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Study and FaithFeminism, polygamy, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with Dr. Valerie M. HudsonWelcome to the CES Letters podcast! Today, Eastin M. Hartzell is joined by Dr. Valerie Hudson. She discusses feminism, polygamy, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! Make sure to continue your study here:CES Letters article: https://www.cesletters.org/post/polygamy-doctrine-and-misunderstandingsSquare two journal: https://squaretwo.orgThe Two Trees by Valerie Hudson: https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2010/the-two-trees2024-12-1959 min
In Her Image: Finding Heavenly Mother in Scripture, Scholarship, the Arts, Mythology & Everyday Life139. Our Heavenly Mother: Embracing a Full Theology with McArthur Krishna and Bethany Brady SpaldingIn this enlightening episode of In Her Image, host Jessica Woodbury dives into a profound conversation with Bethany Brady Spalding and McArthur Krishna about the role of Heavenly Mother in Latter-day Saint theology and the deep, often overlooked, impact of acknowledging Her in doctrine and personal worship. They discuss the disconnect between church teachings and member practices, and how integrating a more holistic view of Heavenly Parents can transform personal spirituality and church culture. With inspiring personal stories, Bethany and MacArthur share their experiences of bringing Heavenly Mother into daily life and teaching. They explore how recognizing Her role a...2024-10-271h 32
SquareTwoWomen, Power, And Authority, And The Church: We All Know More Than We Are SayingTwo sets of keys, turned jointly and unitedly in mutual purpose, is what we should be envisioning when we think of our Heavenly Parents and Their work together.2024-05-1245 minSquareTwoWhy Heavenly Mother Is Essential For Women Understanding Their Eternal DestinyGeneral Conference April 2022 confirmed Heavenly Mother is our doctrine. Further, it was stated that the specifics of the Church’s doctrine on Heavenly Mother could be found in the Gospel Topics Essay. This was exciting!2024-02-1832 minSquareTwoThe Octopus And The Doctrine Of DreamsDreams are highly valued as a source of revelation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but do we have a clear doctrine on dreams?2024-02-1118 minSquareTwoHas Heavenly Mother Distanced Herself From This World?As a teen convert to the Church, I was taught that we have a Heavenly Mother, but She was being protected by Heavenly Father from the fallen-ness of our world and so we did not pray or speak about Her. The idea, as I understood it, was that if no one thought or spoke about Her, somehow She would be protected. How an immortal, all-powerful goddess could stand in need of protection was never explained to me. Even my teenaged convert self knew that was hooey.2024-02-0445 min
132 Problems: Revisiting Mormon Polygamy80: The Feminine, The Matrimonial Order and the Ordinances of the Flesh w/Gwendolyn WynePlease consider supporting this podcast:
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Church news article about the non-Latter-day Saint biography on Joseph Smith Jr t...2023-11-181h 53
Exploring the Divine FeminineE44 The Matriarchal Order Part IISend us a text#matriarch #patriarchalorder #womanhood #motherofallliving #mothereve #sacraments #ordinances #priesthoodThe Matriarchal Order--which sits alongside the Patriarchal Order--can be viewed (in part) as pertaining to the ordinances of the flesh. There are keys, signs, tokens, covenants, and ordinances that are under the eternal priesthood of the woman. We are not used to referring to ourselves as Priestesses outside of the temple, nor to the Priestesshood as it pertains to our mission as women. In this first part of a two part episode I will be sharing and reviewing a fascinating essay...2023-09-1825 min
Dear Daughters of GodDear Daughters of God - Episode 6 - "Going Forward with Faith"Have you wondered about the significance of the human body and spirit together? What does the Savior, Jesus Christ's experience on this earth, teach us about the importance of embodiment? Tune in as we explore Savannah Eccles Johnston's piece "Embodiment of a Core Doctrine" to learn more about our roles as women in the Plan of Salvation. The full article is found on Squaretwo.orgThanks for listening! I'm on Instagram as deardaughtersofgod. Follow me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/invites/contact/?i=1iyjqx0cq4kbk&utm_content=qr66nqv 2023-09-1345 minExploring the Divine FeminineE43 The Matriarchal Order Part 1Send us a text#matriarch #patriarchalorder #womanhood #motherofallliving #mothereve #sacraments #ordinances #priesthoodThe Matriarchal Order--which sits alongside the Patriarchal Order--can be viewed (in part) as pertaining to the ordinances of the flesh. There are keys, signs, tokens, covenants, and ordinances that are under the eternal priesthood of the woman. We are not used to referring to ourselves as Priestesses outside of the temple, nor to the Priestesshood as it pertains to our mission as women. In this first part of a two part episode I will be sharing and reviewing a fascinating essay...2023-09-1125 minSquareTwoEmbodiment As A Core DoctrineEmbodiment is one of the two great doctrines restored by the First Vision. When Joseph Smith entered the Sacred Grove in 1820, he learned two great truths contrary to Trinitarian Christianity. First, he learned that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father are separate beings. Hence, we do not believe in the Trinity but in the Godhead.2023-09-0421 min
