I Asked Ex-Mormon John Dehlin What HE Would Do as The Mormon Prophet (@MormonStories)

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• CU

  @CultstoConsciousness · 3 years ago · pinned

  If YOU had the power and authority to affect real change in the LDS church, what would you do?

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• JP

  @JP-JustSayin · 3 years ago

  A point of order related to &quot;what would the church need to do to get you (John Dehlin) back?&quot; ... he never left them ... they forced him out against his will. ... its an important background point that underlines his responses.<br><br>When he says &quot;I have no hate or malice toward the church&quot; that is legit ... he never left ... he spoke up about problems (going back as far as his mission) ... and they purged him for it.<br><br>John is as &quot;straight up&quot; of a guy as the church could ever hope to have as a critic. They honestly don&apos;t deserve him.

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• SA

  @salvatorecollura2692 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Great deal of chemistry between these two. If Shelise wasn’t already busy with her own programme, she’d be a great candidate to cohost MS.

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• TA

  @tawnyachristensen7310 · 3 years ago

  Best interview I have ever seen of John Dehlin and I have seen many! Not really caffeinated, just some real passion. Real and powerful and from the heart. Amen

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• JP

  @JP-JustSayin · 3 years ago

  About &quot;the church used to do polygamy, but you can get ex&apos;d if you do that today&quot; ... imagine a timeline where the mormon church moved this aggressively off of its past racism ... imagine people being excommunicated if they were found out as racists ... LOL 😆 🤣 😂

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• RY

  @RyanHawley76 · 3 years ago (edited)

  What a great episode! Thank you both for speaking up!<br><br>My faith crisis truly is a gift! Short of marrying my wife, leaving Mormonism was the best decision of my entire life. No joke. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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• SC

  @scottbrandon6244 · 3 years ago

  A major problem people talk about is a lack of transparency. This includes finances, controversial history, doctrinal changes, gaslighting, and social issues including LGBTQ and feminism.

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• SA

  @saraht3196 · 3 years ago

  i really loved the section &quot;a woman&apos;s role&quot; because it mirrors my education in such an interesting way imo. i just got my bachelor&apos;s in international affairs and my senior seminar was all about women in war and violent extremism. one thing we covered near the end of the course was women&apos;s roles in peacemaking. studies have shown that peace agreements that involve women are more likely to last longer than 15 years and often more adequately address the needs of the affected groups because of the roles women play in community building. if mormons involved more women in conversations about administration, leadership, family, etc., i think it would only make them stronger 🤷‍♀ <br><br>also this may just be me, i think that we as nonmormons/nevermormons should be allowed to see our loved ones do things in the temple like get married. from the outside, the secrecy and exclusion is really offputting, and since the mormon church emphasizes family so much, this would end so much pain in interfaith families and communities. and let&apos;s be real, those &quot;secret&quot; rituals were ripped from the masons and have been posted on the internet lolol

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• VE

  @VetsrisAuguste · 3 years ago

  The comments about the age for baptism really struck a nerve for me.<br>I will never forget the time ran across my baptismal certificate while visiting my mother. &nbsp;I was in my thirties by then and a decade into my de-conversion process. Any feelings of nostalgia evaporated immediately when I saw (and recognized) my own barely legible signature.<br>It dawned on me then that I had not only been indoctrinated by the church, I had also been coerced into signing a covenant with god before I even had the ability to write my own name, let alone having a clue what a covenant actually is.

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• CO

  @ConnieRichard · 3 years ago

  As I&apos;m sitting her watching this great podcast, I&apos;d like o say that during the LGBTQ+ Policy discussion, I felt physically sick. Not only sick at the great explanation John was giving, but sick that I was supportive of the policies when they came out. I, seriously, want to cry and throw up that the church made these policies and that I thought this was okay. Excuse me while I go puke and repent, whichever comes first. The best I can do is to say I&apos;m sorry for who I use to be.

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• EL

  @elainesutter5761 · 3 years ago

  This episode was so healing! Thank you!

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• KA

  @katieramos5868 · 3 years ago

  Unitarian Universalist and former Our Whole Lives instructor here. Thank you, John, for the shout-out to OWL, but I&apos;d be remiss if I didn&apos;t point out that the Unitarian Universalist Association developed the curriculum in partnership with the United Church of Christ. What&apos;s really amazing is various progressive Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc. churches are starting to come to us to adapt the curriculum to their faiths as they find there are too many gaps in school sex education.<br><br>Also, OWL doesn&apos;t only teach sex education. It also teaches what healthy relationships look like, and I think that&apos;s something almost everyone could get behind, regardless of their beliefs about sex. I&apos;d love to see schools teach healthy relationships.

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