1261: Major Changes to the LDS General Handbook of Instructions - 2020 Edition Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This is Part 2 of our review of the recently announced changes to the LDS Church's General Handbook of Instructions. Major changes include:
- Major changes to the church's Disciplinary Council and Exommunication processes.
- Major changes for LGBTQ Mormons, and specifically for Transgender Mormons.
- Some minor changes for women/feminists.
- Other changes to general policy.
Tonight our panel includes Natasha Helfer Parker, Gina Colvin, Anthony D. Miller, Kyle Ashworth, Samantha Taylor, and Jana Johnson Spangler.
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| 0:36.5 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm your host John Dillin, it's February 20th, 2020 and we are super excited to be assembling |
| 0:51.0 | an all-star panel to be discussing something that's really interesting and kind of really |
| 0:57.1 | important. |
| 0:58.6 | For those of you who joined us earlier today, we are here to discuss a recent big change |
| 1:05.4 | within the LDS Church. |
| 1:07.5 | Yesterday, February 19th, 2020, the LDS Church came out with a bunch of changes to what's |
| 1:15.2 | called the LDS General Henbuk of Instructions. |
| 1:18.2 | I just did a big old episode introducing it and talking about all the changes so we're |
| 1:24.4 | not going to go into in depth. |
| 1:26.6 | If you want to go back, if you haven't listened to the first part, go listen to it. |
| 1:30.2 | You'll get the full context, but basically it's this huge manual that the Church uses |
| 1:34.4 | to govern the Church. |
| 1:35.4 | It used to be on paper. |
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