The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy - Carol Lynn Pearson | Ep. 2122 (Re-Broadcast)
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
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šļø 11 March 2026
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Summary
Welcome back to Carol Lynn Pearson week on Mormon Stories podcast, as we re-visit two very important interviews with a one-of-a-kind Mormon woman.
Today's episode was originally recorded in 2018, when we teamed up with Sunstone to do a live recording where we discussed Pearson's book, The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy. Special thanks to the Salt Lake City Community of Christ for hosting such a wonderful evening and for the many listeners who came to enjoy the experience.
In our next episode, we will close out the week by welcoming Carol Lynn Pearson back on the podcast to celebrate the release of her new book, The Diaries of Carol Lynn Pearson. We will also be joined on that interview by the director of Signature Books, Barbara Jones Brown.
Please help us support Carol Lynn Pearson and purchase her new memoir, ā hereā .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to a very exciting and important week on Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | It is Carol Lynn Pearson Week, where we will be introducing to our current audience. |
| 0:12.4 | Definitely one of the most important interviewees ever on Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:17.3 | Absolutely a top five favorite of mine in terms of a beautiful, brilliant human who's |
| 0:23.6 | wise, but also one of the most important voices in the history of 20th and 21st century |
| 0:30.0 | Mormonism. Her name is Carolyn Pearson. She is a poet. She's an author. She's a playwright. |
| 0:37.3 | She's written songs. She has been an advocate for poet. She's an author. She's a playwright. She's written songs. She has been an advocate |
| 0:40.7 | for women. She's been an advocate for Heavenly Mother, for LGBT Mormons. She was an advocate for |
| 0:46.9 | LGBT Mormons before anyone else was. And she's written some of the most important books ever |
| 0:52.1 | in the history of Mormonism. She wrote a book called Goodbye, I Love You, where it was an international bestseller, |
| 0:57.8 | where she talked about nursing her husband to his death with AIDS, and she was, you know, |
| 1:04.6 | Oprah, Phil Donahue-level international bestseller. |
| 1:08.2 | She wrote the primary song, I'll walk with you, the lyrics for that. |
| 1:12.1 | She wrote the lyrics for My Turn on Earth, the musical, the Mormon musical. She wrote the book |
| 1:17.9 | The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, which talks about how polygamy still haunts us today. She has |
| 1:24.1 | written so many, so many important books. |
| 1:31.7 | And so what we're going to be doing this week on Carolyn Pearson week, we're going to be rebroadcasting two of my epic interviews with Carolyn Pearson. |
| 1:36.2 | This is one of the earliest video interviews I ever did. |
| 1:39.8 | It was episodes 173 through 177, released August 15th, 2010. |
| 1:47.7 | So this goes way back lower than episode 200. |
| 1:51.2 | We're going to basically take that full interview that I broke up into like four or five |
| 1:56.3 | parts. |
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