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25. Why do people leave the Church? Jana Riess with Melissa Inouye

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode, Melissa Inouye and Jana Riess discuss what research and experience have taught them about why young Latter-day Saints become disaffected from the church, either temporarily or permanently, and how we might best respond to and support them during this process. Jana Riess is an independent researcher and author — her latest book, The Next Mormons, explores this big question. Melissa Inouye is a professor of Asian Studies at Auckland University in New Zealand. Melissa Wei-Tsing ...

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Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from

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Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the

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Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what

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restoration really means as the church moves into its third century

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and that's exactly what Patrick does. If you're like me and you've ever wondered how restoring Israel

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can be relevant to you, you've got to read this book. Patrick shows how as members of the

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church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the

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marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has

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totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.

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I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.

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It's the kind of book you want everyone you know to be reading to so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for

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Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the

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near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.

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Welcome to the Faith Matters podcast.

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In this episode, Melissa Inoue and Janner Reese

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discuss what research and experience have taught them about why young

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Latter-day Saints become disaffected from the Church, either temporarily or permanently, and how we

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might best respond to and support them during this process.

1:15.0

Janerise is an independent researcher and author.

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Her latest book, The Next Mormons, explores this big question.

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Melissa Inoue is a professor of Asian studies at

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