903: Mormon Stories Live! Q&A with Tara Westover - Author of "Educated"

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 109 minutes

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We were honored to host a live Q&A and book signing with New York Times bestselling-author Tara Westover on March 29, 2018 at the First Unitarian Churchin Salt Lake City.

Tara is the author of the book Educated. Born in Idaho to a father opposed to public education, she never attended school. She spent her days working in her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother, a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. After that first encounter with education, she pursued learning for a decade, graduating magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in 2008 and subsequently winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014.

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0:00.0	We like to throw rocks at the people who don't see the world in the way we do.
0:09.0	I don't know why.
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0:39.0	Thanks for your support.
0:57.0	Well, hello everyone and welcome to this wonderful evening with Tara Westover.
1:01.0	Again, this is Warmest Stories podcast. I'm your host John Dillin.
1:04.0	We're so happy to have you here for the viewing audience.
1:08.0	We are here to celebrate this wonderful book, Educated and Memoir by Tara Westover.
1:13.0	This is sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Church.
1:17.0	First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City and also by King's English Book Store.
1:21.0	And we're so happy to have you here.
1:24.0	So, Tara Westover, welcome back to Warmest Stories podcast.
1:27.0	Thanks.
1:28.0	How's Salt Lake been treating you today?
1:30.0	Pretty good so far. It's nice to see mountains again.
1:33.0	Yeah, you've been away for a while.
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