573: Losing Mormon Millennials Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we interview Tanner Gilliland and Samantha Snyder. Tanner was raised as an orthodox Mormon in Tucson, Arizona. Samantha converted to the LDS Church in the U.K. Both lived very orthodox LDS lives as millennials, attending BYU-Idaho as devout members, and interning for Deseret Book after graduating from BYU-I. Samantha co-founded the web site Millennial Mormons.

As Tanner and Samantha began to question the modern LDS Church, they briefly entertained the teachings of Denver Snuffer (Tanner was actually re-baptised according to Snuffer's teachings). Earlier this year, both Tanner and Samantha left the LDS Church, and recently co-founded the new post-Mormon millennial blog called ZelphOnTheShelf.com.

As recent reports suggest that the LDS Church is losing its Millennial members at a rapid pace (see here and here), this interview begins to explore why.

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0:32.8	Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast.
0:42.6	I'm your host John Dillin.
0:43.6	Today the date is August.
0:45.6	Help me out.
0:46.6	Second.
0:47.6	September 2nd.
0:48.6	September 2nd.
0:49.6	It's late.
0:50.6	We've been trying to learn how to set up video and audio equipment.
0:55.4	But I am here with Tanner Gillin.
0:59.4	The day I get it right.
1:01.4	And Samantha Snyder.
1:04.5	And we were super excited to do a special episode of Mormon Stories about millennial Mormons.
1:11.4	And so to begin, Samantha is from England.
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