Mormon Awakenings

Jack Naneek discusses a monk’s enlightenment as he walks through the market.  Our binary world is examined and compared ... Read more

Jack Naneek discusses brute facts as compared to institutional facts. He introduces the work of John Searle, the constru... Read more

Jack Naneek explores literalism, authority, and how some Mormons wish the LDS Church really was a cult.  Stories of the ... Read more

Jack Naneek discusses contagions.  Ideas are contagious, which is great if the ideas are great, but terrible if the idea... Read more

Jack Naneek tackles church culture and its origins in the story of Lehi and his family.  Laman and Lemuel and murmuring ... Read more

Jack Naneek interviews Tyler Brough about Tyler’s progressing faith, growing understanding and accumulated wisdom. Tyler... Read more

Jack Naneek interviews Dan Wotherspoon, host of Mormon Matters, about what awakening means in a Mormon context. Dan shar... Read more

Jack Naneek reviews the tension between the old guard and the young upstarts. The old guard is smarter than we give them... Read more

Jack Naneek shares stories of worry and grief.  Most of us experience loneliness.  Most of us experience anxiety.   But,... Read more

Jack Naneek mixes some philosophies of men with a little scripture. Heidegger’s philosophical text Being and Time is dis... Read more

Jack Naneek examines the little discussed topic of grace.  A fictional stake president’s death is used as an illustratio... Read more

Today Jack Naneek helps us to investigate what it means to go through these journeys and discover “what comes out of a m... Read more

Jack Naneek explores unplugging. Many forces in our lives live off of us, beyond our awareness. Jack examines Nephi’s re... Read more

Jack Naneek explores the mind, and how it reconciles the “should be” with the “actually is.”  The iron rod, enduring to ... Read more

Bill Reel joins Jack Naneek for a discussion about seeking validation, the institutional church and where to find peace ... Read more

Jack Naneek discusses the daily grind of dealing with the people around us.  No matter their rank, how others treat you ... Read more

Jack Naneek explores the limitations we put on ourselves, and how that can lead us to overlook all that is miraculous ar... Read more

Jack Naneek discusses the well intended but sometimes misguided salesmen in our lives. He shares an experience of a Deac... Read more

Jack Naneek discusses Mitt Romney’s campaign,  the LDS origin story, and how none of it is really that exceptional.  It ... Read more

Jack Naneek discusses the human mind’s use of heuristics.  We use shortcuts to save time and mental capacity, but, somet... Read more