750: Creating a Family Culture
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mormon Stories, Margi and John share and discuss their ideas in creating a family culture. Margi uses the metaphor of a “tower” with 5 building blocks to show their cumulative effect.
These building blocks are:
Values — the foundational layer
Embodiment — the living of those values
Ritual — the framework that integrates those values into your schedule
Tradition — opportunities to celebrate that cement values
Home Environment — the space and “vibe” that reflects values
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| 0:50.4 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast where |
| 0:54.5 | broadcasting to you live through Facebook live and we're also recording this |
| 0:58.7 | for podcasts and YouTube distribution later. The date is May 18th 2017. This is |
| 1:06.6 | episode O25 of our our series around Mormon transitions. We're releasing this |
| 1:12.9 | both on Mormon Stories podcast and on Mormon Transitions podcast because it |
| 1:17.3 | applies to both audiences but the topic is one that I'm really excited about. |
| 1:21.9 | It's something we've talked about doing for a while and it's mostly my brilliant |
| 1:26.5 | wife's brainchild. It's about creating a family culture. Let's just say |
| 1:33.1 | during and after a religious transition. You know so many parents worry that if |
| 1:40.5 | they no longer remain orthodox or even religious that somehow they'll not be |
| 1:46.8 | able to raise healthy happy kids or have a healthy happy family and to some |
| 1:51.0 | extent I think many high-demand religions really encourage that fear by |
| 1:55.3 | telling people you can't raise happy healthy kids outside the church and you |
| 2:01.3 | know no one's perfect but we feel like we know many many families who are |
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