925: Roger Hendrix Pt. 2 - How a Mormon Mission President Lost His Testimony Pt. 7
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 76 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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| 0:59.1 | This is part seven. I believe we're in the ninth hour so of our interview. We may break a record |
| 1:19.2 | here but I'm not anywhere tired or ready to end. We're right smack dab in the middle of Rodgers |
| 1:27.1 | Faith Journey. We spoke about that in the previous episode six and now we're going to talk about it more. |
| 1:35.2 | So Rodger, last we left off, the church's involvement in Proposition 8 and then your daughter is |
| 1:43.1 | coming to and asking you about polygamy. Let's just say around 2015ish 2016 something like that. We're |
| 1:53.0 | really important moments for you as you started to engage and I think what you referred to is this |
| 2:00.0 | Hageleon dialectic where you're trying to engage in a more deep and sophisticated and informed |
| 2:07.1 | conversation internally in your own brain about how you reconciled Mormonism and church history |
| 2:14.5 | and the church's civil rights record etc. So maybe let's talk a bit about where you went from there |
| 2:23.7 | as you're listening to Mormon Stories podcast as you're reading Refstone Rolling by Richard Bushman. |
| 2:30.7 | Talk to us about your evolution on your opinions about Joseph Smith and then maybe Brigham Young. |
| 2:36.7 | Yeah. My opinions about Joseph Smith that's been a long journey and my conclusion is that without |
| 2:48.7 | a doubt the greatest religious leader in American history and probably one of the two or three |
| 3:00.0 | greatest religious leaders in world history and my feeling is that there is no great religion |
| 3:14.0 | without a great story and Joseph Smith's story, his narrative, the myth, the story that he told |
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