127: Born Again Mormon Shawn McCraney Pt. 2 - On style and substance

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 February 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode I speak with Shawn McCraney, author of"I was a Born-again Mormon" and host of"Heart of the Matter", a controversial weekly Christian TV show geared towards LDS Church members. In part 2, I ask Shawn several questions about his style, doctrine and theology.

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0:30.0	After that wonderful segment, I don't want to drag it down into sort of this back and forth bash or anything like that. No interest in that.
0:49.0	I do have a lot of questions that are going to seem challenging on face value.
0:54.0	Not because I'm trying to put you in a corner, not because I'm trying to lay a trap, not that I could. I wouldn't want to mess with you.
1:04.0	There are a lot of questions people have, a lot of questions I have.
1:09.0	You've answered a lot of them and just what you've said so far.
1:13.0	But I just thought we'd do a Q&A for an hour or a half and just go through as many of these as we can. Is that all right?
1:20.0	So you have an organization, what's it called again?
1:23.0	A Lathea Ministries. It's a 501c3 California tax exempt.
1:27.0	So it's a nonprofit?
1:28.0	Yeah.
1:29.0	So donations to your organization are tax exempt?
1:31.0	Yeah.
1:32.0	Okay.
1:33.0	And what are the main products or offerings or programs?
1:37.0	TV.
1:38.0	It's just all the TV program.
1:39.0	Television program and our Bible studies. That's pretty much it. We put them all online.
1:44.0	And you exist purely through donations of supporters?
1:48.0	Yeah.
1:49.0	Okay. A lot of people criticize the LDS Church for their lack of financial transparency.
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