726: Noah Rasheta's Mormon Transition Pt. 4
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mormon Stories, we interview Noah Rasheta — the Executive Director of the Foundation for Mindful Living and host of the Secular Buddhism podcast. This meaningful and compelling interview covers:
- Noah’s early life as an orthodox Mormon believer and his struggle with the thought that with all of the good in the world, is it possible that the path set forth by the LDS Church is the only valid one?
- How he felt uneasy and shaken as he broadened his study of the Mormon faith
- His description of his transitioning process, his fears of leaving the LDS Church, and “coming out” as a non-believer to those in his faith community
- How as his transition progressed, his view towards people became more kind, warm, and compassionate
- His studies of Buddhist philosophy and the development of a purpose-driven life by integrating Buddhist teachings, modern science, humanism, and humor
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| 0:48.6 | So Noah, I know that you're still attending church right now, at least in part |
| 0:55.1 | because you're in a mixed faith marriage. And this question specifically about |
| 1:00.9 | community, but a question just occurred to me. If you're a wife, if let's just |
| 1:05.7 | say your wife to Zelle, just stop believing, your kids all stop believing, do you |
| 1:11.9 | think you would continue attending the LDS church? I don't think so. I don't |
| 1:17.4 | think it would be necessary at that point. I feel like with anything related to |
| 1:24.8 | belief, you know, if we suddenly believe we shouldn't eat meat, what I want my |
| 1:28.9 | family to continue eating meat. No, because I would adapt to whatever is that |
| 1:35.7 | new norm with how we are at that moment. So now I know you still have a sense of |
| 1:43.6 | community because you still attend the church, but my guess is maybe some of the |
| 1:50.7 | fulfilling aspects of having a community maybe or water down a bit because maybe |
| 1:58.5 | you view, maybe you believe quite differently and kind of view the world quite |
| 2:02.8 | differently than than the people who continue attending your church, where you |
| 2:09.1 | attend. And so my question is, what have you done to sort of replace the role |
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