766: Staying Actively Engaged in Mormonism - The "A Thoughtful Faith" Panel Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2017
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In these episodes of Mormon Stories, John and Margi interview 3 of the hard-working moderators of the “A Thoughtful Faith” Facebook group. The group comprises LDS members who are working to stay engaged in constructive ways within Mormonism and offers a safe space to ask faith-challenging questions.
Mark Crego, Jeralee Renshaw, and Dan Wotherspoon answer questions about the purpose of the group, but also embark on a very interesting conversation about how they each are able to remain happily involved in the Church despite being aware of the faith-challenging aspects of the Mormon faith.
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| 0:49.1 | What would you guys say if someone was critical of the church in saying, |
| 0:54.1 | a thoughtful faith shouldn't be needed. The church should be looking after its |
| 0:58.8 | own and so and maybe a less adversarial way to ask this question is just why |
| 1:04.3 | why is ATF needed and if you have thoughts on why the church isn't able to |
| 1:09.6 | provide that service be interested. Jiggly or unmuted, why don't you start and |
| 1:14.5 | then we'll go from there. So my thought is it's needed because and I mentioned |
| 1:17.9 | this earlier when I talked about my son because we generally it's the rare |
| 1:22.1 | ward where you can show up and raise your hand and talk about the difficulties |
| 1:28.3 | right because it's not in the correlated material. So I think it's needed. Maybe |
| 1:36.0 | someday the church will advance there is some effort of transparency with the |
| 1:42.1 | essays and things. Maybe we will get to a point where we can have open |
| 1:45.6 | discussions. I know of a ward that I was in a couple years ago where some friends |
| 1:51.5 | who were teaching gospel doctrine taught a lesson on the essays. They showed |
| 1:56.1 | the little video clip from Elder Snow and the reasons why the church was |
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