574: Losing Mormon Millennials Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2015
⏱️ 101 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
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.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Mormon Stories is a production of the Open Stories Foundation and relies solely upon the |
| 0:06.8 | support of people like you, its listeners. |
| 0:09.6 | To help keep the podcast alive or to become a member of the community, please become a |
| 0:13.5 | monthly subscriber by visiting MormonStories.org and clicking on the Donate button on the |
| 0:19.2 | right side of the page under Support. |
| 0:21.4 | All contributions to Mormon Stories are completely tax deductible and go towards producing |
| 0:25.8 | the podcast and building communities and programs of support for Mormons like you. |
| 0:30.8 | Thanks for your support. |
| 0:37.8 | And so, oh no, all right, so we're back with Tanner Gilliland and Samantha Snyder exploring |
| 0:46.8 | Mormon Millennials on Mormon Stories podcast on episode one. |
| 0:53.8 | We heard from Samantha and Tanner, Tanner talked about growing up in Tucson, is that right? |
| 0:59.8 | Flagstaff. |
| 1:00.8 | Flagstaff, it's all the same to me. |
| 1:02.8 | Very different, totally different. |
| 1:03.8 | Growing up in Flagstaff with a second of eight children, Uber, Mormon upbringing, super devout, |
| 1:12.8 | served in Michigan and Brazil. |
| 1:14.8 | We talked about Samantha also growing up in England and suffix, suffix, what is it? |
| 1:21.8 | What is it? |
| 1:22.8 | Essex. |
| 1:23.8 | Converting to the church around 1617 and both of them ending up in Be Will You I To Ho where they met but then Tanner experienced a couple of years |
| 1:36.8 | of a pretty severe faith crisis. |
| 1:39.8 | And so Tanner, why don't you pick up from where you left off and tell us how Samantha got dragged down into your evilness? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. John Dehlin, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. John Dehlin and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.