746: Losing the Lamanites - Vania Moore (Brazil) Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This episode begins our series on “Losing the Lamanites” where we interview people from Central and South America, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders with the intent of exploring their faith transitions—especially their thoughts and feelings on the identity of “Lamanite” being given to them.
Vania Moore was raised in the LDS Church and has recently experienced a faith transition. In this episode, we explore:
*Vania’s upbringing in the LDS Church and her desire to serve an LDS mission
*Her thoughts about the label of “Lamanite” and how she never felt it applied to her, and why
*The cultural differences of the LDS Church she noticed having been raised in Brazil and then immigrating to Utah
*Her marriage and subsequent divorce
*Immigrating to America in search of a new life for herself and her children
*How her struggle with anxiety and depression immediately subsided after she decided to leave the LDS Church
*Her remarriage to a true-believing member of the LDS Church and how they make their mixed-faith marriage work
*Vania’s YouTube channel where she explores different truth claims of the church
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| 0:49.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm |
| 0:53.4 | your host John D'Alin. It is May 8th, 2017 and I'm really excited to be kicking off |
| 1:03.3 | a little series that we're going to be doing on Mormon Stories. We've done a few |
| 1:08.1 | series recently. One of the first series that we've done in the past sort of |
| 1:13.4 | year is a series that we did on early return missionaries. Lately recently we |
| 1:20.5 | followed that up with the series on various people's meetings with Mormon |
| 1:26.1 | general authorities. Last week and the week before we did a series on the transgender |
| 1:31.2 | experience with Mormonism, which I think was fabulous. Now I want to do a series |
| 1:36.9 | called Losing the Lamanites. This series is about interviewing people from Latin |
| 1:43.6 | America, from Mexico, from Native Americans here in the United States and maybe |
| 1:49.1 | even Pacific Islanders. The whole point is to talk about joining the church in |
| 1:55.2 | Latin America, having a faith crisis as someone who's Latin American or Native |
| 2:01.8 | American or Polynesian, etc. Also in some of the interviews we're really going to |
| 2:06.5 | be digging into this idea of identity. To the extent that Latin Americans or |
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