548: Kristy Money and the High Price of Mormon Activism Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2015
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Kristy Money is impressive on so many levels.
- She graduated from BYU at age 19, completing a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at age 25 (dissertation on LDS suicide)
- She serves on the Ordain Women board of directors as a co-founder of OW, assembled the famous "6 discussions" for Ordain Women, and is the host of Ordain Women podcast.
- She has authored three incredibly influential op-eds for the Salt Lake Tribune:
- She is the creator of the http://voicesoflove.org project (in support of same-sex love within Mormonism), which is a response to Ty Mansfield's Voice of Hope project (promoting either mixed-orientation marriages or celibacy).
- She is currently serving on the Mormon Mental Health Association Board of Directors.
- Her journey has been featured in the New York Times and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- She is currently facing church discipline for her efforts with Ordain Women, and for speaking openly in her congregation about matters of racial injustice.
In this 3-part interview we discuss her early years growing up in the church in South Carolina, her intellectual awakening at BYU, her experiences as a psychologist, and her various efforts of Mormon activism, culminating in her now being silenced by her bishop, and threatened with church discipline. She also discusses the incredibly high personal price she's paid for her work, which has led to almost complete isolation from her parents and siblings.
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| 0:49.0 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, John DeLin. |
| 0:56.0 | The date is July 1st, 2015 and I am super excited to have as a guest someone that I've been trying to arrange to come on the show for at least a year, maybe more. |
| 1:09.0 | Her name is Christy Money and Christy is really amazing. |
| 1:17.0 | You know, so there's a big old long list of all her amazing accomplishments. She graduated from BYU at age what 18 19 19 19. |
| 1:30.0 | She went on to pursue a PhD in counseling psychology at BYU and that's a it's a pretty solid program there. She graduated with her PhD in psychology at age what? |
| 1:44.0 | 25 which is crazy. I started my PhD at age 40. |
| 1:49.0 | But that's you know PhDs take 670 years sometimes so that's an amazing accomplishment. So she's a mental health professional. |
| 1:59.0 | Her dissertation was on you suicide prevention so we can talk about that. She did a postdoctoral fellowship in a community mental health center. |
| 2:09.0 | But that's not I believe it or not that's not why we're necessarily having her on the show. |
| 2:14.0 | Christy has been a board member of ordained women since how long? |
| 2:20.0 | Since last year. |
| 2:22.0 | Yeah so quite a long time. She's been supporting Kate Kelly and the ordained women sort of movement for so much of that time. |
| 2:31.0 | But but she's been involved in in several kind of what I think is really important projects. |
| 2:39.0 | You know on the Mormon Internet if you think about my interview with Micah Nicolias and you know he was able to mention three or four or five really important projects he's been involved in. |
| 2:49.0 | Christy is also very much been an activist on the Mormon Internet so. |
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