1463: From TBM to RFM - Radio Free Mormon Discusses his Transition from Mormon Apologist to Non-Believer
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 229 minutes
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Summary
In Friday's Mormon Stories Podcast episode, beloved podcaster Radio Free Mormon shares with us his reflections on how he transitioned from a Mormon apologist to a non-believer and critic of the LDS Church.
Please join us with your questions and comments!
Show Notes:
- Radio Free Mormon
- Mormonism Live, co-hosted with Bill Reel
- Mormon Stories episode featuring Radio Free Mormon
- Mormon Stories episode featuring Gerardo Sumano
- Mormon Stories episode featuring Bart Ehrman
- RFM's interview with Kerry Shirts
- Bill Moyers' series Genesis: A Living Conversation
- Bart Ehrman's New Testament course
- Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley
- The Book of Mormon on Trial by Andrew Knaupp and J. Milton Rich
- Sustaining and Defending the Faith by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet
- Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet
- Louis Midgley's review of Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet in the journal Review of Books on the Book of Mormon
- Alma 34:34, with surrounding textual context
- Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It Into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
- Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
- The Lost Books of the Bible: Being All the Gospels, Epistles and Other Pieces Now Extant Attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ by Solomon J. Schepps
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm your host, John DeLin. |
| 0:06.4 | It is my birthday. |
| 0:08.0 | It is August 20th, 2021. |
| 0:11.4 | I am 52 stinking years old. |
| 0:14.1 | No, 52 amazing years old. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm just getting over a cold and I am super excited for my birthday present today. |
| 0:24.1 | My birthday present today of all days is to have radio free Mormon in the house. |
| 0:31.2 | Radio free Mormon, how you doing, brother? |
| 0:33.0 | I am doing great. |
| 0:33.8 | Thank you, Dr. DeLin. |
| 0:35.0 | Happy birthday. |
| 0:36.5 | Thank you. |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.8 | You're a little younger than 52, right? |
| 0:40.8 | I'm a little bit older, but now you're at that age where you have as many years under your belt as cards and a deck. |
| 0:47.9 | Is that a good thing? |
| 0:49.0 | I guess so. |
| 0:49.6 | It's 52 cards. |
| 0:50.7 | Last time we were together, you did a card trick and I had no idea how you did it. |
| 0:55.1 | It was amazing. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't even remember that, but I'm glad it was amazing. |
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