Four (or Five) Types of Mormons? - Are LDS Church Members Secularizing? | Ep. 2074
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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šļø 23 October 2025
ā±ļø 192 minutes
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Summary
Join John Dehlin, Julie Hanks, Jana Spangler, and Beau Oyler (the Mormon Bridgebuilders) as we review a new analysis of LDS Church members by Alex Bass.
Links:
- Robert Kirby's 5 Types of Mormons
00:00:00 Introduction
00:06:15 Maddie Packer clip
00:11:29 Julieās response to this clip
00:16:44 How social media plays into the problem - only sound bits are shared
00:23:52 Introducing Alex Bass
00:26:05 Alexās āMormon Typology Reportā
00:28:23 How Alex conducted this survey
00:29:49 The Four Types of Mormons
00:32:27 First type: ādevout believers"
00:33:47 Second typer: āThe adaptive believersā
00:43:32 Is Mormon Orthodoxy in decline?
00:52:33 Third Type: āThe Inbetweenersā
00:55:42 Fourth Type: āCultural Mormonsā
01:12:24 Graph of how the groups are changing over time
01:15:27 Saying goodbye and thank you to Alex
01:16:15 Ben Parkās summary of this study
01:19:14 Applications to BYU are declining
01:30:33 LDS is the highest republican group
01:37:17 Half of mormons now support same-sex marriage
01:54:35 Mayci Nealey (SLOMW) clip
01:54:42 Welcoming Patrick Mason to the panel
02:17:00 Jana on the "Hallmarks of developmental psychologyā
02:28:43 How Mormon Stories has tried to encourage people to stay in the church
02:3214 The three types of Mormons who are still attending church
02:39:30 How wards have different āpersonalitiesā
02:58:21 Closing thoughts
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host for today, |
| 0:05.7 | John DeLinn. It's October 21st, 2025. And today we're answering the question, are there four or five |
| 0:15.2 | types of Mormonisms or of Mormons or more? So this is just for those who have been following us recently, |
| 0:24.1 | we have a crew that we've been assembling regularly. |
| 0:27.9 | This crew consists of the Dr. Julie Hanks. |
| 0:31.7 | Hey, Julie. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello. |
| 0:33.1 | Welcome. |
| 0:33.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:34.5 | And the Bishop Boehler. |
| 0:36.3 | Hey, Bo. |
| 0:36.9 | Hey, hey, got to be back. And the |
| 0:38.7 | Jan Spangler, Jan Spang, not to be confused with Janice. Janoree. Janice. My good friend, |
| 0:45.9 | Janoree. Jay Span, what is it? Jay Spang? We call each other recent Spang. |
| 0:51.4 | Recent Spang. All right. So we've got Spang here with us as well. And we are, we are not the Avengers. We're not the X-Men. We're the Mormon bridge builders. Is that cheesy? I love it. I think it's great. Yeah? I think it's great. It's like superhero, it gives superhero vibes. For sure. That's okay, though? Yeah, I think it's a great thing. Okay. Yeah, we're like... What's that? Matching T-shirts like to wear. Yeah, we should. We're tired of... I was thinking this today. On the one hand, we're all tired of polarization. And then I thought, who's the author of polarization in Mormonism? |
| 1:28.6 | It's me. |
| 1:29.8 | So like on the one hand, I've been like, I'm telling me. |
| 1:33.8 | I was thinking Satan. |
| 1:35.0 | No. |
| 1:35.9 | I guess John DeLand. |
| 1:36.7 | There's a lot of audio. |
| 1:38.0 | There's a lot of member or people like making that connection right now. |
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