1029: Dr. Gina Colvin's Pre-Excommunication Interview Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gina Colvin, host of A Thoughtful Faith Podcast, is set to be excommunicated by the Mormon Church for apostasy on 12/20/2018 in her New Zealand ward by her bishop. The accusations against Gina include the following:

(a) Being baptized into the Anglican faith.
(b) Her continued profession of membership in the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints;
(c) Active criticism of the Church and its leaders in public forums; and
(d) Public advocacy for positions which are contrary to core doctrines of the Church.

This is Gina’s pre-excommunication interview.

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1:22.0	I hope you'll be wasn't. Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories
1:31.0	podcast. I'm your host, John DeLin. We are broadcasting to you today again live from the
1:37.0	Holly Alden Mormon Stories Studios in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is December 13, 2018. I'm Dr.
1:47.0	John DeLin. We are doing a great job of doing this and we could not be more excited.
1:54.0	Sombre, celebrate, grateful, sad, angry. We couldn't be any more of those things than we are today
2:02.0	because today we are interviewing again bringing back to Mormon Stories podcast. Dr. Gina
2:08.0	Paul, who is a great writer, and I hope you will be able to see him again live.
2:15.0	She has been a great writer and well-beloved all throughout progressive and post-mormonism. She is a blogger. Kiwi
2:25.0	Mormon was the blog that she burst onto the progressive Mormon scene. She took over a thoughtful
2:32.0	and cool books, including a book that we recently featured, which I have behind me, which is decolonizing
2:39.0	Mormonism. Is that what it's called? Gina? It is, yes.
2:42.0	Which is a really great and important book. And we're here today to catch up with Gina, but also we are here with Gina
2:52.0	Colvin today because in seven days from today she is scheduled to be communicated from the Mormon church in New Zealand
3:00.0	by her bishop. And the accusations against her include number one being baptized into the Anglican faith.
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