Unleashing Sister Saints19. New Research on Perceptions of Heavenly MotherA team of researchers at BYU—Amber Majeske, Sarah Coyne, Chelom Leavitt, and Alice Long— just published an article titled “Your Mother and Mine: Perceptions of Heavenly Mother Among Latter-day Saints” in the online journal, SquareTwo. You can find the article at squaretwo.org. In this episode, I wanted to share some of their findings and a few of my own insights. It is interesting research.2022-12-3010 minSquareTwoThe Despairing Historicism of Latter-day DoomersA strange dynamic sometimes animates conversations on the subject when certain members of the Church take part. For example, someone mentions a recent increase in violent crimes in their city. The hypothetical Church member involved in the discussion, upon hearing this, might shake his head and say something like, “Christ is coming back soon.” Others in the conversation usually will mumble some sort of agreement and drop the point.2022-12-1219 minSquareTwoApostasy And AbuseApostasy from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has become increasingly common in recent years. I wish to say a few words about how the apostasy of a close family member has impacted my life.2022-12-0523 min
Cwic Media- LDS Podcast / Latter-day SaintsCan BYU Still Live By Its Mission?BYU Professor Ralph Hancock On BYU's Dilemna Dr. Hancock has been at BYU for over 30 years and has seen an increased focus on a secular objective. Just how compatible is BYU's Mission Statement with becoming the "Harvard of the West?" Why has BYU made this progression toward these academic, secular ideologies? How does BYU move toward fulfilling its mission when they seem to be moving toward the establishment of higher education? Toward the "Religion of Academia?" Those given stewardship of BYU talk of a "gospel methodology" on campus. What...2022-11-261h 15SquareTwoSeeking The Matrimonial OrderIn the temple we are taught that we must enter into a specific order to claim our divine inheritance: the Holy Order of Matrimony. Might this be the holiest Order of God, the one which Priest- and Priestesshood are patterned after? Heaven would then be governed by an order which consists of Priestesshood and Priesthood unified; an order in which complementary physical and spiritual ordinances of birth, awakening, attachment, and oneness are the means by which progression occurs.2022-10-3044 minSquareTwoA Framework For SufferingThroughout mankind’s existence, and especially during times of crisis, conflict, and confusion such as we see now with COVID and the war in Ukraine, one universal question seems to echo the loudest across time and space: “If there is a loving God, why is there so much suffering?!”2022-10-0937 minIn Her Image: Finding Heavenly Mother in Scripture, Scholarship, the Arts, Mythology & Everyday Life61. The Mother in LDS Theology with Dr. Val Larsen, Part 2Jess and Dr. Val Larsen continue their conversation on how Dr. Larsen first started contemplating Heavenly Mother and what he has discovered through careful reading of the Book of Mormon and studying associated historical works. He suggests that Lehi and Nephi, along with Joseph Smith, received and worked to restore the pre-deuteronomistic, old religion of Abraham in their respective dispensations. As Dr. Larsen and contemporary scholars have found, this ancient religion believed in a divine Council of the Gods, including Heavenly Mother, Heavenly Father, and their Son Jesus Christ. This belief in separate embodied, glorified members of a Heavenly...2022-09-2544 minSquareTwoThe Matriarchal Order And The Ordinances Of The FleshOne of the most glorious truths that has been restored in this fullness of times is the knowledge that men and women are meant to be equal partners, uniting with Christ in our complementary differences to fulfill the measure of our creation.2022-09-1945 minIn Her Image: Finding Heavenly Mother in Scripture, Scholarship, the Arts, Mythology & Everyday Life60. The Mother in LDS Theology with Dr. Val Larsen: Part 1In the previous episode, episode 59, Jess read "First Visions and Last Sermons: Affirming Divine Sociality, Rejecting the Greater Apostasy", written by Dr. Val Larsen and published in 2020. In this week's episode, Jess interviews Dr. Larsen on how he first started contemplating Heavenly Mother and what he has discovered through careful reading of the Book of Mormon and studying associated historical works. He suggests that Lehi and Nephi, along with Joseph Smith, received and worked to restore the pre-deuteronomistic, old religion of Abraham in their respective dispensations. As Dr. Larsen and contemporary scholars have found, this ancient religion believed in...2022-09-1843 minSquareTwoThe Great Global Birth StrikeWhen I teach my graduate course where we examine the ways that the lives and choices of women affect international relations, my students always have a moment of clarity near the end. They reach a point where they passionately wonder how it is