1543: The Alpine Utah Mormon Youth Rescue w/ Brad Wilcox
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 200 minutes
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Summary
You’ve heard of The Swedish Rescue, right? Our Mormon Stories inbox had an influx of incensed Latter-day Saints across all spectrums of belief last night as Brad Wilcox gave a fireside talk that we’re calling “The Alpine Utah Mormon Youth Rescue”. Just like the LDS church’s response to the wave of apostasy in 2012 affecting Swedish members, Brad Wilcox, professor of ancient scripture at BYU and second counselor in the Young Men general presidency spoke to the youth February 6th, 2022 in a talk about how leaving the Mormon church means “you lose everything that matters”. Join John, Gerardo, and Carah as we play clips and react to Brad explaining his reasons to the youth of the church that those who leave the faith are taking the hardest possible route in life. Other quotes include:
"Maybe instead of asking 'why did the blacks have to wait until 1978’, maybe what we should be asking is 'why did the whites and other races have to wait until 1829?’"
“We are the only Christians in the world led by Christ”
"When you walk away from this church you lose everything that matters in your life.”
Show Notes:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, Dr. John DeLin. |
| 0:05.5 | It is February 7th, |
| 0:07.5 | 2022 and we are super excited for today's episode. I am joined by my partner in goodness and truth. |
| 0:15.9 | Carabarel. Hey, Cara. Hi, John. Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Hope you guys are excited. |
| 0:22.1 | Absolutely. And if that weren't enough, we're also really excited to have with this Harado. Hey, Harado. |
| 0:28.4 | Hey, John. Hey, Cara. It's good to have you. Hello. Yeah. I'm excited for this one. I love it. |
| 0:34.9 | In the past episode with Simon that look up, Cara, that we call this the first presidency. This is the Mormon Stories first president. |
| 0:41.6 | Although I don't want to be I don't want to be president. So, Cara, can you be president? Oh, perfect. |
| 0:47.7 | Can I be your, so many ideas? Can I be your counselor? Yeah. All right. All right. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm going to be your counselor. Anyway, we've already decorated too. I know there's a candle going all sorts of good things. |
| 0:59.2 | All right. So this is a special special episode yesterday, February 6th. |
| 1:05.4 | My text app started blowing up from friends of mine in Alpine, Utah. There was a, I guess a tristake youth fireside that was hosted by none other than Brad Wilcox, |
| 1:20.1 | who is a BYU professor. He's well known. And I guess his official title is second counselor in the young men general presidency for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 1:33.0 | So it's fair to say Brad is one of the top three leaders in the entire Mormon Church over youth. That's not exaggerating. |
| 1:41.0 | And so like right under general authorities would be the auxiliary for sure. Correct. Yeah. |
| 1:46.4 | So Brad is a really big deal. He's pretty much about as close to general authorities you can come. And he gave a fireside talk that was about 50 minutes long. |
| 1:56.6 | And it was to the youth. And what I'm going to share now is the Mormon stories blog post because we have to explain kind of our format for today. |
| 2:07.2 | So first of all, one of the things that the LDS Church does is they'll sue you if you release an entire, you know, 50 minute episode. |
| 2:17.3 | And I guess I should start by saying this episode that was released was I think explosive do you think explosive is exaggerating Kara. |
| 2:24.9 | I was just telling the chat that like I've had to stop swearing all morning. |
| 2:31.1 | I've been. Yeah, it's so I have. So Kara says profanity inducing her artisans blowing. I say explosive. |
| 2:41.8 | Just to kind of give you guys a sense for some of the quotes that Brad, this is just a preview. Brad says things like you want to wake walk away from the church, walk away from anything that lets anything in your life count or matter beyond this life. |
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