506: Carrie Sheffield Pt. 2 -- Mormonism and Politics, Conservatism and Mitt Romney

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In the world of politics and media, Carrie Sheffield is a veritable dynamo. She has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, PBS, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, BBC Radio and more, as an expert on politics and the economy. Graduating with a Master's Degree in Public Policy from Harvard, she went on to do stints at Goldman Sachs and the Washington Times before settling in as a public policy analyst all over TV and radio.

But Carrie also has a Mormon story. Growing up in the church, then later leaving and exploring other faiths before finding peace with Stoicism, she is also a sort of rare breed as a post-Mormon who still clings tight to deeply conservative values.

In this episode, we talk about her conservative outlook, how and why she still identifies with conservatism after leaving the church as well as her thoughts on Mitt Romney, the recent mid-term elections and more.

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0:49.0	Another additional Mormon Stories podcast, I'm your host John DeLin.
0:53.0	And this is part two of my interview with Carrie Sheffield.
0:57.0	In our first segment, we talked with Carrie about growing up in the church, going to BYU about how she kind of started a crisis of faith while at BYU,
1:10.0	which eventually led her kind of out of the church.
1:14.0	She went to Washington DC and ultimately to Harvard, studied public policy, politics, that type of stuff.
1:27.0	And now she lives in New York City and she's become kind of a rising star as far as I'm concerned in terms of commentary, political commentary.
1:38.0	She's been on Fox News, real time with Bill Marr.
1:42.0	She's written in many of the premier publications, you know, Wall Street Journal, Time, New York Times, etc.
1:50.0	And she's just really super fun and interesting and nice.
1:53.0	We talked about stoicism and what that meant to her in helping her take a new approach to life after transitioning out of Mormonism.
2:03.0	I really, really recommend that first hour, if you have the first two hours, if you haven't had a chance to listen to them.
2:09.0	But now we're going to totally just turn our emphasis to politics.
2:15.0	And so Carrie, you know, when I think about people transitioning away from Mormonism, I actually read a report over the weekend by the Pew Report.
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