1345: Douglas Stilgoe - Leaving the LDS Church as a Young Adult in the U.K.

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 237 minutes

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Summary

As part of our ongoing series on 21st century Mormonism outside of the United States, today we interview Douglas Stilgoe. Douglas is a 23 year old, 3rd generation Mormon raised in Warwickshire, England (Coventry England Stake).

Douglas' story is interesting for many reasons:

He discusses life as a Mormon in the UK in the 2000's.
He was raised in the same area as Tom Phillips, the high-ranking Mormon church leader in the U.K. who lost his faith and left the church AFTER receiving his 2nd anointing.
His story explores how painful and damaging Mormonism can be on families when a parent loses their faith.
He discusses his own very recent loss of faith as a young adult in the U.K., after being a very devout believing youth (just over the past year).

For more information on Tom Phillips and the 2nd Anointing, see here.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of
0:13.8	Mormon Stories podcast, a special international edition of Mormon Stories podcast.
0:18.9	I'm your host, John Dillin.
0:20.1	It's September 15th, 2020.
0:23.4	And today we are super excited to interview Douglas Stillgo.
0:28.8	I want to apologize that I haven't been as prolific recently with Mormon Stories podcast
0:34.7	episodes.
0:35.7	I promise you I've been super busy.
0:37.7	I've been launching a new YouTube channel called Understanding Mormonism with Dr. John
0:41.4	Dillin.
0:42.4	You can go to YouTube right now.
0:43.8	There's three videos up.
0:45.2	I have to say they've been well received, but we're doing that so that all the amazing
0:51.2	Mormon history, all the amazing discussions about Mormon truth claims can get on YouTube.
0:58.8	We dominate the podcast world as progressive and post-mormons, but YouTube is a major way
1:04.3	people are communicating in the world these days, reaching youth, reaching young adults,
1:08.5	and we've got nothing there, progressive and post-mormons, other than some amazing channels
1:12.2	like Brother Jake, thoughts on things and stuff, self on the shelf.
1:15.9	But what we don't have are just short little 10 minute videos that can be shared easily
1:20.7	that discuss all the major topics.
1:22.8	So huge love to thoughts and things and stuff, self on the shelf, Brother Jake.
1:28.4	But check out Understanding Mormonism, email us, send us your support, subscribe on YouTube,
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