1621: Suffering Abuse in the Shadow of Mormon Prophets - Christine Burton

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2022

⏱️ 226 minutes

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Summary

Christine Carol Robinson Burton is the niece of the late Mormon prophet Gordon B. Hinckley, and the daughter of Oliver Preston Robinson and Christine Hinckley Robinson. Christine's father, Preston or "Pres" was a prominent professor of advertising a the University of Utah, general manager of the Deseret News Publishing Company and editor of the Deseret News, and a personal mentor to the late Mormon prophet Thomas S. Monson. Preston was mentioned seven different times in the LDS Church-approved biography of Thomas S. Monson.

In Christine's heartbreaking and inspiring story, she relates several tragic Mormon-related stories, including:

Experiencing psychological, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her parents.
Feeling deep confusion trying to reconcile her parents' abuse with her own self-worth, given that her parents/family were publicly lauded on multiple occasions by several Mormon prophets as being exemplary. This included her father being called as mission president in England, and both of her parents receiving their Second Anointing after the abuse.
Her attempts to tell both Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson (as sitting prophets/apostles) about the abuse she experienced at the hands of her parents - wherein she was told by both that she needed to "put it behind her."
The death by suicide of her gay son.
Her loss of Mormon faith.
Her commitment to helping others heal and grow after Mormonism.

We hope you find value in this heartbreaking and inspiring episode.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, my name is John Dillin and we are here in the Mormon Stories podcast
0:06.1	studios.
0:07.1	It is May 25th, 2022 and we are here today excited to have the opportunity to interview
0:15.4	someone very special to someone special to me.
0:19.1	Her name is Christine Carol Robinson Burton.
0:22.5	Hi Christine, welcome to Mormon Stories Studios.
0:26.0	Hi John, thank you so much.
0:27.7	I'm very happy to be here.
0:29.9	And the person very special to me is Mark Burton and his wonderful wife Barb, Mark and
0:37.0	I have become dear friends and Mark assured me, well, Mark loves his mom Christine, but
0:44.4	in addition to loving her and wanting her story to be recorded, her Mormon story to be
0:48.8	recorded, he also feels like she has lived such an interesting Mormon life, including
0:56.1	having a grandfather who ran Deseret news.
1:01.1	Your father ran Deseret news.
1:04.0	You said you've known how many Mormon prophets or apostles?
1:08.3	I've had personal relationship with nine.
1:11.1	Nine of the presidents of the church.
1:13.7	A close personal experience and relationship with three.
1:18.6	Okay.
1:19.6	And then your mom was on the general relief side board for the Mormon church.
1:23.0	Yes she was.
1:24.0	Yeah, so you're like Mormon blue blood.
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