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Mormon Stories Podcast

1247: Lila Tueller - Daughter of Mormon General Authority Hartman Rector Jr. Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Today we are interviewing Lila Tueller - daughter of prominent Mormon General Authority, Hartman Rector Jr. Today we will discuss Lila’s story, which includes:

- Her parent’s story joining the church and becoming church leaders.

- What it was like to grow up in the family of a prominent Mormon General Authority.

- Lila’s own faith journey as a Mormon, which includes her own faith crisis.

- Lila’s beliefs and perspective now about Mormonism, and about life.

Transcript

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Let's talk about Sunstone for a bit.

0:42.4

So my understanding of Sunstone was started in the mid 70s by Scott Kinney and Peggy Fletcher

0:47.4

Stack and a couple other people started as a magazine and then it started doing the symposium

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and it started really growing in the 80s.

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So where does your brother come into that?

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He came in, he started with Sunstone in 78.

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And I should tell people who don't know Sunstone in 70.

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Oh sorry not 70, that's wrong.

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Go ahead.

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Sunstone is a form of like, Mormon history, of Mormon art, of Mormon culture, of intellectual

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Mormon, Mormon intellectual thought.

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And so it was a place for us to be thoughtful and progressive and intellectual and figure

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out true church history and it kind of came on the, you know, along with the Leonard

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Arrington Camelot years of the church history, you know, Renaissance and the church trying

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