Episode #84: Exploring Fundamentalist Churches Part 1: The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints & The Kingdom Of God W/Stephen Nielsen

When I first left the LDS Church I remember looking around for a place to go worship on Sundays with my family. As I looked around there weren’t exactly big fundamentalist church buildings on every corner. This meant I had to really search around and dig to find folks. Now for guy like me who is maybe just a little bit lazy and who likes his recliner, a bag of Doritos, and football a little too much it felt a little daunting. I remember thinking while searching “man I wish I knew where to look”. Well starting today I am hoping to make that search for other folks a little bit easier as I begin a series of episodes on different Mormon Fundamentalist Churches. 

Today I have Stephen Nielsen on the podcast. Stephen is in the leadership of a Mormon Fundamentalist Church called The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints & The Kingdom of God also called the Nielson-Naylors. During our conversation we cover Stephen’s personal history (which I have to say is absolutely fascinating since it covers a lot of modern-day history in the Fundamentalist Movement), & then move on to cover what the Nielsen-Naylors believe and some of their practices.  Along the way in the conversation, we somehow managed to touch on a large number Gospel topics and ideas. I learned a lot in this conversation from Stephen, and side note I attended Church with the Nielson-Naylors recently and they were just as warm and friendly as Stephen was.