s4 E61 Family is Forever: the divine power behind the doctrine of the family with Jenet Erickson (Family Proclamation)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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In this episode Kerry and Jenet Erickson discuss the powerful doctrine of the family and look at how scholarship both backs up that doctrine and how it can help us figure out how to apply it in our lives. Jenet helps us see the power of parental, marital, and sibling relationships. Together they help us see the hope for strong families and for how Christ makes up the difference in struggling families.
We are grateful for our executive producers, J. Parke, D. Watson, D. Van Blerkom, the Dawsons, M. Cannon, M. Rosema, B. Fisher, J. Beardall, D. Anderson, and H. Umphlett, and for all our generous and loyal donors. We are also very grateful for all our Patreon members. We are so thankful for Beehive Broadcast for producing the podcast and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures A Real podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that help them become real to us |
| 0:16.0 | so that we can draw more power out of them because we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm your host, Carrie Mulestein, and I'm so glad to have with us in our studio today, Dr. Janet Erickson. Thank you for being with us, Jenner. I love being with you, Carrie. Thank you. Well, the feeling is mutual. So we've had you on as a guest before a few times, and it's always been wonderful. So our audience may be familiar with you. Some of our audience will be. Others may not |
| 0:38.1 | have heard of you before. So I'll tell them just a little bit about you if it's all right, Janet. |
| 0:41.6 | Of course. Janet has a PhD in family studies, right? I wanted to make sure I remember that |
| 0:46.9 | correctly. She teaches in the same college I teach in in religious education and teaches the course |
| 0:53.2 | on eternal family pretty much nonstop and is fantastic at it. |
| 0:58.4 | She's also just a prolific writer and speaker because she has such a profound understanding of the principles on the proclamation on the family and the way it interacts with us as individuals and her background in family studies. |
| 1:16.6 | I would recommend her devotional given in November of 2024, am I remembering right? |
| 1:22.6 | Or 2023. |
| 1:23.6 | There we go. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, November of 2023. |
| 1:26.6 | Time flies at BYU. Really powerful, really profound. |
| 1:32.4 | What else should we know about you, Janet? Oh, I think, I love to say, Carrie, that I was single for what felt like a long time. |
| 1:39.2 | Got married when my husband and I were both 34. And it was a miracle to find each other. |
| 1:43.8 | In our church, that's forever. |
| 1:45.5 | At that time, it seemed like that. |
| 1:47.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:48.4 | And I think what was interesting is to have studied family, my PhD family social science |
| 1:52.5 | and taught about it at BYU. |
| 1:54.1 | And then to get married and live it was a different experience. |
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