Mormonism LIVE: 039: When Mission Presidents Behave Badly

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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In this weeks episode of Mormonism LIVE, RFM and Bill Reel delve into some debauchery among past Mission Presidents. What they find is a common theme creating a pattern of bad behavior learning once again that unethical behavior can be made righteous within Mormonism. RESOURCES: https://byteline.blogspot.com/2007/09/sects-and-violence-part-5-continued.html https://www.dialoguejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/sbi/articles/Dialogue_V21N03_29.pdf https://www.exmormon.org/d6/drupal/France-and-Polygamous-Mormon-Missionaries https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/8fbs7u/1980s_australia_sydney_mission_prez_was_aspiring/ https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast/dr-dave-christian-on-epistemology-and-the-polygamous-mission-president/ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/deseretnews/name/orson-wright-obituary?pid=186032306 https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/8f98mh/philander_knox_smartt_the_excommunicated_puerto/ https://voices.uchicago.edu/religionculture/2018/05/20/1522/ https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/04/26/the-case-of-puerto-rico-when-the-mormon-church-promptly-removed-a-mission-president-who-deceived-and-victimized-young-female-missionaries/ https://universe.byu.edu/2018/04/27/mormon-church-kicks-out-man-who-supervised-young-women/

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0:00.0	It takes faith to believe that the resurrected Lord is watching over the details, the daily
0:07.9	details of His kingdom.
0:10.2	It takes faith to believe that He calls imperfect people into positions of trust.
0:17.1	It takes faith to believe that He knows the people He calls perfectly, both their capacities
0:24.6	and their potential, and so makes no mistakes in His calls.
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0:39.6	Mormonism.
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0:50.6	Radio-free Mormon, how are you doing this fine, exceptional Wednesday evening at 6.24
1:05.6	P.M.
1:06.6	Mountain Time.
1:07.6	Happy September to you.
1:09.6	Yeah, my birthday is in two weeks.
1:11.6	Oh, fantastic.
1:12.6	I hope everybody listening will send some sort of a present.
1:15.6	Yeah, September 14.
1:17.6	So, here we are, another show.
1:19.6	Tonight, it was your episode.
1:21.6	You have planned some incredible stories around mission presidents and people extremely close
1:28.1	to those folks.
1:29.6	And this has been a lot of fun to prepare.
1:32.6	I think the last three, four, five episodes have been an absolute blast to kind of get into.
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