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Mormon Stories Podcast

238: Dan Wotherspoon - Mormonism Broad and Deep Pt. 4

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2011

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this 4-part series we interview Dan Wotherpoon. Dan has a Ph.D. in religion from Claremont Graduate School, and was Director of the Sunstone Education Foundation and Editor of Sunstone Magazine for eight years. Throughout this interview Dan discusses his early experiences with the LDS church, his crisis of faith, and his re-engagement with the church from a more deep and broad perspective.

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There's a question that I put up on Facebook.

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I invited people to ask you questions.

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I should have looked.

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I'll pass them on to you.

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None of them are real curveballs.

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One of the questions that people ask is what do you not believe?

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I guess we've covered a lot of them, but is there anything else in the LDS tradition

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that you definitely don't believe?

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Or are you just going to say you're open to everything and you don't want to

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just believe anything because you want to remain open?

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A little bit what you just said there.

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I mean, I try to keep the door open a crack.

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And I have done a lot of thinking of where something like, for instance,

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I don't really think that we had a council in heaven and Satan presented a plan.

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And Jesus presented a plan.

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And those of us who came down here chose this way,

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and the third of the host of heaven are now banished.

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And they're the reason that we sin and feel tempted and all that stuff.

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I don't believe that at all.

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I would maybe less than one half of 1%.

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