1780: A Tale of Two Books w/ John Larsen

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we will review two books the Church "quietly" edited, making significant changes on the DL. The first is the Double Day version of the Book of Mormon published in 2004. The second is Rex Lee's "What do Mormons Believe? published in 1992.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John
0:04.1	Delin. It is June 26, 2023 and we are here for another monthly special edition of Mormon
0:12.9	Stories podcast. The Mormon Expressions John Larson edition of Mormon Stories podcast.
0:18.7	Today we are going to be covering two books that were secretly edited by someone in
0:24.9	the Mormon Church and here to tell us these stories is the much loved the one the only John
0:33.6	Larson of Mormon expression fame. Hey John how's it going? Hey John hey everybody thanks for
0:38.6	having me. How's Oregon treating you these days? It's good it's been a nice summer all the heat's
0:44.4	gone down to the south which is where I prefer it and we've been having a good time. Oh the illustrious
0:51.9	Luna Lindsay came in state of the year last week and so we had some great conversations. She of
0:59.1	course wrote a book on the cultish elements of the church. There it is recovering agency. Yeah very
1:07.0	brilliant individual and had a great time. Is Luna is Luna helping you write a book or something?
1:14.9	Luna is not helping me write a book. Now people tend to come to my place I think as a
1:22.9	liminal space as they're thinking about doing other things and I don't know I just think
1:31.4	Luna they came down and just hung out and we talked to philosophy. Well for those who haven't
1:38.7	checked it out there's like a four or five or six part series on Mormon stories with Luna Lindsay
1:44.0	Corbden where we cover what Luna calls the 31 flavors or tools or techniques of undo influence
1:53.3	for recovering agency or you can even think of it as 31 tools that cult leaders use to wield undo
2:00.9	influence. So it's certainly a classic series and Luna is brilliant so I'm glad Luna's getting
2:07.0	shot out John Larson. Oh for sure yeah the book is great it's dense but as Luna told me the book
2:14.2	was made that way on purpose kind of like a reference so you could you could look it up and see
2:18.9	what's going on when they try to get inside your head. All right well John Larson sometimes you have
2:24.4	some announcements before we jump into the main event any announcements for today. Nothing big
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