that women, having obtained civil rights and property rights more or less worldwide, still cannot bring about equal standing with men and a cessation of male violence against them.2022-09-1128 minSquareTwoBuilding Zion - A Practical ApproachAs far as we know, only two religious societies have successfully built Zion: the City of Enoch and the people in the Americas after Christ’s visit. There are good reasons for this paucity of perfect societies: building a Zionistic society of “one heart and one mind” requires sacrifice and a proactive attitude from every individual towards living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is not for the faint hearted.2022-09-0530 minSquareTwoTemple Types and Sacred Blood: How divine patterns guide young women to ChristThe symbolism of the blood of the womb echoes in the ordinances of salvation, temples ancient and modern, and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. As we rediscover sacred feminine truths that have been neglected through the ages, we develop a clearer understanding of women and their distinctive purpose in the exaltation of mankind.2022-09-0456 minSquareTwoEve and Her Mother: The Importance of the Female Gaze in Our ArtThe male gaze, I assert, has hovered over the world of women like the giant eye of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings.2022-04-1720 minSquareTwoGoddessessFor some time I have been curious about ideas of what a woman is, and where those ideas have come from. I have also been fascinated by the images of ancient goddesses, and wondered how their images have influenced thoughts about women through the ages and whether goddess images have any influence on how women are seen today by others and themselves.2022-04-1716 minSquareTwoOpening The Pandora's Box Of Polygamy In Utah, 2020I ask that question especially of the orthodox CoJC members, of which there are many, in that legislature. What were they thinking when they voted for this disastrous bill? Were they dreaming of their polygamous mansions above? Or somehow vindicating their polygamous ancestors? Did they think of themselves as heroic ark-steadiers preparing for the Second Coming?2021-03-2335 minSquareTwoEmbodied Sociality as the Meaning of DivinityWhat would happen . . . if we thought that matter is more like the fields of energy that animate the whole cosmos rather than incredibly small particles held together by external forces? What would happen if we thought of matter as the stuff that makes relationships possible, including our relationship to God?2021-03-2232 minSquareTwoHarlots And The Great And Abominable ChurchAs a child with limited exposure to blatant evil, in my perspective, a harlot was the pinnacle of wickedness. I'm not sure if I was ever explicitly taught this in church, but this term was used to describe women who preyed on men with their insatiable lust. This fits well with another false concept I learned that when a woman falls from grace, she falls farther than any man ever can, because she is inherently purer.2021-03-2213 minSquareTwoWomen Deaconesses In The Primitive ChurchThat women served as deaconesses in the early church is not really in dispute. Paul writes about women deaconesses as early as the sixth decade, about 30 years after the death of Christ. The presumed earliest mention of women deaconesses is in Romans 16:1, where Paul specifically refers to Phoebe as a deacon, though in English the word is changed to read “servant.”2021-03-2216 min
Women Archives | FAIRFAIR Voice Podcast #28: Valerie Hudson on Women and the Priesthood
Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She has previously taught at Brigham Young, Northwestern, and Rutgers universities. Her research foci include foreign policy analysis, security studies, gender and international relations, and methodology. Hudson’s articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, Journal of Peace Research, American Political Science Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis. She is the author or editor of several bo...2021-02-0748 min
Latter-day Saint FAIR-CastFAIR Voice Podcast #28: Valerie Hudson on Women and the Priesthood
Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She has previously taught at Brigham Young, Northwestern, and Rutgers universities. Her research foci include foreign policy analysis, security studies, gender and international relations, and methodology. Hudson’s articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, Journal of Peace Research, American Political Science Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis. She is the author or editor of several bo...2021-02-0748 minGender Issues Archives | FAIRFAIR Voice Podcast #28: Valerie Hudson on Women and the Priesthood
Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She has previously taught at Brigham Young, Northwestern, and Rutgers universities. Her research foci include foreign policy analysis, security studies, gender and international relations, and methodology. Hudson’s articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, Journal of Peace Research, American Political Science Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis. She is the author or editor of several bo...2021-02-0748 minMarriage Archives | FAIRFAIR Voice Podcast #28: Valerie Hudson on Women and the Priesthood
Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H.W. Bush Chair at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She has previously taught at Brigham Young, Northwestern, and Rutgers universities. Her research foci include foreign policy analysis, security studies, gender and international relations, and methodology. Hudson’s articles have appeared in such journals as International Security, Journal of Peace Research, American Political Science Review, and Foreign Policy Analysis. She is the author or editor of several bo...2021-02-0748 min
To Whom Shall We Go? PodcastLatter-Day Saint Feminist an Interview w/ Valerie Hudson CasslerToday we are joined by Valerie Hudson Cassler. She is currently a University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M and is the co-founder of SquareTwo.org. In 2010 Valerie gave a groundbreaking talk at the FAIR Mormon conference called "The Two Trees" that discusses issues such as: how Eve didn't sin in the garden, a deeper symbolism behind what the two trees in the garden represent, Heavenly Mother, and the meanings of Patriarchy and Matriarchy. In this interview, we discuss her conversion story, the talk she gave at the FAIR Mormon conference, the meaning of Patriarchy and...2021-01-2142 minSquareTwoHidden In Plain View- Mother In Heaven In ScriptureHeavenly Mother is prominently present in scripture. She plays all the roles we would expect a divine mother to play. While her presence has been obscured by the loss of plain and precious parts of original texts, her extensive involvement in the lives of her children is nevertheless still apparent if the scriptures are closely read with attention to symbols and surrogates. As the modern Zeitgeist impels us to look for the feminine divine in the scriptural canon, voices speaking from the dust—especially the Book of Mormon—providentially give us background information necessary to find our divine Mother hidden in p...2020-02-111h 54SquareTwoThe Two Churches Of ApostasyIf the center path—the straight and narrow one—is the true and safe path each LDS member is enjoined by the Savior to follow, then these other two paths, one slightly to the right and one slightly to the left of that central path, are the two apostasies of which I wish to speak. They are so close to that central path, abutting it on either side and seemingly parallel, that it is quite easy to slip into one of these other two paths almost without noticing. Indeed, once on one of these other two paths, it is easy to c...2020-01-2826 minSquareTwoThe Two Trees- An LDS Revisiting Of The Garden Of EdenAfter decades of studying LDS doctrine concerning women (and carefully distinguishing it from LDS cultural understandings and practices, which in quite a few cases contradict that doctrine), I have been liberated as a woman from the erroneous and harmful beliefs about women that haunt those raised in Abrahamic traditions. How remarkable and in some senses ironic it still seems to me to have experienced “women’s lib” by conversion to Mormonism! How utterly right it feels for this feminist to be a member of the LDS Church!2020-01-2826 minSquareTwoBook Review: A Time Of War, A Time Of PeaceThe thesis of the book is simple: Latter-day Saints have a unique interpretation of national security in this fallen world. A reference familiar to me relates to the material in the book. It is President Spencer W. Kimball’s article, “The False Gods We Worship,” in the June 1976 Ensign. He writes that we rely too much on weapons of stone and steel and have “become anti-enemy and not pro-kingdom of God.” This is true: Satan buys up armies, navies, and governments. We have a world that has experienced many wars throughout history that have taken millions of lives.2020-01-2735 minSquareTwoPriestesscraft In Boise, IdahoPriestesscraft includes, at a minimum, the selling of eggs and the selling of gestation. The Church strongly discourages both practices, and that is not because it just hasn’t “caught up with the times.” The Church strongly discourages both practices because you should not sell these sacred things for money; you should not practice priestesscraft. It is a betrayal of how God intended you to use your priestesshood power and authority, and it is a betrayal of the innocent children and children-to-be involved.2020-01-272h 06SquareTwoThe Eternal Heavenly MotherShattering a Sacred Silence Through An Examination of What Church Leaders Have Taught About Her
In Mark Sullivan’s novel, Beneath A Scarlet Sky, he describes the difficulty of researching the Nazi occupation of Italy during WWII: “I was also hampered by a kind of collective amnesia concerning Italy and Italians after the war . . . No one talks about World War II in Italy so no one remembers.” [1] This same concept applies to Heavenly Mother: the less She is discussed, the less She is remembered until—in a haze of collective amnesia—nothing is said except the excuse, “We don’t talk about Hea...2020-01-191h 45SquareTwoGET THIS- The Gate To Women’s CountryDid we women make it worth the loss here so that there might be a place of eternal sanctuary for women in the universe, a refuge where no man can enter who does not love, respect, and honor women? Where the keyword for a man’s entry is actually a woman’s name?
