546: Rock Waterman (and Connie) Reports on his Mormon Excommunication

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 June 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

On June 3rd, 2015 Alan Rock Waterman (blogger at Pure Mormonism) was excommunicated from the LDS (Mormon) Church for blogging about his beliefs and differences with LDS Church policies. In this episode Rock and his wife Connie retell the experience of his disciplinary council.

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0:00.0	Let's get that out of the way.
0:02.2	Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:05.4	I'm your host John DeLin.
0:07.2	And the date is June 4th, 2015, Thursday.
0:13.7	It's the day after Rock Waterman's X Communications.
0:19.3	So we're here to bring Rock back and to talk about the events of June 3rd.
0:25.8	And with Rock is his wife Connie.
0:29.5	And they have a configuration such that they're speaking through a headset.
0:35.4	So whoever wears the headset is going to be talking.
0:38.1	So Rock's going to be talking for most of the interview.
0:40.6	But there'll be points, at least one point, if not a couple,
0:43.6	where he's going to pass the headset to Connie.
0:45.5	So those of you who are watching on YouTube,
0:47.1	visually you'll see Rock and Connie.
0:50.1	And they'll take turns talking, is it makes sense.
0:53.7	But Rock and Connie, welcome to Mormon Stories Podcast.
0:58.1	Thank you, John.
0:59.2	I'd be back, as always.
1:01.1	All right, so let's just start from the beginning.
1:03.9	Take us to what happened yesterday.
1:06.1	Well, it was interesting because I got a letter from the State President
1:11.2	a couple days after I got the summons.
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