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Mormon Stories Podcast

1861: Why I Resigned as a Mormon Bishop - Nick and Amanda Jones

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 216 minutes

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Summary

A few weeks ago, Mormon Bishop Nick Jones (Mississippi) took the LDS church by storm by resigning his position as bishop from the pulpit (with the video being subsequently shared on TikTok and YouTube). Please join us for Nick and Amanda's (his wife's) story. We welcome your questions and comments.

Nick's resignation video

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host

0:04.0

John Delinn. It is February 1st, 2024 and today we are super excited to have in studio the Mormon Bishop who resigned his position as

0:17.0

Mormon Bishop from the pulpit. This is a story that we began covering a few weeks back when Bishop, Mormon Bishop, Nick Jones,

0:27.3

a video recording of him resigning as Bishop from the pulpit was shared, I believe on Tik-Tok and it started sweeping

0:35.7

sweeping around the Mormon and X-Morman internet and then we of course re-shared

0:41.2

that video here on the Mormon Story's channel and reached out to Nick or he

0:46.8

reached out to us, I forget how that happened, and we decided to have him here in studio to tell his story along with his wonderful spouse

0:57.6

Amanda and so here in studio we have and I'll say Bishop because in Mormonism once a Bishop always a Bishop right Nick Jones. Hi John how you doing doing okay. Thanks for having a song and we also have in studio Amanda, Hey, thanks for coming.

1:14.2

Thanks for having us.

1:15.2

Yeah, all the way from Mississippi.

1:17.6

And we're also, as always grateful to have my partner in life, Margie Delen.

1:24.7

Hey Margie, thanks for being here.

1:27.0

Yeah.

1:27.7

We are live streaming this one because we thought

1:29.6

it would be useful to have people sharing their questions or comments and we'll do our best to

1:36.6

integrate them throughout today's episode but welcome to everyone who's

1:39.9

joining us on YouTube, Facebook, or anywhere else.

1:43.6

Please do us a favor and subscribe to our channels,

1:46.3

hit the like button, comment, etc.

1:49.0

And we're always grateful to our donors

1:51.0

that make all this possible. So huge thanks to them. So let's go ahead and dive in. Nick and

1:58.1

Amanda, y'all aren't necessarily public people. So let's begin before we jump into your individual stories that

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