685: Margi Dehlin's Mormon Transition Pt. 2 - Margi's Transition Away from Mormonism

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2016

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

As the first interview for the new Mormon Transitions project, I am incredibly pleased to interview my dear wife of 23 years, Margaret (Margi) Weber Dehlin. In this three-part interview, I ask Margi a series of 46 questions focusing on thee parts:

Part 1: Margi's life as a believing Mormon. This includes questions about how her family joined the LDS church in Washington D.C. during the 1970s, reflections on her own "conversion" to the church, Margi's favorite parts about being a believing, active Mormon, and the most challenging parts as well.
Part 2: Margi's faith crisis and transition away from Mormon orthodoxy, including our time trying to remain LDS as semi-believers, and her experiences and reflections on my excommunication. Topics include the impetus for Margi's faith transition, how she/we "came out" to our children parents, extended family, etc. as unorthodox Mormons, and what the most difficult and rewarding parts of the transition were.
Part 3: Margi's life and perspective now, as a post-Mormon, including reflections on her current beliefs and non-beliefs, her approach to nurturing a healthy/happy family without religion, how she approaches raising children without the church, and why she feels as though she and our family are happier and healthier than ever before after leaving the church.

The plan for Mormon Transitions podcast is as follows:

We plan to conduct somewhere between 20 and 30 of these interviews, and to share them at http://mormontransitions.org. We also plan to "chop" these interviews up by question, so that people can peruse the interview by topic (e.g., raising children after a faith crisis, how to "come out" to family and friends, secular spirituality, dealing with death).
We plan to host a weekly call-in show where people can call with their questions/concerns and receive feedback from a mental health professional and/or expert.
We plan to compile all the advice and perspective over 2017 into a book entitled something to the effect of, "Navigating a Mormon Transition."
We plan to continue hosting Mormon Transition Events across the U.S. See our Mormon Transitions event calendar for events as they are scheduled.

If you support Mormon Stories, Mormon Transitions, Mormon Matters, A Thoughtful Faith, or any of the Open Stories Foundation projects, please consider a donation today. You can donate via any of the "donate" buttons on any of the pages.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is John Dillin with the very abbreviated version of three important announcements.
0:05.0	One is we've got about 650 people who have donated to Mormon stories, but we really need your support.
0:13.0	So if you have enjoyed Mormon stories over the past year, but have not contributed financially, please go to MormonStories.org and donate today.
0:21.0	That would mean the world to us and allows to keep the Open Stories Foundation going.
0:25.0	Your donations are tax deductible. The second is this exciting interview with Margie is the first of several interviews.
0:31.0	We'll be doing for the Mormon Transitions Project, asking a series of about 50 questions about how people navigate a faith transition.
0:39.0	Look for more interviews at MormonTransitions.org. Based on your support, you will also find these interviews on YouTube.
0:47.0	We hope you enjoy them. Please know that we will also be doing a weekly call-in show at MormonTransitions.org.
0:54.0	Where we have experts like Natasha Elfroparker, Noah Rasheda, Margie Dillin, and others.
0:59.0	Support people's call-in questions regarding their Mormon transition. So please check us out there.
1:07.0	Also know that we will be interviewing experts at MormonTransitions.org about faith transition specifically, with the idea at the end of 2017 of putting together a full book.
1:17.0	Sort of a manual for how to navigate a Mormon transition.
1:21.0	In addition, we plan to continue having workshops and retreats for Mormon Transitions to support people in their transition.
1:28.0	These deal with healthy marriages, healthy sexuality, healthy spirituality in a secular way, raising healthy children, etc.
1:36.0	You can go to MormonTransitions.org slash events to see what events we have scheduled and if you want to request an event, you can do so at MormonTransitions.gmail.com.
1:46.0	So please check out our events and support them. And then finally, please know that the Open Stories Foundation survives through your support.
1:56.0	So please support Dan Witherspoon at MormonMatters.org, Gina Colvin at a thoughtfulfate.org. Please continue to support Mormon Stories.org.
2:05.0	If only 100 of you decided to do a $10 or $20 a month donation, recurring, that could literally transform what we do at the Open Stories Foundation.
2:16.0	We have a lot of headcount now. We have all sorts of expenses regarding technology, equipment, internet, staff, salaries, etc.
2:29.0	And we can't do this without your support. So please support us. And of course, if you want to support the New Mormon Transitions Project, please check us out there as well.
2:38.0	Now on to the next part of my interview with Margie Dillin. Thanks for tuning in.
2:59.0	I am far from home.
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