Matters of the Mind and Mental Health

Classical 89 Thinking Aloud: http://www.classical89.org/thinkingaloud/past.asp?d=10/24/2008

Two formerly separate worlds have converged in a new book titled Matters of the Mind: Latter-day Saint Helps for Mental Health. The book comprises chapters on mental disorders and we're discussing its rationale with two of the editors, both LDS clinical psychologists.

• What mental illnesses have you come up against in your life? How have you coped?
  
• Mental illnesses aren’t different for those who believe in the LDS religion versus those who do not; so do you think there should be books like this specifically for the LDS community?
  
• How do you view the utilization of professional treatment for mental health problems?

Views of Islam Part I: Religious Violence

Last year at this time, especially in the state of Utah, a whole lot of attention was captured by an anniversary. 9-11, the 150th anniversary of the massacre at mountain meadows. By coincidence, we all hope by sheer coincidence, the anniversary has been shared now for seven years by another massacre; one perpetrated in Manhatten, in Pennsylvania, at the Pentagon. Thinking Aloud turns its attention to questions about Islam, the nature of its association with religious violence, and by way of comparison, the connection between ANY religion and the phenomenon of violence. Join us for Thinking Aloud, on the anniversaries.

Science and God

Classical 89 Thinking Aloud Interview: http://www.classical89.org/thinkingaloud/past.asp?d=9/24/2007
Scholars have been engaged in prying open some space for the notion that even scientists have acknowledged divine guidance in their studies, insights, and findings. Our questions today: Does God Ever Assist Scientists? And, how might some scientists respond to this question?

Sports and Religion

Thinking Aloud Classical 89 Interview: http://www.classical89.org/thinkingaloud/past.asp?d=6/18/2008
Today's Thinking Aloud discusses the interface between sports and religion. Historian Richard Kimball of the BYU History Department, discusses how these two seemingly separate topics convene, and the importance it has in past and present societies.

German Latter-day Saints in WWII

Listen to this Interview: http://www.classical89.org/thinkingaloud/past.asp?d=5/30/2008
BYU professor Roger Minert explores the untold stories of Latter-Day Saint soldiers and civilians in his forthcoming book, German Latter-Day Saints in WWII . Join us as we discuss the harrowing experience of Nazi Germany from the perspective of a small religious minority. For more information on this subject visit German LDS in WWII

Joseph Smith Rough Stone Rolling

Listen to this Interview: http://www.classical89.org/thinkingaloud/past.asp?d=5/16/2008

Thinking Aloud brings back Richard Bushman in an interview that first aired on the bicentenary of Joseph Smith's birth. Bushman's biography of Joseph Smith has now taken its rightful place as a respected and hugely important scholarly work about the man who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.