Returning to Mormonism after Falling Away - Summur-Rayn Berrett Pt. 1 | Ep. 1887
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 209 minutes
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Summary
What happens when a multiracial woman raised in a loving family that valued advocacy, positivity, and education joins the Mormon church? Summur's fascinating journey takes you from her NFL player father desegregating a team, to her mother fiercely protecting her from bullies and racism. Despite nurturing experiences at home, Summur faced harsh judgments and segregationist attitudes at church - a stark contrast that began shaping her doubts. Her path winds through BYU, an African American Studies class that unveiled new perspectives, and a traumatic racist cop incident, before working as a flight attendant and meeting her husband.
With a unique multicultural lens, Summur shares the powerful family influences, eye-opening experiences, and pivotal moments like a young girl's innocent "Look mommy, a Lamanite" comment that led her to fundamentally question certain Mormon teachings and toxic cultures like purity culture. Prepare for an insightful, thought-provoking journey through the eyes of a Black Mormon woman.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host |
| 0:03.4 | John Delin. It's April 10th, 2024. We're here with Margie. Hey Margie. |
| 0:08.4 | Hey Margie. And we are so excited. This is an interview we've been working on for I don't know six months how long |
| 0:15.0 | We're so excited to have with this in studio summer rain Barrett. Hey summer |
| 0:19.2 | Hello. How are you? Hi everybody |
| 0:26.4 | Summer's got a great Mormon story. There's so many cool themes. |
| 0:32.2 | She grew up back east. I mean obviously there's going to be so many themes. Her dad, Burgess Owens, is a former NFL football player. He's also |
| 0:36.2 | currently one of the four congressmen in the state of Utah. But actually that's not really what we're going to be talking |
| 0:43.4 | about today and it's actually not why we're interviewing summer. There's so many |
| 0:46.7 | cool themes, you know, growing up, she kind of her family converted to the church. |
| 0:51.6 | She grew up kind of in the New York, you |
| 0:54.4 | know Pennsylvania, Northeast. You know there will be some talks about you know |
| 1:00.4 | kind of racial issues within the church that'll come up you know she's been through a |
| 1:05.0 | a faith journey but also she's in a mixed faith marriage now and she also just has a really cool |
| 1:11.5 | Mormon story she took a path that I think a lot of our |
| 1:16.0 | traditional Utah born and bred kind of Mormons didn't. So it represents an entire kind of experience that we haven't had a lot on |
| 1:26.6 | enormous stories, including being a flight attendant, including working for an NFL |
| 1:31.0 | football team. |
| 1:32.0 | Right, exactly. Yeah, a lot of cool things. working for an NFL football team, right? Exactly. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah, love it. |
| 1:34.0 | A lot of cool things. |
| 1:35.0 | Being, you know, being less active as a young adult |
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