1784: The Making of Mormon Bishop Bill Reel - Bill and Amanda Reel Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 179 minutes
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Summary
Discover the captivating story of Bill and Amanda Reel as they share their extraordinary journey through Mormonism, exploring Bill's transformation from a troubled youth seeking fatherly guidance to a dedicated bishop caught in a web of doubt and awakening. Unveil the challenges faced by this couple within the Mormon patriarchy, their relentless pursuit for truth, and how their experiences ultimately led them on a path of self-discovery and personal growth. Join us as we delve into the untold chapters of their lives, exposing the complexities and contradictions of faith, family, and the power of questioning within a religious institution.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another additional Mormon source podcast. I'm your host, John |
| 0:04.0 | Delin. It is May 29th, 2023. And we are super excited to have in studio a legend of Mormon |
| 0:13.4 | podcasting, none other than Bill Reale, host of Mormon discussion podcast and of Mormonism |
| 0:21.0 | live podcast with radio free Mormon and a network of other Mormon theme podcasts, but |
| 0:28.4 | a friend and someone who has made a huge impact in the lives of so many for so many years. And |
| 0:35.2 | we are just excited to have him finally in studio to kind of tell his story. Maybe it's |
| 0:42.6 | a little more vulnerability than he's even short in the past, but also with high quality |
| 0:48.0 | video and audio, which we've never done before. Hey, Bill, how are you, my friend? Thanks |
| 0:51.6 | for joining us. Yeah, gracious to both of you guys to invite us out to do this. And we're |
| 0:56.6 | super excited to have this conversation. Yeah. And if that weren't enough, we have his wife, |
| 1:02.9 | Amanda, real here to provide color. Hey, Amanda, how are you? Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:09.0 | He's a legendary Amanda. Thank you. Absolutely. Yeah. Thanks for joining us, Amanda. And of course, |
| 1:16.5 | now you know that Margie is here running shotgun today. Hey, Margie. Hey. All right. So yeah, |
| 1:23.0 | most of you will know Bill real very well. But if you don't just as a very quick recap, |
| 1:29.4 | Bill real was a sitting bishop for the Mormon church. He's a convertor of the church. He became |
| 1:36.5 | a bishop at what age 29 and 29. And for some reason, started listening Mormon stories podcast as a |
| 1:43.3 | sitting bishop and reached out to me while he was a sitting bishop, he was the first sitting bishop |
| 1:48.3 | that I ever ended up interviewing on Mormon stories as a sitting bishop. We've interviewed a few |
| 1:53.1 | since. Yeah. But eventually when I ran a file with the church and got, got us communicated, |
| 2:01.3 | Bill kind of started a podcast to kind of maybe take over what Mormon stories was trying to do, |
| 2:06.7 | which was to provide a balanced view of Mormonism. He ran that podcast called Mormon discussion |
| 2:11.8 | for many years. And then eventually he got in his own trouble with the church. It was actually |
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