700: How the LDS Quorum of Twelve Apostles Think - Enemies List and "Area Business Weekends"

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, an all-star panel reviews a recently leaked presentation created by the quorum of the twelve apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The presentation is entitled "Area Business Weekends," is dated December 8, 2015, and lays out the process for local LDS stakes and areas to request special training meetings from the LDS quorum of the 12 (e.g., Boise Rescue, Elder Ballard's Young Single Adult stake in Utah County).

Within the presentation the LDS Q12 reveals its view on the external causes for people leaving the LDS church, which explicitly name individuals such as John Dehlin, Denver Snuffer, and Robert Norman, along with other broader trends, movements, and ideas such as secularism, Ordain Women, support for same-sex marriage (entitled "Disagree with current policies"), chastity, pornography, lack of commitment, failure to observe the sabbath, those fascinated with the "last days/end of world" (i.e., Preppers/Julie Rowe), "false prophets," and anyone who feels they need "something more" from the church.

In no instance does the Quorum of the 12 demonstrate introspection as to what they or the church might be doing to contribute to disaffection from the Mormon church.

Today's panel includes Dr. Gina Colvin (A Thoughtful Faith Podcast and KiwiMormon), Lindsay Hansen Park (Sunstone), Pastor John Hamer (Toronto Community of Christ), Jesse Stay, and Ryan McKnight (Mormon Leaks).

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0:53.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John the Linn.
0:59.0	We're recording on February 27, 2017 but we won't be releasing this until 10 a.m. February 28, 2017.
1:09.0	The reason why we're recording before we release is because we're doing a special episode and the special episode is in semi partnership with the Mormon leaks people.
1:22.0	The reason why we're doing this interview is because we have learned about a new document that is going to be released tomorrow by Mormon leaks.
1:37.0	It's a super cool document. It's basically a presentation that has the title area business weekends.
1:48.0	It's a document that appears to come from the core of the 12 apostles of the Mormon Church.
1:54.0	The date is December 8, 2015.
1:58.0	The document talks, it seems like the document is talking about the special meetings that the church wants to be able to hold where apostles visit areas and sometimes stakes and they can discuss special issues.
2:13.0	We're going to be looking at that presentation and we're also going to be spending a lot of time on a particular slide.
2:21.0	The slide is this bubble chart that shows the enemies of the church. The title of the slide is Issues and Ideas leading people away from the gospel.
2:34.0	It actually names names. It has Denver Snuffer there. It has some character named Robert Norman who will be talking about names ordained women specifically and interestingly enough, yours truly has his own bubble.
2:51.0	John D'Alan is mentioned by name on the slide as an issue or an idea leading people away from the gospel.
3:00.0	We're going to be talking about that presentation and that slide today.
3:05.0	With us, we have an all-star illustrious panel of amazing humans.
3:12.0	The humans that we have, I'm going to go ahead and introduce them.
3:18.0	First, I'll just do a quick roll call. We have Ryan McKnight who is definitely associated with Mormon leaks and I'll let him introduce himself.
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