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Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

The Mormon Church in Canada: Timothy Sawa & Mark Kelley with Stephen Knight | Podcast 513

Shaun Attwoods True Crime Podcast

Shaun Attwood Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey gentlemen, good to see you and hear you. How are you doing? Good you. Good, thank you very much.

0:08.0

Just to be clear, are you both starting name order area of you? It's done a switch of Rooney on me just to confuse me.

0:14.0

That is the name order.

0:16.0

Fantastically organized. We've done, we've done cleared the first hurdle straight away. This is great.

0:20.0

Simmythi, maybe you could start please tell me a little bit about who you are and your background for those that might not be aware.

0:26.0

For sure. So I'm a producer and a journalist in Canada working at work for a program called the fifth state, which is our investigative documentary program at the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

0:38.0

Like panorama in the UK, if you familiar with that, we'd be your version of panorama.

0:44.0

So we make one hour documentaries investigative documentaries and I'm a producer and a director with the show.

0:50.0

And this guy next to me is one of our presenters and hosts.

0:54.0

Excellent. Mark, maybe you can tell us a little bit about yourself too.

0:59.0

Seriously, great to meet you. I am one of the co-hosts of the fifth state being with the program for about 10 years, 35 year career as a journalist here in Canada.

1:10.0

And fifth state is Canada's premier investigative program. We've been on the entering our 49th season this year and we tackle stories that deal with Canadians.

1:22.0

And Canadians who are around the world and that really brought us to the story of the Mormon Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a global, global church that has a presence here in Canada, huge presence in the United States.

1:38.0

But one that got our interest and kept us traveling around the world for some months last year.

1:43.0

Well, I watched your expose there and it was fascinating and it was certainly an eye-opener for me. I mean, I know a fair bit about the theology.

1:50.0

Didn't realize how much money was involved and specifically where it isn't spent.

1:56.0

So, I mean, before we get into the details then, it might be worth talking about the Mormon faith in general, for those who want to burst in it.

2:04.0

In what ways does it diverge from a sort of mainstream Christian theology? What differentiates Mormonism from a sort of, you know, Catholic understanding?

2:16.0

I'm not a theological expert, so I'm going to be careful about how much I pretend to be one.

2:23.0

I mean, I can tell you just a little bit about what we learned while we were working on the program, but I mean, I can't really speak to the faith too deeply, other than to say it is an organization that exists around the world.

2:35.0

It has hundreds of thousands of members, millions of members around the world.

2:41.0

17 million members around the world, 300 temples, 74 countries.

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