1737: Losing Faith When Your Child’s a Mormon Missionary: Julie and Jill Durrant
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2023
⏱️ 239 minutes
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Summary
Jill and Julie Durrant share their Mormon upbringing and the challenges they faced within the faith. They discuss the expectations placed on Mormon children and the milestones they must achieve to be considered successful in the community. Julie's scrupulosity and the patriarchal blessing she received add to her struggles. Jill talks about the superiority you can feel as a Mormon and the cognitive dissonance she experienced when her sister, Alli, came out as a lesbian. Jill went on a mission to find answers about her siblings, and Julie's faith crisis begins in earnest after talking with her son, Tom. They discuss the complications of navigating family dynamics and the difficulty of leaving the church. Ultimately, the Durrant family's story is one of resilience, growth, and learning to navigate the complexities of life within and outside of Mormonism.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host John |
| 0:04.6 | Delin. I'm here with my brilliant and wise partner Margie Hey Margie. Hey babe. |
| 0:09.8 | Today we are here to share a story about what happens when you are an adult parent of adult |
| 0:17.0 | children and you lose your LDS or Mormon faith while one of your children is serving a Mormon |
| 0:24.9 | mission and you raise them to be a really good missionary. That is what the topic is for today. |
| 0:31.7 | I get these panicky emails from questioning and adding Mormon parents probably monthly where |
| 0:39.4 | it's like what do I do? I no longer believe what my kid is a missionary and I don't want to lose |
| 0:43.5 | them or alienate them. And months ago I was super thrilled to meet Julie Durant. Hey Julie. Hey |
| 0:52.8 | Welcome to Mormon Stories. Thank you. Happy to be here. Yeah and when we were talking over Indian food |
| 1:00.0 | I learned that your daughter Jill was serving a mission when you guys lost your faith. True. She was |
| 1:06.4 | that's true. Yeah. So we're going to tell that story and Jill also welcome to Mormon Stories |
| 1:11.8 | podcast. Yes I'm excited to be here. Yeah. All right so that's what we're going to be talking about |
| 1:17.3 | today. Please subscribe to us on YouTube or on Facebook wherever on the social media is because |
| 1:23.6 | that's super helpful. So normally Julie and Jill we like to begin these types of episodes by kind |
| 1:30.6 | of stating an intention about why we're doing this episode and maybe why we're not doing this |
| 1:35.4 | episode. So do either of you want to share kind of your intentions for why you're coming on Mormon |
| 1:41.2 | Stories. Well I would say one of my big intentions was I wanted my mom to do Mormon Stories and so I was |
| 1:48.0 | like I'll be there. I'll support you in it because she's she's got a great story and she's a great |
| 1:53.0 | mother. I would say something that I don't want is my missionary friends or anything like that to |
| 2:01.2 | fill offended or anything like that. So you're not I guess I guess maybe I'll ask if this is right |
| 2:07.0 | you're not here to turn down the church to turn down faith to denigrate Mormon belief or Mormonism |
| 2:12.8 | is that right? Exactly. Yeah just kind of share my story and our family story and kind of what's |
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