1030: Dr. Gina Colvin's Pre-Excommunication Interview Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 60 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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1:27.0	Do you think having a blog or a podcast makes it even harder? Is there something about being
1:34.0	a public figure in the progressive liberal Mormon space that makes it harder than let's just say
1:41.0	the average person who participates on the Ethical Faith Facebook group? Like, is there something
1:47.0	about that being a public figure that makes it even harder? Do you think?
1:52.0	Oh, I think, yeah, I think, well, I'm in my home ward and I don't think most people really care.
1:59.0	Well, they don't listen to my podcast. I think my state president has been pretty, a pretty faithful listener.
2:06.0	But like, mostly people don't really care. If they do it, they do it was sort of in subdefuge and then they get
2:13.0	with other people and they have conversations and they put a sheen of worry all over it.
2:18.0	They don't kind of see that they're too afraid to talk to you about the whole story.
2:24.0	So...
2:26.0	But I mean, hard for you.
2:28.0	Yeah. Yeah, I think.
2:30.0	Holding the mantle, I think of like Frodo holding the ring. Is there something about being
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