1418: The Future of Mormonism - Roger Hendrix

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 194 minutes

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Summary

Returning Mormon Stories Podcast guest, Roger Hendrix, is a former LDS Bishop, Mission President, and CES director, and was also called by Gorden B. Hinkley as a Trustee for the Deseret Trust Company for 18 years. And as if that weren't enough, Roger also worked as a business Management Consultant for 35 years, and did a syndicated daily radio commentary on social, political, and economic trends for nine years.

Join Roger and myself today as we provide an analysis of the LDS church as a multi-billion-dollar corporation, and discuss "the future of Mormonism" - as Roger sees it.

Books by Roger Hendrix:

Bend, Create, and Plan Your Future, author Roger Hendrix
Choosing the Dream, The future of Religion in American Public Life. Co- authored with Fred Gedicks
Leverage Point, a novel written with Gerald Lund.
The Idea Economy, Why your ideas will have to create personal wealth and hope in an age of uncertainty. Co- authored with Rob Brazell.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John DeLan. It's March 26th.
0:05.6	Today we're doing something that's a little bit unusual. I did a three-hour podcast in the morning, kind of a monologue,
0:12.4	celebrating the Mormon Church's six recent articles in the Leahona
0:17.2	about how to support mixed faith marriages. And honestly, there's this theme that we have been covering on
0:24.0	Mormon Stories podcast recently, also including the Patrick Mason fireside that we released a week or two ago,
0:30.7	because what we're noticing is that the Mormon Church is
0:35.7	transforming. It's changing at light speed if you compare it to the Church's pace of change historically. We're seeing in
0:43.4	2021 a historic velocity of change within Mormonism. And
0:48.0	most of it is that the leadership under the leadership of President Russell Nelsen over the past few years and it's just kind of
0:56.9	mind-blowing. And so I've been thinking about how in the world can we
1:02.9	talk about and think about and
1:05.2	analyze and try to understand and even predict the changes that we're we have been seeing and that we're going to see in the future
1:13.4	as an episode. And so today we have what I think is a really important Mormon Stories podcast episode. It's one that's been in the works for months.
1:23.8	And it's a friendly face that we will be that we are bringing back to Mormon Stories podcast and it's definitely one of the top
1:32.5	dozen or you know few dozen dozen or so episodes of all time on Mormon Stories podcast. We are bringing back the
1:39.3	Roger Hendrix to Mormon Stories podcast. Hey Roger. Welcome back. I had to be here.
1:45.7	Now I hope that our listeners obviously know who you are because your episode is one of the moach. Well it's two things.
1:52.6	It's one of the longest single interviews I ever did. I think we exceeded 13 hours in our interview and it was worth every hour.
2:00.5	But it's also one of the most watched interviews of all time. And I believe that's true both because Roger
2:07.6	I think you're a fascinating interview. We you have a ton of really important and relevant experience and your story was fascinating. You're a good storyteller. You're smart. You're wise.
2:18.1	Stop me if you'd like with all the compliments. Feel free. No, I love that.
2:23.3	Keep them coming. But also I think it's important to understand Roger's background. You know, we have had Hans Mattson on Mormon Stories podcast.
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