Episode 492: Ginger Price, Resigned from Church, Positive Experience Sharing Her Journey

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Episode 492: Ginger Price, Resigned from Church, Positive Experience Sharing Her Journey with Stake Presidency/Bishops My friend Ginger McKnight Price (married mother of four, RM) shares her journey with serving a mission (good experience) and then the events that led her to resign from the Church in 2018. Ginger is open, vulnerable and honest. She is not asking others to leave or not believe in the Church but shares the pain of having her faith shift and losing her community and a sense of belonging. Ginger talks about a social media post of an active Latter-day Saint saying kind things about those who leave the church that led to a friendship of understanding. Ginger then moved to from Alaska to Utah and was surprised to learn she was moving into the stake boundaries of this Latter-day Saint, Ed Hegemann who is serving as Stake President and is the Utah State Institute Director. President Heggeman invited Ginger to share her experience with the entire Stake Presidency and 8 Bishops. Ginger later wrote: “For the first time in twenty years, my perception of Mormon men shifted for the better. As I shared my story and answered questions, I felt nothing but a strong sense of love and genuine interest in how these men could do better at loving and treating others who are, or have experienced, a loss of belief in Mormonism.” She adds “I hoped for, but wasn’t quite sure just how cathartic and healing this hour and a half experience would be. The cleansing that come was absolutely purifying”. See Ginger’s post on this experience here: https://www.facebook.com/ginger.mcknightprice/posts/10160234772359575 Thank you President Hegmann for your leadership, ability to listen, and making this healing experience possible. Thank you Ginger for being on the podcast and having the courage to share your experience. Your story helps Church members better minister to those with questions about their faith or step away from the Church. You are strong, honest, vulnerable and have a great heart full of love and grace. You continue to make the world a better place and help bring us together as the same human family.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.8	My guest on today's podcast is my friend of two and a half years and I'm meeting for the first time who's here in my home.
0:17.2	Ginger Price, welcome to the podcast, Ginger.
0:19.8	Thank you, Richard.
0:21.4	Ginger and I have been exchanging messages for a long time, and she had a wonderful post that will be part of this podcast that will be helpful.
0:29.8	But as far as an introduction, Ginger is a married mother of fours, married for 14 years, has spent time living in Alaska and
0:41.0	Utah, grew up in Cash Valley, Utah, served a mission to Detroit, English speaking,
0:48.3	and then she'll talk about a journey to eventually resign from the church. So you're going to hear a podcast
0:56.5	and somebody that has resigned from the church. That happened in 2018, the fall. So that's
1:02.5	about three years ago. She'll talk about sort of what led her to that decision and why she
1:08.3	did that. And she still, this isn't a story of where I'm going to say now she's been rebaptized.
1:14.3	It's not that kind of a podcast, but it is a podcast where recently she had a wonderful
1:19.6	experience with her steak president where her stake president invited Ginger to share her
1:27.1	story with the stake presidency and the eight bishops
1:29.7	in the steak, and they just spent time listening to Ginger. And Ginger's going to talk about
1:35.3	how healing and helpful that experience was. And that is an experience I think all local leaders
1:41.6	can do is to take the time to listen to people and to help us see
1:46.1	each other as the same human family.
1:49.2	So that's kind of, you know, our hope is that this is like the podcast where people share
1:55.1	honest stories to help us just see each other as the same human family and just to honor to try to find unity in diversity
2:05.0	or heal our divide and often listening to people that have different life experiences
2:10.4	Dennis helps heal our divide. So we said a prayer before we started. We just hope this podcast
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