757: Losing the Lamanites - Sarah Newcomb (NW Coastal Tribes - Tsimshian)
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Continuing our series on “Losing the Lamanites,” we interview Sarah Newcomb who descends from the Tsimshian of the NW Coastal Tribes. In this interview we cover:
*How Sarah struggled as a youth knowing that she came from the ‘Lamanites,’ who had turned their backs on God.
*How she worked her way through college in Rexburg, ID, acquired a degree in Communications/Journalism, and how her new knowledge around sourcing served as an impetus to her questioning her faith.
*How her husband ignored the Mormon admonition against interracial marriage, out of love for Sarah.
*Her avoidance of dancing (and other native customs), as they were practiced by the ’Lamanites’ in the Book of Mormon.
*Her avoidance of the sun, as a way to ensure that her skin would stay as light as possible.
*How she used her knowledge of sourcing (seeking original documentation) to discover many of the problems with LDS church history and doctrine, all before discovering the CES Letter.
*How Mormon Stories Podcast validated her feelings, and provided strength and a sense of community during her faith transition.
*How she now embraces her life in the sun, and is on a journey to connect to the heritage and identity she felt forced to distance herself from while a member of the LDS Church.
We thank Sarah for sharing her powerful, beautiful story and know that it will touch lives!
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| 0:50.3 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:54.3 | John DeLin. It is June 12th, 2017 and as always I'm very excited to be bringing |
| 1:02.7 | you another episode of Mormon Stories. Today's episode is broadcasted live on |
| 1:09.0 | Facebook live and we are going to be continuing our series on losing the |
| 1:17.1 | Lamanites. So for those of you who have been following, we've interviewed two |
| 1:21.8 | quote Lamanites so far. The first was Vanya Moore who was raised in Brazil and |
| 1:29.5 | then the second episode was Hiram Joe who was Navajo is Navajo and was |
| 1:37.7 | primarily I believe in New Mexico, my memories, serving me correctly. And we've |
| 1:44.0 | received a lot of good feedback about those episodes and a lot of people have |
| 1:48.5 | been very interested, a lot of people have connected with what we've been trying |
| 1:53.2 | to do and we've had a few more people volunteer to be interviewed to tell their |
| 1:58.6 | story. And so today we're going to be interviewing Sarah Nukum before we bring |
| 2:04.9 | Sarah on though. We just want to thank everyone who's joining us live on Facebook |
| 2:10.0 | live. We really appreciate when people are able to make comments or ask questions |
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