753: Derrick Clements - Ethically Navigating the Middle Way of Mormonism Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 95 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.
In part 2, Derrick shares his beliefs and reasons for remaining active in the LDS Church and the important role personal honesty and integrity play in that decision. As a general rule, Derrick avoids dogma and does not rely heavily on truth claims as the root of his faith.
Derrick and John answer the difficult questions such as:
- “Is it disingenuous to stay active in the LDS Church with knowledge of ‘problems’ of historicity and knowing the harm the church inflicts on groups of people, like LGBTQ individuals?”
- “Are the people who remain complicit in that harm?”
- “Should the teachings of the church be taken literally or metaphorically?”
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| 0:49.6 | Alright, so now I want to jump to maybe the second part of this interview, which |
| 0:54.9 | is how your own lived experience, you know, how you do it. And there's a great |
| 1:02.5 | article that you sent me that says what remains when disbelief has gone, |
| 1:06.6 | question mark, you also sent me several other articles. So I just want to |
| 1:10.3 | mention to Amy or to Cody, whoever's, you know, moderating to make sure |
| 1:18.3 | let's get from Derek the links to his articles because I think they're well |
| 1:22.6 | written and I think people are going to appreciate him. And I think the help |
| 1:26.1 | listeners supplement what they hear from Derek, you know, as they're trying to |
| 1:30.7 | figure out their own experience. But let's just start with the churches sort of |
| 1:36.0 | core beliefs. And, you know, I guess, I guess what I want to do is take you |
| 1:42.9 | through what your actual beliefs are. But in the article that you sent me, you |
| 1:49.0 | sort of started the article with a pretty interesting approach to the truth |
| 1:54.0 | claims. Do you want to characterize it or do you want me to try and characterize it |
| 1:56.9 | for you? Yeah, go ahead and I'll fill in if I, okay, so when I when I read the |
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