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Mormon Stories Podcast

468: Jason and Taryn Nelson-Seawright on Leaving the Church after Returning Part 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In November, 2005 Mormon Stories interviewed Jason Nelson-Seawright (known online as "Roasted Tomatoes") and Taryn Nelson-Seawright ("Serenity Valley"). In this touching, 2-part series Taryn discussed how she resigned from the church as a teenager, but ultimately felt called by God to become re-baptized into the LDS church -- ultimately becoming sealed in the temple. In this episode, nine years later, Jason and Taryn discuss their decision to leave the church completely. They also discuss how their experiences with Autism Spectrum Disorder affected this decision.

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The

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Modern

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Stories

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Podcast

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The Modern

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Stories

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Podcast

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Mormon Stories

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Podcast is a production of the Open Stories Foundation.

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All donations to Mormon Stories are fully tax deductible and go directly towards keeping

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the podcast alive and towards building a community of support for Mormons like you.

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To support the podcast or to join the community, please become a monthly subscriber today at

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MormonStories.org.

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All right, Jason and Terran, we really enjoy it hearing your story and I can tell

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you guys have put a lot of thought and a lot of heart into your decisions.

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And now I'm going to, you know, kind of do what I often do and just kind of, I've been

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stored up a bunch of questions and I'm going to just kind of offer them in serial nature.

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Is that all right?

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And that's serial with an S, not serial with a C.

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I would really love some prostitutes point, actually.

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It's been kind of a long talk.

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