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Mormon Stories Podcast

1521: Losing Trust in Mormon Church Leadership - Matt and Stephanie Purcell Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2021

⏱️ 153 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our interview, Matt and Stephanie Purcell dive into the effects infertility and postpartum depression took on them, the wheels that started turning in their heads after the 2015 exclusion policy, and much, much more. We are so lucky to get to hear Matt and Stephanie's journey and hope you enjoy Carah Burrell as your host on this epic two-part Mormon Story!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to part two of our interview with Matt and Stephanie.

0:07.5

Hey guys.

0:08.5

Hey.

0:09.5

Hey, so if you guys are just joining us, you should have already watched or listened

0:16.6

to Matt and Stephanie's part one.

0:19.8

We talked a lot about Matt being sexually abused by his grandpa who was somebody who

0:25.5

was very much a higher up within the LDS church, talking about a lot of the issues there

0:30.7

with systemic abuse and cover-ups and people not being able to speak out about things

0:36.7

that have happened to them within the church.

0:38.4

And then we also got into Matt's mission and talking about his mission called to Cleveland

0:46.3

and struggling with pornography and masturbation growing up.

0:51.0

And we also chatted with Stephanie about, let's see, just like a kind of tumultuous,

0:58.8

parents' divorce growing up in Utah County and things that happened in the beginning

1:05.8

of their marriage and how things kind of progressed with their infertility, moving out

1:10.6

to go to law school at Notre Dame.

1:13.4

And then I think right kind of where we left off was talking about, I think getting into

1:20.4

more of the infertility talk and trying to have kids.

1:24.2

And so if you guys are ready for it, we're going to go into a part two now, talking about

1:29.8

what happened as they started to work through their infertility issues and what led them

1:36.0

to start to question leadership of the LDS church.

1:41.4

And I think a lot of the Mormon stories viewers will relate to a lot of their stories.

1:45.4

So I hope you guys are buckled in, ready for part two of this super epic Mormon story

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