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Mormon Stories Podcast

1475: Mormon Seminary Teacher Leaves the Church - Laura Schnell - Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In our final segment with Laura Schnell, she describes her faith deconstruction, responds to criticisms, and expresses the immense beauty she’s found rediscovering her own voice as a post-Mormon woman.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to part three of my interview with Laura Schnell, former

0:05.3

CES teacher instructor in Utah County.

0:09.2

We've done two episodes with Laura.

0:11.0

One was about her upbringing as a member of the church born in Columbia, immigrated to the

0:16.0

United States.

0:17.0

Just her her life as a Colombian immigrant, Mormon woman of color.

0:21.8

And that was an epic and important part one.

0:24.4

Part two was all about her experience teaching seminary for the Mormon church church education

0:30.5

system into Utah County.

0:33.0

And as a friend of of Mark O'sland, who is also on Mormon stories just a couple months

0:37.8

ago, shout out to Mark.

0:39.7

And we ended part two with Laura deciding to no longer work for the church of Jesus Christ

0:45.4

of the letter.

0:46.4

I say, it's in if you want to hear that full story and you haven't listened to go to

0:48.5

the center part one, then listen to part two.

0:50.7

And now we're starting part three, which is basically asking the question, how does this

0:55.8

30 something lifelong orthodox devout Latina Mormon woman who is as committed in his orthodox

1:03.0

and in devout as they come and who taught for the CES system for six years, how in the

1:08.2

world could she ever kind of start to question her faith?

1:11.5

Well, it leads to that.

1:12.8

And then, you know, where has that faith journey taken her?

1:16.0

And so Laura, welcome back to Mormon stories for part three.

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