Leaving the Mormon Church to Save My Family - Elisha Lee | Ep. 1925
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 223 minutes
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Summary
Elisha Lee takes us on an emotional journey through her life from experiencing her parents' divorce as a child to facing intense shame and scrutiny as a teenager. She shares raw accounts of bishop interviews, religious scrupulosity, and the pressure to conform to church standards. As a young adult, Elisha threw herself into church devotion, only to later confront doubts that would unravel her faith. Her candid reflections on marriage, parenthood, and personal growth in the wake of leaving Mormonism offer valuable insights for anyone navigating religious transitions. This interview explores the complexities of deconstructing one's faith while finding new meaning and authentic relationships beyond the church.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast I'm your |
| 0:03.8 | host John de Lynn I'm here with my brilliant partner Margie Himmargie hello and |
| 0:10.5 | we are here today to share an interview that I've been wanting to do for literally years. |
| 0:18.0 | Different themes are relevant today, including what to do when your identity is completely Mormon and then you |
| 0:27.2 | start to have questions about your faith or I like the proposed title how questioning or doubting or I don't know |
| 0:36.9 | leaving Mormonism saved my family. But regardless this is one of those traditional long-form deep dive faith journey Mormon stories interviews with |
| 0:48.8 | Alicia Lee. Hey Alicia! |
| 0:50.3 | Oh my goodness I am so excited to be here you guys. We are so thrilled to have you. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, I mean it really has been years that we've been talking about doing this |
| 1:00.8 | episode and I just don't think I had the perspective necessary to do it |
| 1:08.0 | until like literally right now. |
| 1:12.0 | Yeah, yeah and just as an intro some of the themes we'll be talking about today include eternal |
| 1:16.6 | families or eternally broken families. |
| 1:19.0 | Yep. |
| 1:20.0 | We're going to be talking about modesty sort of modesty culture, purity culture kind of stuff. |
| 1:27.6 | Worthyness stuff. Again, faith journeys, mixed faith marriage, parenting, all sorts of stuff. |
| 1:36.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:37.5 | Well and I am excited also to talk about kind of this idea of religious scrupulous oh right and kind of this idea of religious scrupulous |
| 1:42.8 | Oh right and kind of some of my |
| 1:45.8 | challenges to this concept when it comes to |
| 1:49.3 | Mormonism and particularly like the brand of Mormonism that I was attached to which was kind of a |
| 1:55.6 | makonky inspired sort of approach to the gospel that like the more you put in the more you |
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