865: Mormon Stories Live! with Tova Mirvis Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We are proud to release our live interview held on February 6, 2018 at the Salt Lake City Community of Christ with Tova Mirvis—a past guest on Mormon Stories. For this interview, we relied on the excellent questions from our live audience to drive the conversation. We explore so many of the parallels between the faith transition experiences in Orthodox Judaism and Mormonism, and talk some more about her writing The Book of Separation and how it has touched many of our listeners since tuning into her Mormon Stories episode.
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| 0:31.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. As you know, I'm your host, John DeLin. It's February 6, 2018. |
| 0:54.0 | We are very excited to be recording this episode from the Community of Christ Chapel in holiday, Utah. |
| 1:04.0 | We're very grateful to Community of Christ for hosting us. This is the second week in a row where they've hosted us for a live event. |
| 1:11.0 | Last week we had the wonderful Carolyn Pearson here talking about her wonderful book, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy. |
| 1:18.0 | Hope you enjoyed that episode. If you haven't listened to it, check it out. That's a super powerful book. |
| 1:23.0 | I am so sick of reading Mormon books, but I loved her book. |
| 1:28.0 | I made an exception to Reddit and I was really floored by how amazing it was. |
| 1:32.0 | Check that book out. |
| 1:34.0 | Today we are not here to talk about Carolyn Pearson. We are here to celebrate the beginning of what I hope is a series on Mormon Stories Podcast. |
| 1:44.0 | As many of you know, a little while back we were so honored to have the great Tova Mervis. |
| 1:54.0 | I'm told it's Mervis. It rhymes with nervous. |
| 1:59.0 | Not Mervis. |
| 2:02.0 | The Tova Mervis is joining us for those of you who don't know, she is the author of this wonderful book, The Book of Separation. |
| 2:11.0 | A memoir she was raised Orthodox Jewish and that is an intense upbringing. |
| 2:22.0 | We have this only lower than Scientologist level of intensity of a LDS upbringing and the trauma that can come from that experience. |
| 2:36.0 | But what we are so thrilled and some alleviated to learn is that sometimes people sometimes have a worst than we do. |
| 2:45.0 | I'm not sure if I can make ourselves feel better. |
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