758: Staying Active in the Mormon Church as a semi- or non-believer
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mormon Stories and Mormon Transitions, John and Margi reflect back on their 13 years of experience as semi- and non-believers and provide their advice on how to successfully navigate activity in the LDS Church. Some of the topics discussed are:
*Advice on how to determine whether church attendance is a healthy option for you and your family
*Living the “Law of Tithing” in a way that is meaningful to you
*Focusing on teaching lessons about truths that resonate with you, and less on the topics that trouble you as they most likely will be covered many other times
*How to respond to inquiries about your activity status from fellow ward members
*Setting boundaries and expectations when given a calling
*Protecting your children by having an open discussion after church that allows them to safely process and talk through the information
*Building social credit in your ward to spend thoughtfully when the time arrives
*Advice on how to ethically navigate the temple recommend interview
*Answering the question “can you be honest and ethical in staying?”
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| 0:36.0 | Be kindly light amid the encircling glue. Leave now me on the night is dark. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:53.6 | Delin. We can almost call this Mormon Stories sliced Mormon Transitions podcast |
| 0:57.8 | because what we've done is we've taken these sort of more practical themes |
| 1:03.2 | that we are releasing as Mormon Transitions episodes and we're folding them |
| 1:07.8 | into the Mormon Stories podcast as well because people liked them so much that |
| 1:13.0 | we wanted to make sure the most people as possible could could check them out. |
| 1:17.8 | And so here we are. It's June 15th, 2017. My name is John Delin. I'm Margie Delin. |
| 1:26.4 | And we're really excited to have you guys with us today. And this is our first |
| 1:30.6 | time in from our new house. Having Mormon Transitions. That's right. We're broadcasting |
| 1:37.4 | from our new home in Holiday Utah and we love being here and we've loved the |
| 1:44.6 | friendships that we've been able to get get reacquainted with and the donors |
| 1:49.8 | and the listeners that we've been able to have meetings with me a little bit |
| 1:53.7 | more than you, right? Snitch it. Snitch it more. But we love being here. We're in |
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