1698: Losing Faith as a BYU Professor - Louisa Killian Pt 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 140 minutes
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Summary
After her marriage to a "worthy" priesthood-holding Returned Missionary goes south when her husband is arrested for fraud, Louisa Killian finds love & equality in a relationship outside of the Church and a fulfilling career teaching dance at BYU. But when it's time to renew her Temple Recommend to keep her ecclesiastical endorsement (a requirement for employment at the Church school), Louisa finds that honesty has severe consequences.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I am your host John |
| 0:04.3 | Delin. It is October 11th, 2022. And today we have in store for you what I think is going |
| 0:11.4 | to be a really important and valuable episode. I am here joined by my wonderful brilliant |
| 0:17.6 | wise partner, Margie Delin. Hey, Margie. Hey, I'm excited. I'm excited today. Yeah, |
| 0:23.0 | me too. It's always so glad to have you. Thank you. And we are here today to interview |
| 0:28.1 | Louisa Killian. Hey, Louisa. Welcome. Hello. Thank you. Just to give everyone kind of the |
| 0:34.1 | brief introduction, Louisa has been interviewed on was a Mormonism live or Radio Free Mormon. |
| 0:39.6 | Mormonism live. Yeah. And we love Bill Reale and Radio Free Mormon. But there are so many |
| 0:45.0 | really valuable and interesting things about today's story. If there were kind of going |
| 0:49.0 | to be a headline, Louisa was a dance professor at junk professor at Brigham Young University |
| 0:55.4 | Provo. And during that time, started to have challenges or struggles with her testimony. |
| 1:02.3 | And so because that sort of scenario is now in the news with BYU tightening its rules |
| 1:08.6 | around temple recommends and worthiness and its faculty, along with the church recently |
| 1:14.5 | asking that the priest penitent privilege for BYU professors be eliminated while they |
| 1:22.0 | are still preserving it for sexual abuse victims for all those reasons. This topic of losing |
| 1:27.1 | your faith at BYU, especially as a professor is really timely and something that we haven't |
| 1:31.7 | covered a ton. We've covered it at BYU Idaho a little bit with Ryan and Holly Mealson, |
| 1:35.7 | I believe, and maybe we've covered it before. But it's in the news again. So I'm excited |
| 1:39.9 | about that. We're also going to be talking about marrying really early and young within |
| 1:44.9 | Mormonism and the challenges that can accompany that. And early divorce, I guess as well. And |
| 1:52.9 | then of course today's episode is kind of thrive themed. So we've been experimenting |
| 1:59.6 | with this thrive series with Margie. And today is certainly going to be thrive flavored, |
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