689: LDS Church Growth or Decline in 2016? Featuring Dr. Ryan Cragun and Dr. Rick Phillips Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Is the LDS Church in decline, or one of the fastest growing churches in the world? Please join us today at Noon (Mountain) as sociologists Ryan Cragun and Rick Phillips review LDS Church growth statistics for 2016.

We will be reviewing Matt Martinich’s recent article entitled “Top 10 Encouraging and Discouraging LDS Growth and Missionary Developments in 2016.” (link below).

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0:58.0	It is January 16th, high noon. I am up and there we have Ryan joining us. That's awesome.
1:07.0	My name is John D'Alinn. I'm super excited today for our discussion.
1:14.0	Basically we are going to be analyzing 2016 LDS Church membership statistics with sociologists Ryan Craig and Rick Phillips.
1:26.0	We are streaming this discussion live. I have Rick on and Ryan you are there but you are muted. I don't know if you are able to unmute.
1:40.0	I am going to start with Rick.
1:41.0	I am going to start with Ryan's technical difficulties.
1:46.0	What we will do is we will give Ryan a chance to get this set up and we will start with Rick.
1:52.0	Before we do I want to make a few announcements. First of all I just showered so my hair is a little bit messed up.
2:03.0	Thanks Rick.
2:04.0	Appreciate that vote of confidence.
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