650: One Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Mormon Transition Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this epic, three-part interview with Paul, Lisa, and Kyle, we learn about one ordinary Mormon family’s extraordinary Mormon transition. Topics covered in this episode include:

Living as an orthodox Mormon family in rural Utah.
Dealing with a crisis of faith in a large, orthodox Mormon family.
Living in a mixed-faith marriage.
How to ineffectively and effectively communicate with believing family members (siblings, extended family).
Dealing with a missionary in the field while the family is having a crisis of faith.
Supporting a gay child.
Leaving the church after decades of service, and in mid-life.
As a parent, sitting outside your own child’s wedding.
Finding communities of support (and joy) after leaving the church.

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0:00.0	Thanks for joining us today on Mormie Stories.
0:08.4	If you enjoyed this episode, please help us make more like it by becoming a monthly subscriber
0:12.8	at morminstories.org.
0:15.3	Music for this episode was provided by The Lower Lights.
0:17.9	And other sources cease to make me whole.
0:28.5	When with the wounded heart, anger or mouths, I draw myself apart, searching.
0:46.3	Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormie Stories podcast.
0:49.0	I'm your host John DeLin.
0:50.2	It is September 7th, 2016.
0:53.2	And today we are very, very excited to have with us a very special and ordinary family.
0:59.4	They have driven five hours away from Logan.
1:02.3	They left at 5 a.m. in the morning to be able to tell us their epic story.
1:06.4	This is absolutely an epic story.
1:09.5	And let me just introduce the family a little bit.
1:12.4	I'll go ahead and welcome Paul and Lisa and Kyle.
1:18.5	Thanks for joining us today on Mormie Stories.
1:20.8	Good to be here John.
1:23.2	As far as letting our listeners know why we're doing this interview, this interview touches
1:28.7	on almost every facet of the 21st century mormin experience.
1:34.7	So it starts out as a very orthodox family with pioneer ancestry from there.
1:41.6	Some of the children start to question in the family and eventually one of the parents
1:45.4	starts to question.
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