732: Scott Duke and his meeting with Elder Christoffel Golden Jr.
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2017
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
As part of our series on meetings with Mormon General Authorities, we interview Scott Duke. Scott met with Elder Christoffel Golden of the Seventy November 15, 2012.
In this episode, Scott recounts:
-His LDS mission experience and the troubling historical issues he put on his “shelf”
-His confusion about the role of personal revelation within the framework of the Mormon Church
-How he “came out” about his faith crisis to his wife and family
-How he landed an opportunity to meet with a General Authority of the Church as a last effort to restore faith
-The events and impressions of the meeting with Elder Golden
-The letter he wrote to Dieter F. Uchtdorf and the subsequent response
-The emotional fallout and impact on his family that resulted from his non-belief
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| 0:55.0 | April 27th, 2017. Today we are continuing our series on people's meetings with |
| 1:02.4 | Mormon General Authorities. We've had several. We've had Jake and Meg Abhav |
| 1:07.3 | talk about their meeting with Elder Deton Christofferson about their |
| 1:11.6 | gay son. We had Lance, the Miles family talk about their meeting with |
| 1:19.4 | Marlon Jensen. We are now going to be interviewing Scott Duke who is known |
| 1:25.2 | amongst the Utah Valley Post-Marmor community but also on Facebook and is a |
| 1:30.9 | great guy. He comes to me highly recommended by Steve Holbrook who's one of my |
| 1:34.9 | favorite people in the world. But Scott Duke has a really interesting and |
| 1:39.8 | important story to tell about a meeting with with the General Thority named |
| 1:46.0 | Elder Christoffel Golden Jr. And so that's going to be the focus of today's |
| 1:51.2 | episode. Before we totally dive in I just need to make a few announcements. As |
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