652: One Ordinary Family's Extraordinary Mormon Transition Pt. 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 September 2016

⏱️ 52 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.
0:28.4	When with the wounded heart, anger or mouths, I draw myself apart, searching my life.
0:46.5	Well, we're back for part three of our epic ordinary mormin families, extraordinary mormin
0:56.2	transition.
0:57.2	We're here with Lisa Paul and Kyle.
1:01.6	This is part three of this epic journey.
1:04.2	We've been through Paul's faith crisis, the Lisa coming aboard.
1:10.6	We've talked about how they didn't tell their daughter quite in the way they wished and
1:15.6	how that caused a lot of pain.
1:17.7	We've talked about Kyle coming out as gay and how difficult it was for him to deal with
1:23.1	his parents struggling in their transition.
1:26.0	We've also talked about the return missionary coming home and how they had a bit of a better
1:30.6	conversation there.
1:33.7	So we're coming into late mid-to-late 2015 in the story.
1:43.1	And Paul, I think you have a story for us to kick off this episode.
1:46.6	Well, after we had settled things with Kyle, we had already planned to go and visit a
1:52.4	far foreign exchange student in Germany because she was getting married.
1:55.7	And it was a beautiful wedding ceremony.
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