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Mormon Stories Podcast

1031: Dr. Gina Colvin's Pre-Excommunication Interview Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 62 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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Okay, so you like the liturgy, you like the theology. I'm just going to say also the other

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track I wanted to go down is something that has that I've talked to you about privately that's

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rubbed me wrong. You know, a lot of progressive and post-mormon tend to talk about truth claims

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as being really significant. It's just like we were taught XYZ, the church is done,

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PDQ, and all that's important because we've been deceived and misled and and bamboozled and the

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church has done bad things and it harms people and we need to talk about all the stuff so that

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we can build awareness so we can hold the church accountable so that people can all know what's going on

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and then making form decisions.

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And so many of us, that stuff's really, really important. It helps us know how we were fooled,

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why we were fooled, it helps us ground ourselves in reality and then it helps us sort of, you know,

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gets us to the place where then we can figure out where we want to go. And so many times people

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like you join a Brooks, others are just like I don't give a rats rear about the truth claims.

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You're wasting my time, I could care less, even then with a spoon. It's like, and I've interpreted it as some like

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