1862: Mormon Bishops Discuss Their Experiences
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 202 minutes
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Summary
Content warning: mentions of child abuse, assault, suicidalality
Four former Mormon Bishops - Beau, Nick, Jedd, and Rob - have an intimate discussion about the oft-hidden realities of serving in Mormon leadership, including the lack of training on handling abuse cases, near-suicidal stress levels, the painful contradictions between doctrine and human needs, and the ways bureaucratic priorities seem to trump pastoral care. With empathy and nuance, they peel back the curtain on issues like LGBTQ exclusion, leader worship, doubted spiritual 'gifts', unhealthy perfectionism, and the people left wounded when conference talks supersede mental health expertise - all while recognizing the very real human desire to do good amidst institutions not structured to support it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast I'm your host |
| 0:03.4 | John Delinn. It is February 2nd 2024 and we're excited to have a follow-on to |
| 0:10.5 | yesterday's historic Mormon stories interview. |
| 0:13.2 | Yesterday we interviewed Bishop Nick Jones and his amazing wife |
| 0:17.8 | Amanda and it's already gotten, I don't know, 60,000 views in less than 24 hours. |
| 0:24.3 | It's definitely one of the most popular |
| 0:27.0 | Mormon themed episodes we've ever done. |
| 0:29.4 | And in that episode where we talked about Bishop Nick Jones resigning as a Mormon Bishop |
| 0:36.0 | from the pulpit which was kind of a historic thing that happened I think |
| 0:39.4 | December of 2023 we decided that and this was after my good friend Bo who you're about to meet again on |
| 0:47.2 | Mormon stories under his recommendation. We thought it'd be super cool to bring a panel of |
| 0:52.4 | Mormon bishops and when panel of Mormon bishops. |
| 0:53.8 | I'm going to say Mormon bishops, I mean ex bishops. |
| 0:56.4 | But in Mormonism, there's the saying, |
| 0:58.6 | once a Bishop was a bishop. |
| 0:59.8 | So these are all still Mormon bishops. |
| 1:01.8 | They're just not currently serving as bishops, |
| 1:03.7 | but we're bringing a panel together of Mormon bishops |
| 1:07.0 | to talk about their experiences as bishops, |
| 1:09.7 | which is super cool. |
| 1:11.0 | I do want to note a couple quick interesting things. For those who have never been. is a |
| 1:15.0 | super cool cool. |
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