938: Steven Hassan - What the Mormon Church Can Learn From Cults to Do/Be Better Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mormon Stories Podcast, we interview the world’s foremost cult expert, Steven Hassan, to discuss what the Mormon church can learn from destructive cults to do/be better. Steven Hassan is the author of several books including “Combating Mind Control: The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults.”
In part 2 of this episode, we solicit the feedback of some of our listeners as we view Mormonism through the lens of Hassan’s BITE Model.
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| 1:23.0 | All right. Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host |
| 1:35.0 | John DeLin. It is June 1st, 2018. I am so super excited for today's episode. We have some really, |
| 1:45.0 | we have an amazing guest and an amazing topic in store for you today. So today, let me go ahead |
| 1:55.0 | and switch over to my other screen. Today we are going to be interviewing on Mormon Stories podcast, |
| 2:07.0 | Stephen Hassan. Stephen is the world's expert in cults. He's written a book called Combating |
| 2:17.0 | Cult Mind Control and he's going to be joining us in about 23 minutes but we're really, |
| 2:24.0 | really excited to be interviewing him. And the reason why I'm doing an introduction before we |
| 2:30.0 | actually bring him on is because he's only able to give us an hour of his time and there's so much to cover. |
| 2:38.0 | And so I'm going to be covering some of the material before we actually bring him on so that we can use all of our time with him very efficiently. |
| 2:48.0 | Let me give you guys just a little bit of a kind of heads up on what you're going to hear today. Just a little bit background in me for those of you |
| 2:58.0 | who don't know. You know, we're anticipating that Stephen is going to be sharing this presentation broader to his network. |
| 3:05.0 | And so I'm just going to give a literature to my self. Those of you who are Mormon Stories fans will know this. |
| 3:11.0 | My name is John Delin. I grew up as an Orthodox Mormon in Katie, Texas. I served Mormon Mission in Guatemala. |
| 3:18.0 | I married my wife Margie in the Washington DC Temple after attending a Brigham Young University. |
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