752: Derrick Clements - Ethically Navigating the Middle Way of Mormonism Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In these episodes of Mormon Stories, we interview Derrick Clements—a new contributor to “The Cheeky Mormon Movie Review” podcast series with Gina Colvin, avid podcaster, and reporter for Provo’s Daily Herald.
Derrick and John begin part 1 by discussing categories of people who remain active in the LDS Church, including those who are:
Unaware of church “problems”
Unable to leave without massive disruption in their lives
Unempathetic to those the church harms
Staying to improve the church
Genuinely spiritually converted
Motivated to stay for tribal / identity sentiments
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| 0:48.9 | Everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:52.6 | John DeLin. It is June 5th, 2017. We're very, very excited to have with us |
| 1:00.5 | someone that I've known for quite some time. His name is Derek Clements and |
| 1:04.2 | before we jump into our discussion with Derek on the topic of ethically |
| 1:10.0 | navigating the middle way of Mormonism, that's the title that we're giving it. |
| 1:14.3 | I'll just add a few announcements and then we'll dive right in. So as many of |
| 1:21.3 | you know, there are several events that we have planned and organized over several |
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| 1:30.8 | calendar. These are workshops and retreats mostly for people who are some |
| 1:36.0 | way navigating a faith or religious transition within a Mormon context. The |
| 1:41.2 | first that we have is July 7th to 8th in Dallas, Texas. We'll be doing a full |
| 1:45.2 | two-day retreat. We're really excited about that. We're planning a fireside one |
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