saints have quietly slipped out the back of the chapel over the past quarter century according to one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted on Latter-day Saint disaffiliation, which surveyed more than 20,000 current and former members. It's the kind of statistic that turns Sunday dinners into minefields and makes "how's the family" a loaded question. A few days after his son entered MTC ( Missionary Training Center ), he'd gotten an unusually timed email from him. Before reading past the first paragraph, he knew that his son was coming home and that the church he'd raised him in was coming home with him. That's the moment that cracked open everything for he and his family. My guest is Jeff Strong, a former LDS (Mormon) bishop, mission president, BYU professor, and a man who spent thousands of hours turning his own family's "tectonic plate shift" into one of the most data-driven looks we have at why faithful Latter-day Saints walk away from the Church, in his book " Torn ." He's not here to hand you a five-step plan to bring anyone back into the fold. In fact, the plan itself might be the problem. Jeff makes the case that what's missing in a lot of these conversations isn't more certainty or better answers, it's curiosity. Somewhere along the way we traded asking questions for managing outcomes, and a perfectly manicured lawn of matching blades of grass, he says, was never the goal. The mess is. So stick around, because by the end of this one, you may walk away wanting to make curiosity great again. CONTACT JEFF Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tornbyjeffstrong/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/jeff.strong.522678 BOOKS, WEBSITES AND RESOURCES Website - https://www.tornbyjeffstrong.com/ . . #TornBook #JeffStrong #FaithJourney #LeavingTheChurch #LDSFaith #CuriosityOverCertainty #FaithAndFamily #ParrishTheThoughtPodcast #MakeCuriosityGreatAgain #ChurchAndCulture #Mormons #ExMormons

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  Episode #203

  Episode 203: Jill Burgon | From mom to therapist: a personal journey that is changing adoption support around the world.

  Mar 15, 202631 minS0

  <p>Ladies and gentlemen and whoever else is listening, welcome back to the show. </p> <p>CONTENT WARNING - The opinions of the host and our guests have not been sanitized or scientifically tested so please consume at your own risk.</p> <p>In this episode, we sit down with Jill Burgon, a clinical social worker who specializes in helping adoptive families navigate the unique emotional and behavioral challenges that can come with adoption. Jill’s path to becoming an adoption-focused therapist began with her own personal experience as an adoptive mother. After realizing there were basically zero tools or th...

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