1711: Olympic Champion Wrestler Mark Schultz Leaves Mormonism

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2022

⏱️ 233 minutes

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Summary

Mark Schultz was a 3-time NCAA champion, Olympic champion and 2-time World champion wrestler. He also joined the Mormon church in 1991 shortly after being hired as a BYU wrestling coach. Mark coached wrestling at BYU for around a decade.

A few months ago, Mark started studying factual LDS church history - focusing specifically on Joseph Smith's polygamy revelation in D&C Section 132 - and lost his Mormon faith. He reached out to John this week requesting to tell his story.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of
0:02.3	Warmestores Podcast.
0:03.5	I'm your host, John DeLin.
0:04.9	It is December 28th, 2022.
0:07.4	We're live streaming right now.
0:09.3	I am just so amazingly excited to have with us today,
0:13.7	Mark Schultz.
0:15.1	It's not every day that an Olympic gold medalist and
0:19.9	world champion reaches out to you to say,
0:22.4	hey, can I should we do a Warmestores podcast episode?
0:25.7	Maybe I invited Mark, but that's not the point.
0:27.9	If you don't know about Mark, you really should.
0:31.1	Mark was a three time NCE AA wrestling championship.
0:35.1	I believe the University of Oklahoma,
0:37.3	he won an Olympic gold medal in wrestling in 1984.
0:40.7	In 1985 and 1987, I believe he was a world champion wrestler.
0:45.7	I think he was in the Gittles Book of World Records for
0:49.1	the most world or Olympic titles by US wrestler.
0:52.1	He can correct me if I've got that wrong.
0:54.2	He has a New York Times best selling memoir called Foxcatcher,
0:58.1	the true story of my brother's murder,
1:00.2	John Dupont's madness and the quest for Olympic gold,
	...

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