528: Carson Calderwood - Enduring a Disciplinary Council as a Matter of Conscience

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 March 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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10401436_10153066297053798_1624481439957468610_n Carson Calderwood is an LDS dentist and father of four living in Maple Valley, Washington. He served an LDS mission in Argentina, married his wife, Marisa, in an LDS temple, recently served as an LDS seminary teacher in Maple valley for two years, and served faithfully in the LDS church for almost two decades. After experiencing significant questions and doubts a few years go, Carson realized how many local LDS church members were struggling over matters of faith, and began trying to help local members of his ward and stake find joy and healing amidst their LDS faith crises.

After showing public support for Ordain Women, and after publicly expressing his doubts about several LDS church truth claims (e.g., polygamy, polyandry, Book of Mormon and Abraham historicity), Carson is now being charged with apostasy by the LDS Church, and by his Maple Valley, Washington stake president. A disciplinary council for Carson is set to be scheduled within the next few days or weeks.

This is Carson's story, wherein he explains why he objects to LDS disciplinary councils for apostasy, and why he would prefer to be excommunicated than to resign his LDS membership and walk away quietly.

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0:59.2	I'm your host John DeLin. It is March 25th, 2015 and I am really excited for today's interview.
1:08.4	Today we're going to be interviewing a man named Carson Calderwood and just to give you a
1:16.3	really brief overview about Carson's story. We'll hear more about it but basically Carson is
1:22.8	being threatened with a disciplinary council just to give a tiny bit more background overall about
1:29.9	why we would interview Carson about that. You know the focus of Mormon stories going forward is
1:36.2	going to be on many things. We're going to do a lot of the great interviews we've always done
1:42.4	but one of the things we want to focus on at least for the next few years is what I'm calling Mormon
1:47.5	transitions. What I mean by that is there are just thousands and even tens of thousands of
1:54.0	LDS church members who are leaving orthodoxy each year. Now when you leave orthodoxy that just
2:01.2	means you sort of leave the traditionally believing, literal believing mindset and sometimes
2:06.7	sort of the orthoprax position of doing and believing everything the church teaches and that
2:12.8	can lead you in many directions. It can lead you to become a more liberal or progressive
2:16.8	unorthodox member. It can lead you to sort of stay in the church but just suffer in silence as
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