1147: Should the Mormon Church Conduct Worthiness Interviews for 8-11 Year Old Children?
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 120 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Should the Mormon Church Conduct Worthiness Interviews for 8-11 Year Old Children?
Earlier this week The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a marketing research survey inquiring from members about the idea of lowering the age of youth interviews with clergy from age 12 to eight.
Today we have assembled an all-star panel to discuss whether or not this is a good idea. Panelists include:
- Natasha Helfer Parker (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Sex Therapist)
- Roger Hendrix (former Mormon Bishop, Stake Presidency Member, Mission President, and CES Director)
- Sam Young (founder of Protect LDS Children and Protect All Children)
- Joelle Casteix ( leading global expert, advocate and spokesperson for survivors of child sexual assault and institutional cover-up. Joelle has considerable experience fighting the Mormon church in state legislatures in support of sexual abuse victims )
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Shaves, or society loves their shapes. |
| 0:10.0 | Mormon Stories is a production of the Open Stories Foundation and relies solely upon the |
| 0:14.2 | support of people like you, its listeners. |
| 0:17.0 | To help keep the podcast alive or to become a member of the community, please become a |
| 0:21.2 | monthly subscriber by visiting mormasstories.org and clicking on the Donate button on the |
| 0:26.5 | right side of the page under Support. |
| 0:29.2 | While contributions to Mormon Stories are completely tax deductible in the United States |
| 0:33.6 | and go towards producing the podcast and building communities and programs of support for |
| 0:38.6 | Mormons like you. |
| 0:40.0 | Thanks for your support. |
| 0:59.2 | Hello everyone and welcome to a special edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm your host John DeLin. |
| 1:08.8 | It's July 11th, 2019. |
| 1:13.1 | This is part of a periodic feature that we do on Mormon Stories podcast called Mormon |
| 1:18.2 | News Podcast. |
| 1:20.0 | And we have a fun, interesting slash disturbing news story that just came across the Mormon |
| 1:27.8 | Stories News desk a couple days ago. |
| 1:33.5 | We first learned on the X-Mormon Reddit that the Mormon Church, the LDS Church, has put |
| 1:39.8 | out a survey on Qualtrics which is attempting to query its active membership as sort of |
| 1:50.5 | market research, sort of surveying the customers to find out if the customers are open |
| 1:57.8 | to be okay with the idea of the Mormon Church lowering the age of youth interviews with |
| 2:05.4 | clergy from age 12 to age 8. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. John Dehlin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. John Dehlin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.