549: Kristy Money and the High Price of Mormon Activism Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2015
⏱️ 67 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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| 0:51.3 | Hello and welcome back to my very very interesting interview with Christy |
| 0:56.2 | Money. If you were able to join us for part one, Christy talked about growing |
| 1:02.6 | up in a family of seven children with the father, Harvard MBA, PhD, you know |
| 1:08.9 | business professor, you know, very you know conservative Mormon upbringing, but a |
| 1:16.9 | little bit of rebelliousness starting in age 12 but also a strong faith and |
| 1:21.8 | commitment to the church. She you know went to BYU, graduated in two years with |
| 1:28.8 | the double major, then went on to get a PhD in counseling psychology at BYU, had |
| 1:34.6 | a ton of really cool experiences, being a therapist to BYU students, |
| 1:40.5 | married Ralph, and started to have some Mormon intellectual awakenings through |
| 1:46.9 | reading Richard Bushman's Rufstown Rolling and contemplating polygamy and |
| 1:51.0 | women's issues and it's just a really fascinating hour so I hope you'll all go |
| 1:56.1 | back and listen, but as we concluded that first hour we got to around 2011, |
| 2:02.9 | which is really only four years ago if you can believe that Christy. But now |
| 2:09.5 | it's time to talk about what led you to your first sort of actions as a |
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