1501: Mormon Inoculation
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 169 minutes
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Summary
Join us this Wednesday at noon as Luna Corbden, Marc Oslund, Gerardo, and John discuss the Mormon Church's efforts to use the psychological theory of inoculation to pre-expose the youth to weakened versions of the troubling history through an updated CES and Sunday School curriculum.
"... Please, before you send them into the world, inoculate your students by providing faithful, thoughtful, and accurate interpretation of gospel doctrine, the scriptures, our history, and those topics that are sometimes misunderstood.
The effort for gospel transparency and spiritual inoculation through a thoughtful study of doctrine and history, coupled with a burning testimony, is the best antidote we have to help students avoid and/or deal with questions, doubt, or faith crises they may face in this information age."
M. Russell Ballard, February 26, 2016
Show Notes:
- Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control by Luna Lindsey Corbden
- "Examining Mormon Mind Control" with Luna Lindsey Corbden on Mormon Stories
- Mormon Stories interview with Marc Oslund
- M. Russell Ballard's February 2016 CES Employees Devotional encouraging "inoculation"
- "Sister to Sister," 2019 BYU Women's Conference
- "Youth Need 'Inoculation' Against the World," by Melissa Merrill, Ensign, 2004
- "Will You Engage in the Wrestle?" a 2016 devotional by Sheri Dew at BYU-Idaho
- "Doctrinal Mastery," a 2016 Seminary training by Chad H. Webb
- Mormon Stories' interview with Sandra Tanner
- "Boys Need Heroes Close By," by President Spencer W. Kimball at General Conference 1976
- Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft "Freedom or Captivity," by Matthew Flitton, Ensign, 2018
- "Dispelling the Illusion of Invulnerability: The Motivations and Mechanisms of Resistance to Persuasion," by BJ Sagarin, et. al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2002
- Marc Oslund's Instagram
- Luna Cordben's Twitter
- Luna Corbden's website
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:04.8 | Dr. John Delin. It is November 3rd, 2021. And this afternoon here in Utah, we have what |
| 0:12.8 | we think is a very important and hopefully very interesting and compelling episode for |
| 0:18.1 | you to participate in. Listen to and if you're joining us live, even share today, we're |
| 0:23.6 | going to be talking about the Mormon teaching or practice called inoculation. And we'll be getting |
| 0:31.2 | into what that means. But that is what we're going to be talking about. And today we are super |
| 0:37.1 | excited to have with us an illustrious panel. We have the Herardo Smono back as co-host and he is |
| 0:44.9 | kind of the producer organizer of today's episode. Hey, Herardo. Hey, John. Welcome back to Mormon |
| 0:50.6 | Stories. Thanks. Thanks. Happy to be here. And we also have two other returning guests to |
| 0:57.8 | Mormon Stories podcast. We have the Luna Corp. in author of recovery agency and an epic, I don't |
| 1:04.3 | know, 16. How many hours Luna? Yes, 17 hours and a few minutes. So 17 hours of the 31 tools or |
| 1:13.3 | techniques of coercion and undue influence that high demand religions use. It's an amazing book |
| 1:19.6 | recovering agency and Luna is an amazing mind and thinker and thought leader. So Luna, we're so |
| 1:25.0 | glad to have you back on Mormon Stories podcast. Thanks a lot, John. I Luna's book. And we have with us |
| 1:32.6 | the one, the only Mark Oziland who Mark how many hours did we do on Mormon Stories podcast? |
| 1:38.8 | 11, I think John right around 11. But Mark is awesome because he was an all-American baseball player, |
| 1:44.8 | high school standout and football as well. BYU, all-American baseball player. But he, Mark, |
| 1:52.8 | Mark himself has an epic story about how he kind of sacrificed a professional baseball career |
| 1:59.3 | and ended up as a Mormon seminary teacher and then how that didn't quite work out. And by this |
| 2:04.1 | dream team of like Herardo as co-producer, producer, Luna as social psychology expert and Mark as |
| 2:12.3 | someone who has served and worked in the church seminarianist program, we've got a all-star lineup. |
| 2:19.5 | So I'm super excited. Mark, I told you offline, sorry about your Dodgers, but I know you're happy |
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