1847: Mormon Church in Decline in Utah? w/ Dr. Ryan Cragun
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Is the Mormon Church in decline in its home state: Utah? Is the Mormon church over-reporting its Utah membership? Is the Mormon church in decline worldwide? Join us as we interview sociologist Dr. Ryan Cragan we we discuss his new article: "Mormons Are No Longer a Majority in Utah: Causes, Consequences, and Implications for the Sociology of Religion."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast episode of 2024. |
| 0:08.0 | Happy New Year everyone. |
| 0:09.0 | Thanks for joining us today. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we are going to be bringing back to Mormon stories a guest who has |
| 0:15.7 | joined us many times in the past. We've got Dr. Ryan Craigen here to sort of help |
| 0:20.9 | answer the question is the Mormon Church in decline in Utah. |
| 0:24.4 | And we're also going to be just providing kind of a little bit of the background and the history |
| 0:30.8 | of the Mormon Church's sort of growth or shrinkage |
| 0:35.0 | over the past several years, if not decades. |
| 0:38.0 | And so we really hope that you all enjoy this presentation. |
| 0:41.0 | We are live streaming tonight so we welcome all of |
| 0:45.3 | our YouTube and Facebook viewers and listeners and we're wishing you all a |
| 0:49.5 | happy New Year so without any further ado, let's bring back Dr. Ryan Craigen to |
| 0:56.7 | Mormon Stories podcast. Hey Ryan. Hey, how we doing? Good. Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:01.0 | My pleasure. |
| 1:02.6 | Hey, do you want to tell us, give us a little bit of a background, |
| 1:05.2 | just so that people who aren't familiar with you |
| 1:07.7 | kind of know a little about you and what you do? |
| 1:11.5 | Sure. |
| 1:12.4 | So I'm a college professor, right? |
| 1:15.7 | Got my PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 2007 and since then I've worked at the University |
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