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Mormon Stories Podcast

069: Spirituality of the Rising LDS Generation Pt. 2a -- Transformation: An interview with Ashley Sanders

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2007

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our series on the Spirituality of the rising LDS generation, we interview Ashley Sanders — former BYU student, english/philosophy major, political activist, and chief organizer of the BYU Alternative Commencement with Ralph Nader, in opposition to the invitation to U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney.

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0:00.0

Tell us your name. Ashley Sanders. And where are you from? Salt Lake City, Utah.

0:06.7

All right. And what are you doing right now? Well right now I'm being interviewed but

0:12.3

I am I am living in Salt Lake and I'm working for Sunstone and I'm trying to

0:20.6

do all the things in my life that I didn't have time to do when I was in school.

0:23.7

Where are you at school? BYU. BYU, what's your study? Everything but I finally

0:31.2

ended up majoring in English and philosophy. How was that? I liked English

0:38.6

better than philosophy and it was lots of things including frustrating and

0:45.5

really rewarding. My English classes are phenomenal I think. Good. Well tell us

0:53.5

about your faith journey from maybe your teen years to now and anything that

1:00.4

is that you would consider noteworthy or unique or significant you know in

1:08.3

30 seconds. No in you know five minutes or however long you would want to

1:12.9

take on that. Okay well let's see teen years starting with the teen years. My

1:23.3

parents are really how do I describe them? They're really apolitical people and so

1:31.4

the emphasis in my house was always on personal personal transformation a

1:39.5

personally good life and so and kindness above all and so that cultivated in me

1:46.7

combined with my temperament this personality where I just wanted to help I

1:51.9

wanted to do good and so I just tried to do good in the church as much as I

2:00.5

could and tried to I felt really strongly that I should come to church with my

2:05.9

own idea of what church should be and I should try to make it that way and I

2:10.4

tried to do that for a really long time and the I always felt like I was really

2:15.4

different than a lot of other kids my age because I took ideas really really

2:20.9

really seriously and I had these ideas of what church could be what people could

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