701: Kim Sandberg Turner Pt. 1 - The believing years, including our time in Bolivia

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 March 2017

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Kim Sandberg Turner is the founder of Women of a Certain Age (WOCA) - a network of support groups for 40+ post-Mormon women. In this four part episode, Kim discusses:

Part 1: Her years growing up as a faithful Mormon in Salt Lake City, meeting and marrying Terry (her childhood sweetheart and husband of 42 years), and the many years her family lived in Bolivia as devout Mormons (Terry serving as a Mormon bishop twice, and Kim in multiple Relief Society Presidencies).
Part 2: How Kim and Terry's Mormon faith began to unravel as their son Josh came out to them as gay, and as they began studying LDS church history in depth.
Part 3: Kim discusses how she and Terry navigated their faith transition as parents and grandparents, exploring topics such as how they dealt with their Draper, Utah ward once they decided to leave the church, how they have handled parenting and grandparenting through a faith transition, what they do and don't believe today, and the importance of community in their transition.
Part 4: Kim shares the story of how she founded WOCA, how WOCA operates, and what WOCA means to her and to the other WOCA women.

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0:51.0	Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. As usual I'm your host John D'Lind, it's March 1st, 2017. We are in Draper, Utah and I'm super excited.
1:01.0	Super excited.
1:02.0	Super. There's that word.
1:04.0	There's that word.
1:05.0	So excited to be interviewing today Kim Sandberg Turner.
1:10.0	Kim and Terry Turner have been like a sort of like an additional family for my family and while that's true that's not why I'm interviewing them.
1:20.0	They have this fabulously interesting Mormon story. Super devout.
1:25.0	It's really just a nor nary story.
1:27.0	Okay, I don't mean that.
1:30.0	Speaking up too much.
1:31.0	They were certainly in at the minute as a couple.
1:35.0	Multiple kids Terry served as Bishop twice.
1:38.0	Kim served as relief site president at least a few times.
1:42.0	Very devout members of the church both in South America and in Utah.
1:47.0	And I would say they were probably on their way to sort of mission president, mission president's wife status or beyond when things kind of derailed a little bit while they're living in Draper.
2:01.0	So we're going to talk about the Turner family's Mormon transition and what happened and how you know what I think is most important about their story is the way that with grace and with style with class and with fun and with the sense of humor.
2:16.0	They have built an incredibly happy fulfilling rich wording life after a transition.
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