1709: How to Stay in the Mormon Church - Carol Lynn Pearson Pt 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Carol discusses ways that she has enabled herself mentally and spiritually to stay in the Church, despite periods of inactivity and varying levels of hope. Has she gone through a “faith crisis” as many know it? What did she keep and what has she thrown away? Why does she stay?
How does Carol feel she makes a difference by staying in and also how and why has she been able to avoid excommunication, a common fate for those who undertake advocacy in the Church and come under the ire of leadership?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am one of your hosts for today John Delin |
| 0:05.5 | I am here with my partner in Truth and Righteousness |
| 0:09.1 | Margie Delin. Hey Margie. Hey babe. Thanks for joining. Yes |
| 0:12.7 | We're here in March 2 |
| 0:15.2 | of an interview with one of our heroes a giant in our lives |
| 0:20.1 | The one the only |
| 0:22.1 | Carolyn Pearson. Hey Carolyn Pearson |
| 0:24.1 | Well hi there. Welcome back. Thank you so much. Great to be with you. We just spent an over an hour |
| 0:32.6 | with an episode that we're going to call giving God another chance and is basically just an updated view of view on how |
| 0:40.9 | author and poet Carolyn Pearson and and leaders Carolyn Pearson how she views God |
| 0:47.6 | Introducing the idea of the feminine divine into your sense of God and |
| 0:52.2 | You know just this idea of giving God another chance. That's part one. We referenced a million books and past Mormon Stories episodes |
| 1:01.3 | I'm not going to rehash all those go watch part one along with all the other references and links we have |
| 1:07.2 | Well, we're going to be answering today as a primary part of today's episode |
| 1:12.2 | We're going to be trying to answer this question. How can someone like Carolyn Pearson who cares about social justice? |
| 1:18.8 | Who cares about women? Who's a feminist? Who cares about race issues? Who cares about history and |
| 1:27.4 | LGBT people who cares about all these things? How can she |
| 1:32.7 | Remain a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where she even |
| 1:38.9 | Attends church. How does that happen so many people like of course? |
| 1:43.2 | There's still I don't know four or five million people in the world that remain members of the church |
| 1:47.6 | But oftentimes when somebody becomes let's just say more progressive not politically |
| 1:55.1 | Necessarily, but in their sensibilities around issues like feminism race racism social justice historical truth claims |
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