265: BYU Professor and LDS Church Employee Kendall Wilcox Comes out as Gay Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 July 2011

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Kendall Wilcox is a lifelong member of the LDS church, returned missionary, BYU graduate, filmmaker, BYU professor, producer for BYUTV..and he is (now) an openly gay man. This is his story, and below are the links to his 2 new initiatives: 1) Empathy First (a non-profit dedicated to promoting empathy, and 2) his documentary entitled Far Between.

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0:30.6	Well, Kendall, this has been a fascinating story and one that I think is going to resonate
0:37.0	with a lot of people, inform a lot of people, help a lot of people, and you know, one of
0:43.2	the main reasons we brought you on is to talk about your film that you're working on and
0:48.3	your foundation that you want to start, and you had asked that we bring on a couple more
0:54.0	gentlemen to help us in that conversation.
0:58.7	So what I want to do is introduce both of them now and then have a little discussion
1:04.0	about where we are as a church today and then talk about where we need to go and how
1:11.6	your foundation and your film might help us get there.
1:14.6	Does that make sense?
1:15.6	Does it does to me?
1:17.3	Okay.
1:18.3	So what I'd like to do now is introduce two guests who have been with us the whole time,
1:22.2	that they've been on mute, so we couldn't hear them eat their fritos or their dinner.
1:30.9	The two people they're bringing on are Joseph Brum and John Hastings.
1:35.1	And what I'll ask each to do first Joseph then John, is just introduce yourselves a little
1:40.1	bit.
1:41.1	You know, tell us your age, if you're comfortable, kind of your status with the church,
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