1761: When Your Adult Mormon Children Stop Believing - Rod & Nan Osborne Pt 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
Join Nan and Rod Osborne on a journey through their lives as devoted Mormons, parents, and spouses, and discover how their faith shaped their family culture. From Nan's early years in the LDS community to Rod's conversion and mission, to the challenges of raising a large family, no topic is off-limits in this captivating interview. Along the way, they share their experiences with temple worship, gender roles, and the pressure to keep their children on the "Mormon train." However, when their children start to question their faith, Nan and Rod's world is turned upside down. Will their family survive these faith crises, or will it tear them apart?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host John Delin. It is April 4th, 2023 |
| 0:07.2 | and we are here today to hear an amazing story from an amazing couple to answer the question |
| 0:13.4 | what happens when your adult Mormon children lose their faith when you're kind of in your |
| 0:19.6 | golden years or even your retirement years and |
| 0:22.9 | and joining us in studio is my partner in truth and righteousness Margie. Hey Margie. Hello. Thanks for being here. Yeah, happy to be here. |
| 0:31.2 | And the couple of the day or the hour is Rod and Nan Osborne. Hey guys. Hey John. Hey John. Thanks for joining us in the studio. |
| 0:40.1 | Glad to be here. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:42.5 | So, you know, we often get requests for just kind of |
| 0:46.4 | faith journey stories of normal everyday Mormons and while there's no such thing as a |
| 0:51.9 | average normal everyday Mormon, everyone's stories unique. We really do feel like today fits that bill. |
| 0:57.6 | Rods a convert to the church or his parents were will talk about that. Nan was a lifelong Mormon, but they've got a really |
| 1:05.6 | powerful and typical in some ways Mormon story up until the point where some of their children as adults start losing their faith. |
| 1:11.9 | And so that's going to be what we're covering. Some of you may |
| 1:16.2 | recognize Nan and Rod or especially Nan because in addition to being an amazing couple worthy of a Mormon stories interview, I think |
| 1:24.6 | both of you or at least Nan appeared briefly on the Hulu |
| 1:28.2 | documentary Mormon No More. |
| 1:30.8 | Their daughter, Sal, along with Lena, have been on Mormon stories as a couple, but they also were featured on the Hulu Mormon No More documentary. |
| 1:42.0 | Did I get that right? Yeah. Both on every episode. Oh, you're right. So there's there's a lot of us. She's more prominent than me. |
| 1:50.7 | Thankfully. Yeah. And Sal and Lena's story is going to play into your story. Yeah. But it's not going to be about that. |
| 1:59.0 | It's going to be about your story today. Yeah. And I saw Lena. Let me guys. |
| 2:03.5 | Everyone else. So any |
| 2:06.2 | disclaimers or intentions you all want to set for why you're doing this interview before we jump right in. |
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