My sisters, are the pearly gates in reality the Gate to Women’s Country?
You can see how this book could haunt one’s thoughts for years . . . as it has mine2020-01-1424 minSquareTwoBook Review- Girls Who Choose GodMcArthur Krishna, Bethany Brady Spalding, with illustrations by Kathleen Peterson (2019) Girls Who Choose God: Stories of Extraordinary Women from Church History, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.2020-01-1311 minSquareTwoBOOK REVIEW- The Next MormonsThe Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church. Riess, Jana. Oxford University Press, New York, New York, 2019. 312 pages. Reviewed by Ashley Alley and Kenneth Jeng.2020-01-1330 minSquareTwoAn Example Of Life In Polygamy In UtahMy great-grandfather, Samuel Bateman, was born in Manchester, England in 1832, converted to the Church, and came to Utah in 1850. He met Marinda Allen, my great-grandmother, in 1853 as he ferried her across the Jordan River and married her the following year. He was 22 and she was 16. In later years he took a second wife, Harriett Egbert (who actually had been a baby when her parents came to Samuel and Marinda’s wedding dinner). Marinda gave birth to thirteen children and Harriet had eight. Marinda’s youngest child, Juliaetta, was my grandmother. She wrote a biography of Marinda, with much about the fami...2020-01-1347 minSquareTwoMotherhood=PriestesshoodMotherhood is authorized Priestesshood.2020-01-1335 minSquareTwoUpdating My Old Lists! The Status Of Diarchy In The ChurchIt was in 2013 that I first penned a list of things I thought would change in the Church as we moved towards the diarchy that surely exists in the celestial kingdom. I’ve periodically updated and added to it in subsequent writings. Recently, I’ve been reminded it’s time I updated the list for 2019—and boy, oh boy, are there a lot of updates to make!2020-01-1225 minSquareTwoTeaching Peace Makes Any Subject SacredA reporter recently described the United States as being in a civil cold war. At the most prosperous time in history, in the most prosperous nation in the history of the world, in a digital world where we can truly know each other, the popular view is that hate and discord are everywhere.2019-09-2922 minSquareTwoOne Woman's Thoughts On Plural MarriageA 2002 Mormonad in the New Era magazine showed an ice cream sundae with a cockroach in the ice cream. The caption read, “It’s great, except for . . . the bad parts.” [1] Although a commentary on questionable media, I also saw it as a commentary on the gospel because the beautiful ice cream sundae of the Plan of Happiness held for me one depressing, cockroach-like thought: polygamy was part of God’s eternal plan.2019-06-0235 minSquareTwoLove In The Void- Where God Finds UsSomehow over the course of my life, I stumbled across the name Simone Weil, but knew next to nothing about her. This introduction to her thought, published in 2018, came highly recommended, and at 105 pages, it seemed a gentle enough introduction to tackle on a recent flight to DC.2019-06-0218 minSquareTwo“12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos”: Many Good Things, One Big Fat Hairy Bad ThingPeterson’s 12 Rules is a prosaically titled book that has already been deemed a modern classic by his followers. However, in addition to that very helpful cultural rediscovery, Peterson introduces into his work one big fat hairy error which threatens all the good he had hoped to accomplish.2019-04-0157 minSquareTwoThe Father and Mother: An Adaptation by V.H. Cassler"The Father and Mother: An Adaptation by V.H. Cassler from an October 2018 General Conference Talk by Elder Brian K. Ashton,"
In the premortal world, we were born as spirits to Heavenly Parents and lived with Them as a family.2019-04-0116 min
Pro Business ChannelScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club Radio
Join Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Scott Lowery, a well-known leader and successful entrepreneur in the debt buying industry.
