Mormon Temple Worker Loses Faith - Michelle Clyde | Ep. 1949
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 271 minutes
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Summary
Michelle Clyde shares her journey of faith transition within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Growing up in Springville, Utah, she became more progressive in her views after her friend started the first gay-straight alliance in Utah Valley. Despite serving as a temple worker and in the Relief Society presidency, Michelle struggled with her experiences in the temple and her mental health. She opens up about her challenges during her mission in Taiwan, her journey through depression, and her evolving understanding of the church's history. Join us as Michelle reads from her journal and reveals the pivotal moments that led her to question her beliefs. Don’t miss this insightful discussion!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your |
| 0:04.3 | host John Delinn. It's August 27th, 2024 and we have a super cool interview for you |
| 0:10.3 | today. We found someone who like just in the past few weeks or months was |
| 0:18.6 | recently serving as a temple worker in the LDS Church as a Relief society presidency member and just recently like almost in the past few weeks |
| 0:29.5 | has sort of reached this crisis point where they're trying to figure out what to do and it |
| 0:36.7 | involves you know growing up in Utah it involves serving a mission and it's someone kind of in the Gen Z millennial kind of time frame. |
| 0:46.4 | So it's just if you want to know why 20-somethings are leaving the Mormon Church in 2024. |
| 0:53.4 | They're devout Mormons. |
| 0:55.8 | We couldn't pick, I think, a better guest for today. |
| 0:59.6 | Her name is Michelle Clyde. |
| 1:01.6 | Hey Michelle, welcome. |
| 1:02.6 | Hello. |
| 1:03.6 | And what did I get right or wrong about my description of you? |
| 1:06.7 | Like you're still active in the church, right? |
| 1:10.0 | Well, I would call myself a once a month PIMO, but like, like like you said it's been like two or three months so |
| 1:15.6 | since what since I'm like deciding that I don't believe anymore. |
| 1:19.2 | So three months ago what was your status with the church? |
| 1:21.6 | Three months ago I was still totally in. |
| 1:24.7 | Meaning and you were in a relief study presidency? I was in a relief study presidency. I was a temple |
| 1:28.6 | worker and this is in Utah County, right? This is in yeah in Provo. Okay. So you know as all it is in Provo. |
| 1:32.5 | Okay. |
| 1:33.0 | So, you know, as all it is you can get, |
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