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Radio Free Mormon: 207: “Heaven Up Here”

Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Discussion Inc

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

RFM interviews John Kirk Williams, author of “Heaven Up Here,” a memoir of his two-year LDS church mission to Bolivia! John talks about his mission, his time working for the church curriculum department, and the events that led him to lose belief in Mormonism!

Transcript

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And the Testing one, two three, testing one, two one two three this is radio free Mormon on the air

0:27.6

Broadcasting behind enemy lines tonight's episode heaven Heaven Up Here.

0:34.2

Heaven Up Here is a name of an extraordinary book

0:37.4

that came out a few years ago,

0:39.7

and it details a certain missionaries mission experience in Bolivia in the early 1980s.

0:47.0

The author of that book is John K Williams or John Kirk Williams on the cover,'s John K Williams but I am delighted tonight

0:55.4

to have the author of this book on the program to talk about his book and other

1:00.0

experiences he has had in the church after his mission. John Williams, welcome to the show.

1:06.2

Thank you, it's really great to be here. Well I want to tell the audience just a little bit

1:11.8

about our relationship because I have

1:15.0

actually known John virtually for a number of years now probably over 10 years now

1:21.0

actually but the way I'm sorry go ahead at least yeah it's

1:26.4

amazing how time flies but yeah when I say virtually I mean I've never met John

1:31.5

personally but I have known him through certain internet message boards relating to Mormonism.

1:39.0

Yep, yep, a long time ago that we met. I think we were both still on the other side.

1:47.0

We were and I think we've gone through a transition process, maybe at a similar point in time. The first time I think we met was on the former

1:55.3

Mormon apologetic discussion board which was hosted by Fair. Now Fair

2:01.6

Mormon, everything seems to be changing names.

2:04.0

Fair used to host this board and then Fair somehow got disentangled from hosting the board and they changed the name of it to the Mormon Dialogue and

2:13.9

Discussions Board which is a banner under which it now flies and I think that's

2:18.6

where I met you first. Yeah I believe that's, probably 10 or 15 years ago.

2:25.0

Yes, and I posted there under the name Consiglieri, and you posted there under the name, was it Run-Too?

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