1048: Leah, Cody, and Brinley Young - A Teen's Perspective on Faith Transition Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Join us now for part 2 of our interview with Leah, Cody, and Brinley Young. In this segment, and for the first time on Mormon Stories Podcast, a Mormon teenager (Brinley) will discuss her perspective on her family’s faith crisis. We will conclude by discussing how the Young family has moved from fear to joy in their Mormon faith transition, including how they have managed relationships with believing family/friends/co-workers, their interaction with a high-level Mormon apologist, and their recent interactions with their bishop/stake president in response to their formation of a support group for transitioning/post-Mormons in Columbus, Ohio.
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| 0:48.2 | Hello everyone and welcome back to Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host Dr. John DeLin. |
| 0:53.8 | It is January 8th, 2019 and we are in the middle of another one of our epic touching, powerful |
| 1:04.0 | episodes on Mormon Stories podcast where we dive deep into a Mormon family's faith journey or |
| 1:11.0 | faith crisis or whatever you want to call it. We just spent a good four hours with Leah and Cody |
| 1:17.4 | Young. They talked about growing up in the church about each coming from a family where there |
| 1:25.0 | was divorce. Cody talked about his mission, they talked about marrying the temple and they talked |
| 1:31.6 | about many years of service in the church, Cody going to med school, Leah starting a business |
| 1:38.0 | and how that all culminated in eventually a faith crisis that actually happened only 12 months |
| 1:43.6 | ago and what that was like for them to go through that and to be in a mixed faith marriage for |
| 1:52.1 | a number of years or no for a certain amount of time, a short amount of time before they were |
| 1:56.1 | able to get on the same page. It was a very powerful several hours. Many of you were touched |
| 2:03.6 | and contributed and we just appreciate that. Now we're super excited to do something that we've |
| 2:10.3 | never done before on Mormon Stories podcast. So it's very common for us or exclusively we've |
| 2:17.7 | kind of only had the adult perspectives on these faith crisis journeys. For the first time in my |
| 2:23.2 | memory what we're going to be doing now is bringing on a teenager. Brindley is the oldest |
| 2:32.2 | child in the young family. She's currently 15 years old. She was 14 years old when the faith crisis |
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