Why Young Women Are Leaving the Mormon Church - Caroline Barrow | Ep. 2076
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 249 minutes
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Summary
Caroline Barrow was raised in a typical Mormon household in Louisiana. While she was a faithful believer in the Church, she always had questions about certain teachings but was often encouraged to halt her critical thinking on these issues. She chose to attend BYU and serve a Mormon mission, but continued to be plagued by questions—particularly around polygamy and the treatment of women in the LDS faith. Caroline also found herself struggling with scrupulosity, perfectionism, and the many pressures placed on women in the Church.
Listen as she shares her story of how she confronted these questions and learned to trust herself and her instincts as an analytical woman within the Mormon faith.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:03.3 | John DeLinn. It is October 17th, 2025. Today we're interviewing Caroline Barrow. Hey, Caroline. |
| 0:10.4 | Hi. Welcome. Thank you. I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:13.9 | Caroline is a raised in the LDS Church, return missionary, BYU, Provo grad, who's currently at law school at LSU. |
| 0:24.1 | Yes. Go Tigers, right? |
| 0:25.7 | Go Tigers. |
| 0:26.1 | Yes. |
| 0:27.3 | She was raised in Louisiana and we'll be telling your story. She'll be telling your story. |
| 0:32.5 | But if you want to know a sneak preview of kind of the themes, we're going to be talking about |
| 0:38.1 | a general Mormon story. |
| 0:41.2 | There's going to be themes of scrupulosity, of perfectionism, interesting experiences |
| 0:46.1 | on the mission, but also battling questions and reconciling questions while on a mission, |
| 0:55.7 | while on BYU, really throughout her whole life, even from her childhood, and then kind of where those battles with questions and |
| 1:01.0 | with scrupulosity and other things have taken her as she's in her second year of law school. |
| 1:06.7 | Now, how was that for an intro? |
| 1:08.2 | Is that okay? |
| 1:09.2 | That was perfect. |
| 1:10.1 | Any other big themes you think we should get people a preview about? |
| 1:13.1 | Um, I think you did a good job. |
| 1:15.8 | I think the only other thing I would say is just how I've learned to trust myself more, |
| 1:21.7 | which was, I think, you know, you touched on scrupulosity and stuff, which makes that difficult. |
| 1:26.2 | Oh, yeah. |
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