Scott, throughout his tenure, was the Founder, CEO, President and Chairman of SquareTwo Financial Corporation, originally known as Collect America, LTD, headquartered in Denver, CO which became one of the top debt buyers in the United States and Canada. Under Scott’s guidance as CEO, thecompany grew to over 25 franchised law firms across the US, over 100 local counsel legal firms in the network and revenue consistently exceeding $300M...2019-03-2139 min
Pro Business ChannelScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioJoin Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Scott Lowery, a well-known leader and successful entrepreneur in the debt buying industry.Scott, throughout his tenure, was the Founder, CEO, President and Chairman of SquareTwo Financial Corporation, originally known as Collect America, LTD, headquartered in Denver, CO which became one of the top debt buyers in the United States and Canada. Under Scott’s guidance as CEO, thecompany grew to over 25 franchised law firms across the US, over 100 local counsel legal firms in the network an...2019-02-0539 min
Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioJoin Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Scott Lowery, a well-known leader and successful entrepreneur in the debt buying industry.Scott, throughout his tenure, was the Founder, CEO, President and Chairman of SquareTwo Financial Corporation, originally known as Collect America, LTD, headquartered in Denver, CO which became one of the top debt buyers in the United States and Canada. Under Scott’s guidance as CEO, the company grew to over 25 franchised law firms across the US, over 100 local counsel legal firms in the network and revenue consistently exceeding $300M...2019-02-0539 min
Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioJoin Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Scott Lowery, a well-known leader and successful entrepreneur in the debt buying industry.Scott, throughout his tenure, was the Founder, CEO, President and Chairman of SquareTwo Financial Corporation, originally known as Collect America, LTD, headquartered in Denver, CO which became one of the top debt buyers in the United States and Canada. Under Scott’s guidance as CEO, the company grew to over 25 franchised law firms across the US, over 100 local counsel legal firms in the ne...2019-02-0539 min
Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioScott Lowery, Back to Square One on Capital Club RadioJoin Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Scott Lowery, a well-known leader and successful entrepreneur in the debt buying industry.Scott, throughout his tenure, was the Founder, CEO, President and Chairman of SquareTwo Financial Corporation, originally known as Collect America, LTD, headquartered in Denver, CO which became one of the top debt buyers in the United States and Canada. Under Scott’s guidance as CEO, the company grew to over 25 franchised law firms across the US, over 100 local counsel legal firms in the network and revenue consistently exceeding $300M...2019-02-0539 min
SquareTwoBook Review: The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for FaithThis book, one of their best, centers around the experience of doubt. The introductory chapter of the book notes that people often have preconceptions, misunderstandings, and beliefs that cause difficulty for them. History abounds with such mistaken beliefs...2018-11-1247 min
SquareTwoUtah Women And Mental HealthThe Utah Women & Leadership Project has a series of Utah Women Stats research snapshots with the goal of providing specific, timely data on a series of issues relevant to Utah women.2018-11-1220 min
SquareTwoMy Story: Lessons Learned Counselling with My Bishop While Experiencing Domestic ViolenceHe never hit me, not in 24 years. But for most of those years he hurt me.2018-10-1518 min
SquareTwoDeveloping A Primary Lesson On Black LDS HistoryAs a mother of Latter-day Saint children in the twenty-first century, it is important to me to teach my children about the evil that is racism, including racism within our own church history.2018-10-1510 min
SquareTwoNavigating Transitions for Women: Finding New Calling and PurposeThrough the years, I have had hundreds of LDS women talk to me about feeling lost—lost in terms of their direction in life. Most have testimonies of the Gospel and serve faithfully in Church callings, but many of these sisters are going through transitions in life and feel a “void” that they often struggle to describe.2018-09-2425 minSquareTwoSealing of Living Women to More Than One Husband: Has There Always Been a Third Option?It has not been very many years ago that the idea of a woman being sealed to more than one man was a foreign subject.2018-08-1910 minSquareTwoBook Review: The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and UsBook review of The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us, by Bruce Feiler. New York: Penguin Press, 2017. 306 pages.2018-08-1926 min
