699: Honoring Grant Palmer Pt. 3 - Honoring Grant Palmer
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this three-part interview, we honor Grant Palmer, former LDS seminary/institute instructor, and author of "An Insider's View of Mormon Origins" - which provides a plausible explanation for how the Book of Mormon was authored by Joseph Smith.
This interview has three parts:
Part 1: Grant reflects on his experience authoring An Insider's View of Mormon origins, discusses his disfellowshipment and ultimate decision to resign from the LDS (after threats of excommunication). Grant also reflects upon the impact of An Insider's View on the LDS church.
Part 2: Grant discusses his new, yet-to-be-published book, "Restoring Christ." Within the book he discusses why he continues to believe, how he justifies belief in Christ and the Bible after losing faith in the LDS church and in the Book of Mormon, what the atonement does and doesn't mean to him, how he deals with the God of the Old Testament, etc. He also discusses in-depth his conversation with an LDS general authority who claims that modern LDS apostles receive $1 million once they become apostles, and that many of them do not believe the LDS church to be true (a claim that I challenge).
Part 3: Participants in the evening share with Grant what his work has meant to them. In addition, Tyler Glenn (Neon Trees) sings two songs in honor of Grant from his new album, Excommunication.
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| 0:29.0 | Thanks for your support. |
| 0:31.0 | My dear friend, Tyler Glenn, who has been an incredible friend and support through the past several years. |
| 0:46.0 | His agreed to sing for us tonight. |
| 1:09.0 | We're going to invite Tyler up now and he's going to share a song with us before the little concluding remarks and then Tyler's going to finish with another song. |
| 1:23.0 | This is my dear friend, Tyler Glenn, lead singer of NeonTrees and super cool guy. |
| 1:32.0 | Tyler Glenn, everybody. |
| 1:36.0 | I wanted to play a song that I wrote during my big crisis last year and I want to appreciate and keep your hands full of others where your stories were there to catch me and I was following. |
| 1:55.0 | I've just been hearing you talk back there and it's just remarkable. |
| 2:02.0 | I'm honored to sing and I hope that I can play well for you. |
| 2:37.0 | I'm glad she hits on clumsy when I speak. |
| 2:44.0 | Car, you never call me anymore. |
| 2:51.0 | I've passed the point of self control, I'm giving back to you. |
| 2:55.0 | Things I thought were true and I don't see anything new. |
| 3:03.0 | God, let the hell are you hiding? |
| 3:07.0 | My hands are in the air and I'm excited. |
| 3:12.0 | I've been on the run so I'm not coming Sunday. |
| 3:17.0 | It's alright, I'll probably talk to you at midnight God. |
| 3:24.0 | I can never be like you. |
| 3:27.0 | I can't change, I can't change, I don't want to. |
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