Threatened with Excommunication TWICE in Tennessee - Todd and Lindsay McCormick | Ep. 2027
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 184 minutes
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Summary
Lindsay and Todd McCormick, a couple from Knoxville, Tennessee, share their powerful and emotional journey navigating faith, doubt, and community pressure within the LDS Church. From their musical Mormon upbringing and successful business ventures to being threatened twice with excommunication, this interview dives deep into the cost of questioning and choosing authenticity over conformity.
They open up about their faith crisis, the controversial City Creek Mall, navigating parenthood in the church, and ultimately, their heartbreaking experience with betrayal from close friends and leaders. Through all of it, their love for each other and desire for truth remained steadfast.
Topics include:
-Faith deconstruction and polygamy
-Church discipline and double standards
-Excommunication threats and “apostasy”
-Cultural expectations, identity, and healing
-Choosing honesty over fear in Mormonism
-Watch their raw and courageous story unfold.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm your host, John DeLinn. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm here with my partner and co-host Margie. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, Margie. |
| 0:07.5 | Hi, there. |
| 0:08.4 | Today, our episode, we're a live recording on location in Knoxville, Tennessee or near |
| 0:16.2 | Knoxville, Tennessee. |
| 0:17.6 | And this is going to be a two-part series from Knoxville, Tennessee. Today's episode is |
| 0:24.4 | about a standard, normal Mormon couple, in this case from Knoxville, Tennessee, or living in |
| 0:31.9 | Knoxville, Tennessee, who has a faith journey and ends up being threatened twice with excommunication. |
| 0:39.3 | So what in the world would just cause a couple not trying to make waves, |
| 0:44.5 | just going through their own faith journey, be threatened twice with excommunication? |
| 0:49.6 | And then also like, what does it mean to have sort of this down-home, multi-generational Knoxville, |
| 0:57.4 | Tennessee, Mormon family? |
| 0:59.6 | What does it mean to be the first in a family like that to struggle with their Mormon faith? |
| 1:05.1 | And what are the implications of that? |
| 1:07.0 | So that's kind of what today's episode is about. |
| 1:10.1 | For this interview, we have Lindsay and |
| 1:13.0 | Todd McCormick. Hey, guys. Hello. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for coming out. |
| 1:18.9 | Y'all may remember that months ago, we interviewed a bishop or former bishop, Nathan Hinkley, |
| 1:26.9 | to talk about his interactions as a former bishop with his |
| 1:31.1 | stake president. Well, Nathan Hinkley is the brother of Lindsay McCormick. That's your brother. |
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