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Mormon Stories Podcast

880: Brooke Bonham Miller and Josh Miller - Seeking Support from Spencer Fluhman and the Maxwell Institute in a Faith Crisis Pt. 4

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Mormon Stories Podcast is an interview with Brooke Bonham Miller and Josh Miller about the difficulties they faced during their Mormon faith crisis. They also share a wonderful and challenging experience they had speaking privately with Dr. Spencer Fluhman (Head of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship) about their questions and doubts.  This interview highlights Brooke and Josh’s background in the LDS Church, what doubts they encountered, why they decided share their doubts with Dr. Fluhman, and their reactions to the answers he provided.

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It's March 7th 2018. I'm John DeLin. I'm here with Brooke Bonham Miller and Josh Miller.

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We're here talking about their faith crisis, how it led to severe stress in their marriage,

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how it led to Brooke not wanting to live anymore,

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and how as a way of processing their crisis, they went to speak with Dr. Spencer Flumon of the Max Wan Institute

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and we've covered most of their time with Spencer.

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We've got a little bit more to cover and Brooke, we kind of cut you off.

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So we jump back to you and have you share what you were sharing,

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anything else you want to say to wrap up?

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So I was just saying, if this information that we're disclosing is detrimental to

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Spencer Flumon's career in any way, shape or form,

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they decide that they want to cut him off.

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I think that that is them. I mean, I was saying how only 0.001% of the world is LDS.

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