924: Roger Hendrix Pt. 2 - How a Mormon Mission President Lost His Testimony Pt. 6
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of Mormon Stories, we continue our conversation with Roger Hendrix– possibly the highest ranking and most well-connected LDS church leader interviewed on Mormon Stories Podcast to date. In these final 3 episodes,
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- Part 6: Roger describes how the LDS Church's involvement in Proposition 8 in California, and his daughters' questions surrounding polygamy, led him to have a more deep and informed conversation internally as he tried to reconcile Mormonism and church history
- Part 7: Roger describes his evolution on opinions of church history, and how new sources of information including Richard Bushman's Rough Stone Rolling and Mormon Stories Podcast contributed to his faith evolution
- Part 8: Roger answers questions submitted by our listeners, including questions regarding whether he has received the 2nd Anointing. Roger also tells us why he decided now to share his Mormon Story on the podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Well I won't set on mother too. She said the things like mothers do. But mothers can be wrong sometimes. |
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| 0:59.6 | You're just in love. You're just in love. You're just in love. Love, love, love. |
| 1:07.9 | You're in love. |
| 1:14.3 | It is May 16th, 2018 and we are just so incredibly happy to be continuing our epic interview with Roger Hendrix. |
| 1:25.6 | Last week, recording from the Alta Club in downtown Salt Lake City. I can hear some sirens right now. |
| 1:34.8 | We're in the city of Cady Corner to church headquarters. We're interviewing Roger Hendrix from the Alta Club. |
| 1:41.0 | We did seven hours in one sitting with Roger and he talked about so many cool things. He talked about |
| 1:50.3 | growing up in Southern California with parents, you know, a mom who is not super active in the church and |
| 1:58.0 | and a stepdad. He talked about contracting polio, how he, his adolescence and adulthood were in |
| 2:06.8 | many ways shaped by that experience. He talked about what it was like growing up in the church in the |
| 2:12.3 | late 50s and early 60s and how that culminated in him being inspired by attending an institute class |
| 2:21.6 | in LDS Institute class and ended up serving a mission under a former LDS apostle Richard G. Scott |
| 2:28.7 | in Latin America and how that sprung boarded him into a career with the church education system CES, |
| 2:37.2 | how he rose in the ranks of CES to become Institute Director at University of Southern California. |
| 2:44.0 | And along the way, how he met several general authorities who would become apostles including |
| 2:52.3 | or who were just notable general authorities like Paul H. Dunn, you know, Boinkay Packer, Jeffrey Arholland, |
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