1457: Lessons I've Learned Leaving the Mormon Church as a Teen - Brinley Young
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today is Brinley Young, daughter of Leah and Cody young, a family famous for telling their story to John during an epic multi-part Mormon Stories series on their faith transition and excommunication back in 2019 when Brinley was just 15 years old. Now 18, post-faith crisis, and with wisdom beyond her years, Brinley joins John and Margi in studio for 7 lessons she’s learned after leaving the church on topics ranging from communication, owning her sexuality, and following her intuition. This is a special one you won’t want to miss!
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Links and show notes:
Mormon Stories 1044: Leah, Cody, and Brinley Young - From Fear Into Joy (Part 1) Pt. 1
Mormon Stories 1098: The Excommunication of Leah and Cody Young Pt. 1
Mormon Stories 1048: Leah, Cody, and Brinley Young - A Teen's Perspective on Faith Transition Pt. 1
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:05.1 | DeLin. It is July 14th, 2021 and I am so thrilled today to be joined by a special co-host. |
| 0:12.8 | Hello, Marke here. I'm happy to be here, especially for this interview. |
| 0:18.4 | Yes, we are super excited for today's interview. Every once in a while, number one, we have |
| 0:25.2 | kind of these Mormon Stories podcast interviews that are really groundbreaking, earth shattering, |
| 0:31.0 | transformational. And for those who have been following Mormon Stories for at least the past |
| 0:34.6 | three years or so or more, you'll know that the Lee and Cody Young, Brittany Young Mormon Stories |
| 0:41.4 | podcast episode was groundbreaking. Certainly a top 10 episode in terms of influence in the history |
| 0:47.8 | of Mormon Stories, which is saying something. It's been viewed well over a hundred thousand times. |
| 0:52.4 | It's touched hundreds of thousands of lives. And one thing that we'd like to do on Mormon Stories |
| 0:58.2 | podcast is occasionally bring back former guests to kind of do aware are they now and to catch up with. |
| 1:05.5 | Oh, really now. Yeah, so Marke is joining us today because I love Marke and I'll have her on |
| 1:11.6 | frankly anytime she wants to come on, but also Marke and I are dear friends with Lee and Cody Young |
| 1:18.4 | and Brittany and their entire family. And today we have in studio, Brittany Young. Hey, Brittany. |
| 1:25.0 | Hi. Thank you for having me. It's so nice to have you here. Pleasure. |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah. So we did the interview of Cody and Lee Young and Brittany about two and a half years ago. |
| 1:39.8 | This happened after Lee had started struggling with the church and then eventually Cody started |
| 1:46.2 | struggling with the church. They kind of had a faith crisis. They started a support group to |
| 1:51.2 | support others in the Ohio area, Columbus area, who were struggling as well. Then they got started |
| 2:00.6 | to get grief from their bishop and state president and eventually they were actually communicated |
| 2:05.2 | literally for nothing more than starting a support group for questioning Mormons in the Ohio |
| 2:11.4 | and state of Ohio. And I guess probably for coming on, Mormon stories podcast. So we went back and |
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