1049: Leah, Cody, and Brinley Young - A Teen's Perspective on Faith Transition Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 83 minutes
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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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| 0:35.1 | I just have to jump in and say that it's again it's not glib when we talk about this in terms of |
| 0:56.9 | the gift of the faith crisis because what you guys are talking about is principles that |
| 1:04.8 | make strong families even stronger. Principles that healthy families have known for years or decades |
| 1:12.5 | or generations, things like unconditional love and differentiation. In Mormonism, sameness is best. |
| 1:22.3 | Everybody needs to be the same and do what they're told and you know in a fake artificial world |
| 1:29.9 | but I know apostles whose children have fallen away or who are gay or whatever. There is no such thing |
| 1:36.8 | as a family where everybody's on board and everybody does the same thing. It's literally impossible |
| 1:42.3 | and so sameness is a mirage and instead of the family ever achieving sameness, what they really |
| 1:48.9 | achieve is people feeling shame and guilt that they don't agree or they can't live up to everything |
| 1:55.6 | that's expected and so they internalize that and they start living the split life where there's |
| 2:00.6 | whatever they present to their family but then whatever they're doing on the side or thinking |
| 2:05.0 | you're feeling on the side and that's just toxic. It literally erodes your mental and physical health |
| 2:12.0 | and so that's not healthy. What is healthy is overtly and explicitly teaching |
| 2:21.7 | a value of this family is in differentiation. Their strength in differences. Our differences can |
| 2:29.2 | you know if mommy's more frugal but daddy is more spontaneous and fun, that balance is healthy. It |
| 2:36.1 | keeps us somewhere in the middle versus on any one extreme or if one person's super religious |
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