SquareTwoLostThere is a theme in almost every book, chapter, and verse of scripture that is not specifically articulated and only tangentially understood. It is “lostness.”2018-06-1821 minSquareTwoChurch Policy Changes Regarding Victims of Abuse are a Positive StepOn March 26, 2018 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced a revision regarding a bishop’s responsibility when dealing with victims of abuse.2018-06-1110 min
SquareTwoWomen’s Suffrage in Utah: The Almighty’s Great LevelerIn April of 1895, the Territory of Utah was all abuzz about woman’s suffrage: would the new constitution of the proposed State of Utah grant women the right to vote?2018-06-1115 min
SquareTwo"By Study and Also by Faith": SquareTwo and Scholarship in Light of the RestorationJohn Mark Mattox emeritis of the editorial board delivers an exposition of the aims of SquareTwo. This article was originally published in SquareTwo, Vol. 4 No. 3 (Fall 2011.2018-06-1112 minArticles of Faith Archives - FAIRArticles of Faith – In Argumentato Pietatis – Valerie HudsonDr. Valerie Hudson joined the faculty of Texas A&M University at the Bush School in 2012 as the George Bush Chair. She is considered an expert on international security and foreign policy analysis, she received her PhD in political science at The Ohio State University.
In 2009, Foreign Policy named her one of the top 100 Most Influential Global Thinkers. Dr. Hudson developed a nation-by-nation database on women (http://womanstats.org) that triggered both academic and policy interest including use by both the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee and various agencies of the United Nations.
Valerie is...2015-01-2720 minArticles of Faith Archives - FAIRArticles of Faith Podcast 14: Ralph C. Hancock – An Invitation to Help Advance the Pursuit of Truth as it Concerns our Way of LifeRalph C. Hancock earned his Bachelors from Brigham Young University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, all in political science. Prior to joining the faculty at Brigham Young University, where he is now a professor of political science, he taught at Hillsdale College in Michigan (1982-1986) and the University of Idaho (1986-1987). Ralph is (at the time of this interview) the President of the John Adams Center for the Study of Faith, Philosophy an Public Affairs.
Ralph Hancock e is also one of the founders of the LDS Web journal SquareTwo (http://squaretwo...2014-09-2937 minArticles of Faith Archives - FAIRArticles of Faith 10: S. Matthew Stearmer – A Reflection on the Cultural Construction of Sexual “Needs”Matt Stearmer is a Ph.D. Candidate of Sociology at The Ohio State University. His academic interests include social movements, gender, networks, public health and religion. His work has appeared in the Journal of Peace Research, and in a book titled Sex and World Peace. He currently serves as the first councilor in the Young Men’s Presidency. He and his partner Janille have four children ages 5-16. He is the author of an article entitled, A Reflection on the Cultural Construction of Sexual “Needs” in the journal SquareTwo found at SquareTwo.org Welcome S. Matthew Stearmer.
Questi...2014-07-2132 minArticles of Faith Archives - FAIRArticles of Faith 4: Valerie Hudson on the Current Discourse on Women and the Priesthood by Ballard, Dew, and OaksDr. Valerie Hudson joined the faculty of Texas A&M University at the Bush School in 2012 as the George Bush Chair. She is considered an expert on international security and foreign policy analysis, she received her PhD in political science at The Ohio State University. Prior to going to Texas A&M she taught at Brigham Young University. In 2009, Foreign Policy named her one of the top 100 Most Influential Global Thinkers. Dr. Hudson developed a nation-by-nation database on women (http://womanstats.org) that triggered both academic and policy interest including use by both the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee a...2014-05-2626 minGender Issues Archives | FAIRArticles of Faith 4: Valerie Hudson on the Current Discourse on Women and the Priesthood by Ballard, Dew, and OaksDr. Valerie Hudson joined the faculty of Texas A&M University at the Bush School in 2012 as the George Bush Chair. She is considered an expert on international security and foreign policy analysis, she received her PhD in political science at The Ohio State University. Prior to going to Texas A&M she taught at Brigham Young University. In 2009, Foreign Policy named her one of the top 100 Most Influential Global Thinkers. Dr. Hudson developed a nation-by-nation database on women (http://womanstats.org) that triggered both academic and policy interest including use by both the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee a...2014-05-2626 min