1151: Donna Showalter: The Faith Crisis of a Former Provo, Utah Relief Society President Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What could cause one of the Mormon church's "best and brightest" women to lose their faith in the church?

For part 2 of today’s interview with Donna Showalter, we will hear how an east bench, Provo, Utah Mormon mother, former Relief Society President, former Stake Young Women’s President, and BYU employee navigated her Mormon faith crisis.

- This story includes the gripping account of what happened when they asked Mormon apostle Jeffrey R. Holland to heal their son of his gayness.

- It also includes Donna's touching experiences as a Relief Society President.

- We also learn about the impact of the November 2015 LGBTQ policy on Donna, Michael and her family - along with the 2019 policy reversal.

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0:59.2	So we obviously spent two hours talking about Michael's journey, him coming out as
1:09.0	Gady you guys and kind of ways that that might have stressed and challenged you.
1:14.9	I don't want to necessarily retell that story.
1:17.6	I'll just refer listeners who didn't hear those first two hours to that.
1:22.3	But you know, your full blown faith crisis didn't start into 2019 and it wasn't until 2013,
1:32.3	14, 15.
1:33.3	15.
1:34.3	Well, Michael came out to you in 2000.
1:37.9	Michael came out to us in 2012 but we didn't believe him.
1:41.1	We didn't think that was a thing and it certainly didn't fit into the Mormon paradigm.
1:46.9	So he's going through a phase or he hasn't even hit puberty.
1:50.7	So how could he possibly know this?
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