651: One Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Mormon Transition Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2016
⏱️ 77 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. |
| 0:18.2 | And other sources cease to make me whole. |
| 0:28.5 | When with a wounded heart, anger or mouths, I draw myself apart, searching myself. |
| 0:47.1 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Mormie Stories podcast. |
| 0:51.4 | It's still September 7th, I'm told. |
| 0:53.9 | And we're in part two of our interview with an ordinary family's extraordinary journey |
| 1:01.0 | regarding a mormin transition. |
| 1:04.3 | And we're here today again with Lisa and Paul and Kyle, three other children on present. |
| 1:12.6 | We just in part one went through an epic journey learning about Paul and Lisa growing up in |
| 1:19.6 | a small rural Utah town about their marriage, about their experiences in the temple. |
| 1:28.8 | And in their early married years, we learned about how Paul just never quite totally felt |
| 1:34.8 | comfortable in all the aspects of the church, even though he had a very orthodox upbringing |
| 1:40.5 | and how slowly that came to wear on his marriage with Lisa over time through 29 years of marriage. |
| 1:48.9 | We also learned about how older son, who we're not naming names for the people who aren't |
| 1:54.2 | present, we're not using last names just to sort of to try and minimize any harm that |
| 1:59.8 | could come from this podcast. |
| 2:02.3 | But we learned about how older son left the faith and how that was dealt with. |
| 2:08.4 | And then we learned about how Paul and Lisa both tried to deal with differences in faith |
| 2:16.3 | up until the point where Paul's faith, his shelf collapsed in 2014 when he stumbled upon |
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