926: Roger Hendrix Pt. 2 - How a Mormon Mission President Lost His Testimony Pt. 8
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 98 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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| 0:59.1 | Hello everyone and welcome back to our record breaking interview with Dr. Roger Hendrix. I'm John |
| 1:20.4 | Delin. This is Mormon Stories Podcast. It is May 16th 2018. We're in our 10th hour now of an |
| 1:27.9 | interview with Roger Hendrix and I've been loving every minute of it and I think it's been worth |
| 1:33.7 | every single minute. Roger is delighted and surprised and sometimes you know maddened me and others. |
| 1:42.8 | All in good ways, all in the spirit of the Higaly and Dialectic that we've talked about now for |
| 1:48.3 | a couple hours. But I'm loving this and I'd have at least an hour's worth more of questions for Roger |
| 1:56.4 | again served as a mission president and state presidency and served on the board of |
| 2:04.8 | Desirett Trust Company for 18 years and has insight that many of us just do not or will not ever |
| 2:13.9 | have into how things are thought about and done inside the church and so we're picking his brain |
| 2:20.4 | and I've got a lot of questions and I'm sharing questions from you. So here we go. You're ready |
| 2:26.0 | Roger. You buckled in for the last hour? I can hardly wait. All right. One of the first questions I |
| 2:36.7 | received after sharing your first seven hours of interviews is people want to know when number one, |
| 2:44.0 | if you've received the second anointing and that's a really sensitive issue, you may not even |
| 2:48.0 | want to talk about it. But I thought I'd ask the question. We've had Tom Phillips on in Mormon |
| 2:52.8 | stories. If you have a listen to that episode, it's a top three episode of all time in terms of |
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