The Future of Mormonism (2025 Edition) w/ Roger Hendrix | Ep. 2098
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 211 minutes
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Summary
Please join us for a live episode with Roger Hendrix - one of the highest ranking Latter-day Saints ever interviewed on Mormon Stories Podcast. Roger served as CES Director, Bishop, Stake Presidency Member, Mission President, and served for 18 years as a Trustee on the board of the Deseret Trust Company (called to the position by President Gordon B. Hinckley).
Today we are discussing the Church’s renewed emphasis on the Atonement, its place in within Western Christianity, and whether recent shifts represent genuine change, pragmatic adaptation, or strategic rebranding. We dig into uncomfortable questions about wealth, humanitarian efforts, racial history, LGBTQ issues, missionary growth, and the Church’s ability (or unwillingness) to acknowledge past harm.
The discussion also looks forward: What is the future of Mormonism? Will the Church change its stance on same-sex marriage, women and the priesthood, or the Word of Wisdom? How are Apostles chosen, how does power function at the top, and what would it take -if anything -to bring former members back into activity?
This episode includes thoughtful pushback from multiple perspectives, audience comments, and a lightning round of predictions that gets very real, very fast!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. This is a special |
| 0:04.4 | end-of-year edition of Mormon Stories podcast. It is December 22nd, 2025. We're three days from Christmas, |
| 0:12.2 | and we thought it would be super fun to do a live stream, to pull together a panel of fun people, |
| 0:19.7 | and to discuss the future of Mormonism. |
| 0:24.2 | We've got a bunch of special guests with us today. We are live streaming, so we look forward |
| 0:31.2 | to those of you who have joined us live, commenting or asking questions. Please do those as |
| 0:36.7 | super chats to make sure that we see them. |
| 0:39.3 | But most importantly, we're going to have a lot of fun today. So today, joining us in studio, |
| 0:44.5 | rejoining us in studio, is Roger Hendrix. Some of you who are longtime Mormon stories |
| 0:51.3 | affixionados, is that a word? We'll remember Roger. Roger Hendricks |
| 0:56.5 | is a former bishop. He's a former state presidency member. He's a former CES director in |
| 1:03.0 | Southern California. And he is a former member of the board of directors of the Deserate |
| 1:10.3 | trust company. Right. Called by the Gorbore. of the board of directors of the Deseret Trust Company. |
| 1:12.4 | Right. |
| 1:13.7 | Called by the Gordon B. Hinkley that oversees, or at least oversaw at the time, a lot of the church assets. |
| 1:20.8 | But we did, how many hours do we do with you, Roger, on Mormon Stories? |
| 1:24.6 | All together. |
| 1:25.5 | In your original episode? |
| 1:26.9 | About, oh, wow, well six seven hours is that |
| 1:30.9 | does it might have been even 10 but it was a lot but um yeah that was a great episode and then we had you |
| 1:36.9 | back to do the future of Mormonism a few years ago is that right there it was three more hours |
| 1:41.7 | yeah and uh so if the former one was 10 and the last one was 3, 13, this would be a lot. Okay. |
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