929: Shawn McCraney - Breaking the Bondage of Religion Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2018
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Continuing our theme of interviewing past guests from some of our most popular and impactful interviews, we interview Shawn McCraney who first appeared on Mormon Stories in February 2010to discuss his experience as a "Born-Again Mormon." Shawn currently leads a church in Murray, Utah called C.A.M.P.U.S and has continued the ministry through a weekly streaming service, called Heart of the Matter. Shawn is widely known for his bold and sometimes bare-knuckled approach when comparing Mormonism to Christianity, and given his reputation as an animated and articulate speaker, this interview will keep you entertained and perhaps inspired.
In this interview we cover:
- Part 1: Shawn provides a brief recap of his born-again experience, and then discusses the meteoric rise, and ultimately descent of his tv program Heart of the Matterafter he confronted local Utah Christian churches for focusing more on programs and tithes, and less on the Bible. According to Shawn, these churches were providing the same "bondage" to people as the Mormon Church was.
- Part 2: This segment of the interview is a conversation focusing on Shawn's theology and beliefs, and Shawn provides a pitch for why a questioning Mormon or post-Mormon should seek the Jesus of the Bible
- Part 3: Shawn describes the "bondage" he sees when local churches focus more on "religion" and less on the teachings of Jesus. After our interview with the South Mountain Community Church earlier this year, Shawn voiced concerns to Mormon Stories about our visit and in this segment, we engage in a respectful dialogue about churches such as SMCC and how they serve their congregants.
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| 1:15.3 | Hello everyone and welcome back to part three of my interview with Sean McCrainy born again Mormon. |
| 1:21.3 | I am Dr. John DeLin. This is Mormon Stories podcast. It is May 15th, 2018. |
| 1:27.6 | And for those who joined us in the first two episodes, we're bringing back Sean McCrainy eight years ago. |
| 1:33.1 | We interviewed him since then. A lot of cool things have happened. You'll have to listen to parts one and two to figure that out. |
| 1:39.6 | In part two, we talked about his theology, his beliefs now, and now it's time for the throwdown. |
| 1:47.1 | Are you ready? |
| 1:52.1 | We just had technical glitches and asked him to repeat his enthusiasm. |
| 1:56.1 | So that was fained enthusiasm. But it was good. Thank you. |
| 2:00.1 | Yeah, I'm sure you meant it. Some, some, some out. |
| 2:03.1 | Yeah. So we're going to talk about a few things. |
| 2:06.1 | So I'll give a little disclaimer. Sean's going to love this disclaimer. |
| 2:13.1 | But on Mormon Stories, the past year or two, we've been trying as part of what we do to feature spiritual paths that people who leave the LDS Church take. |
| 2:24.1 | We've interviewed people from Denver Stuffer, his tradition. We have interviewed people from the South Mountain Church, the South Mountain Community Church here in Draper, Utah. |
| 2:37.1 | And so I'll give a little background to this part three. And this was really the main reason, one of the main reasons we ended up doing these series of interviews. |
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