1551: How a Mormon Bishop’s Sexual Abuse Affected our Faith - Kolby & Cami Reddish
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
After an epic retelling of their time trying to protect the children in their Idaho home ward, Cami and Kolby give us a look into how that ordeal changed their faith in the Mormon church in this epic second part of their interview.
Show Notes:
- CES Letter
- Matt Easton MS episode
- Race and priesthood gospel topics essay
- Saints unscripted videos about priesthood ban
- Michael Coe interview
- Brad Wilcox MS episode
- Thrive beyond religion website
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories Podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm your host, John DeLin. |
| 0:05.6 | It is February 17th and we are in part two of our interview with Colby and Kimmy Reddish. |
| 0:13.4 | Is that right? |
| 0:14.4 | Did I get the names right? |
| 0:15.4 | Yeah, you did. |
| 0:16.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:17.4 | And we just got done with an epic three and a half hour interview where Colby and Kimmy |
| 0:22.5 | talk about being racist, faithful Mormons, getting married in the temple, having kids, |
| 0:28.4 | and living in Idaho, Colby's in attorney and finding out that their Mormon bishop was |
| 0:36.2 | a abuser, a sexual abuser of children. |
| 0:39.5 | And so they told this epic story of the bishop getting released, of discovering what the |
| 0:45.0 | reason was that he was released because it wasn't announced and having to deal with |
| 0:51.1 | a war in a stake and a church that seemed to want to quiet it, hide it, and not do everything |
| 0:58.1 | it could to protect the children and honestly to kind of support the victims. |
| 1:03.8 | And it's a really important episode. |
| 1:05.2 | We know that this is a systemic problem in the church and we know that this has happened |
| 1:09.9 | thousands and tens of thousands of times within the Mormon church. |
| 1:13.5 | And so we think it's a groundbreaking and an important episode to help the Mormon church |
| 1:18.2 | learn to handle abuse cases better. |
| 1:20.8 | So go check out part one if you haven't already checked it out. |
| 1:24.2 | We decided to go ahead and do a part two, which is kind of like how this experience and |
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