1337: Shannon Caldwell Montez - From Wife and Mother to Groundbreaking Mormon Historian
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 198 minutes
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Summary
How does a Mormon wife and mother become a groundbreaking historian?
Join us today on Mormon Stories Podcast as Shannon Caldwell Montez shares with us her journey to become a historian after living an orthodox Mormon life for decades.
Shannon recently obtained a Master's degree in history from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her Master's thesis is entitled "The Secret Mormon Meetings of 1922" - which chronicles how Mormon General Authority B.H. Roberts lost his faith in the historicity of the Book of Mormon, called a multi-day meeting with all of the top LDS Church leadership to inform them of the many, credible scientific problems with the Book of Mormon.
Shannon's Master's thesis can be downloaded here: https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/6712
Shannon's previous Mormon Stories Podcast interview about the life of B. H. Roberts can be found here.
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| 0:00.0 | One, two, three. |
| 0:03.0 | Come, come, you saints, no toil nor labor fear. |
| 0:28.0 | But with joy, when you're way. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, John Delin. |
| 0:39.0 | It is July 2nd, 2020, and we are so very excited to have with us today. |
| 0:47.0 | Shannon called well, Montez. |
| 0:51.0 | Hey, Shannon, how's it going? |
| 0:53.0 | Good. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm so excited to have you with us today. |
| 0:59.0 | For those of you who have been tuned in live, we just did several hours with Shannon. |
| 1:05.0 | Let me just sort of introduce Shannon from a high level. |
| 1:08.0 | So Shannon is the sister of a dear friend of mine, Steve called well. |
| 1:13.0 | Mindy called well. They're dear friends of me and Margie. |
| 1:15.0 | I learned about Shannon through Steve and Mindy. |
| 1:19.0 | And today's episode is going to be on the one hand, just sort of a normal kind of everyday average. |
| 1:27.0 | Mormons kind of journey as a Mormon. |
| 1:30.0 | So Shannon grew up in the case of the area in Utah, ended up going to the U of U. |
| 1:37.0 | She and Steve both are huge youth fans. |
| 1:39.0 | I don't know if that runs in the family. |
| 1:42.0 | But as Shannon just lived the Mormon dream, went to the U of U, studied history, got her bachelor's degree, got married in the temple, you know, had four kids and kind of was living. |
| 1:55.0 | I don't want to say the Mormon dream, but was, you know, definitely doing the Mormon housewife, the Mormon mother sort of thing. |
| 2:04.0 | As an orthodox believing Mormon, but always kind of maybe internally struggling. |
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