608: Jake and Hanna Ricks - The Disciplinary Council With No Disciplinary Action Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In December of 2015 Jake Ricks was informed that he would be facing an LDS disciplinary council for apostasy, based on a series of benign Facebook posts he made during the previous year. On January 3rd, 2016 the disciplinary council was held (with Jake and his wife, Hannah, in attendance), and the decision of “no action” was determined by his stake president. This is Jake and Hannah’s Story. (audio version to come)
Part 1: Jake and Hannah’s LDS background, and the events leading up to Jake’s disciplinary council for apostasy held on January 3rd, 2016.
Part 2: Jake and Hannah Discuss the Outcome of Jake’s January 3rd, 2016 LDS Disciplinary Council for apostasy.
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| 0:59.0 | This is going to be part two of a series that we have done with Jacob and Anna Ricks. |
| 1:09.0 | You'll know from our first interview that Jacob was summoned to a disciplinary council on January 3rd, 2016. |
| 1:20.0 | We did a full interview about his background about Anna's and about their thoughts around the disciplinary council. |
| 1:27.0 | Our plan was to have Jacob record that interview and to share the recording, I think our assumption was that Jacob would be disciplined in some way. |
| 1:41.0 | We all sat at the edge of our chairs on pins and needles on Sunday and lo and behold what we found out was that Jacob received a verdict of no decision or no action which meant that he was neither dispel a ship nor communicated. |
| 2:03.0 | We're here to have Jake and Anna back to talk about what happened. |
| 2:10.0 | Jacob, why don't you start and tell us how it began. |
| 2:15.0 | Sure. |
| 2:18.0 | Well, when we, if you listen to the previous episode, then you knew we had a pretty negative point of view as far as what was going to happen there. |
| 2:28.0 | We felt like this was going to be an abusive situation. |
| 2:38.0 | So when we got there, we met with the state president to start. |
| 2:43.0 | And he seemed very open and to listen to our point of view when we got there. |
| 2:52.0 | And so Hannah and I went in and I had a witness who was there and he waited outside. |
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