Mormon Stories Podcast

Join us now as we discuss Part 1 in our series of parenting after a Mormon Faith Crisis. In this episode Natasha Helfer Parker, Margi Dehlin, and John Dehlin provide some overarching principles to guide post-Orthodox parenting. We also take your questions and comments.

In February of this year, the Truth & Transparency Foundationreleased an audio recording made by Sean Escobar as he confronted his abuser as a child, Sterling Van Wagenen—co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival and director of many LDS Church-produced films, including the films shown in LDS temples. The story of the abuse and its impact has now made national news, spurred by the continuing coverage of The Truth and Transparency Foundationas it was revealed that even though the abuse was reported to LDS Church authorities, Sterling was not excommunicated, but went on to work as a professor at Brigham Young University and produce many LDS Church films. Since the release of the audio recording by TTF, Sterling has since pled guilty to separate charges of child sex abuse in Utahand is currently awaiting sentencing. In this interview, we share the complete audio recording of Sean's confrontation with Sterling, and then we process how the abuse affected Sean's life, including the fallout related to sharing the audio recording with The Truth and Transparency Foundation including the discovery of more victims.

In February of this year, the Truth & Transparency Foundationreleased an audio recording made by Sean Escobar as he confronted his abuser as a child, Sterling Van Wagenen—co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival and director of many LDS Church-produced films, including the films shown in LDS temples. The story of the abuse and its impact has now made national news, spurred by the continuing coverage of The Truth and Transparency Foundationas it was revealed that even though the abuse was reported to LDS Church authorities, Sterling was not excommunicated, but went on to work as a professor at Brigham Young University and produce many LDS Church films. Since the release of the audio recording by TTF, Sterling has since pled guilty to separate charges of child sex abuse in Utahand is currently awaiting sentencing. In this interview, we share the complete audio recording of Sean's confrontation with Sterling, and then we process how the abuse affected Sean's life, including the fallout related to sharing the audio recording with The Truth and Transparency Foundation including the discovery of more victims.

Join us today on Mormon Stories as we interview both Sean and Crystal Escobar to learn about their faith journey out of Mormonism. Sean recently made national newswhen he revealed a recording he made as he confronted his abuser as a child, Sterling Van Wagenen—co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival and director of many LDS Church-produced films, including the films shown in LDS temples. This portion of the interview focuses on Sean and Crystal's faith journey and will include themes such as: Their Mormon background including their experiences in the church as youth and as missionaries How guilt and shame from transgressions as a youth impacted Sean's mission and outlook on life Sean and Crystal's difficult experiences with the repentance process affected their early marriage How discovering a calling Sean had received was uninspired by his priesthood leader greatly shook his faith How Crystal's experience with Mormon Stories helped her be more empathetic towards Sean's struggles with his faith and church leadership How leaving the LDS Church has caused a new awakening in their marriage and family as they reevaluate their relationship, their parenting, and their new moral code for living ...and so much more.  

Join us today on Mormon Stories as we interview both Sean and Crystal Escobar to learn about their faith journey out of Mormonism. Sean recently made national newswhen he revealed a recording he made as he confronted his abuser as a child, Sterling Van Wagenen—co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival and director of many LDS Church-produced films, including the films shown in LDS temples. This portion of the interview focuses on Sean and Crystal's faith journey and will include themes such as: Their Mormon background including their experiences in the church as youth and as missionaries How guilt and shame from transgressions as a youth impacted Sean's mission and outlook on life Sean and Crystal's difficult experiences with the repentance process affected their early marriage How discovering a calling Sean had received was uninspired by his priesthood leader greatly shook his faith How Crystal's experience with Mormon Stories helped her be more empathetic towards Sean's struggles with his faith and church leadership How leaving the LDS Church has caused a new awakening in their marriage and family as they reevaluate their relationship, their parenting, and their new moral code for living ...and so much more.  

Join us today on Mormon Stories as we interview both Sean and Crystal Escobar to learn about their faith journey out of Mormonism. Sean recently made national newswhen he revealed a recording he made as he confronted his abuser as a child, Sterling Van Wagenen—co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival and director of many LDS Church-produced films, including the films shown in LDS temples. This portion of the interview focuses on Sean and Crystal's faith journey and will include themes such as: Their Mormon background including their experiences in the church as youth and as missionaries How guilt and shame from transgressions as a youth impacted Sean's mission and outlook on life Sean and Crystal's difficult experiences with the repentance process affected their early marriage How discovering a calling Sean had received was uninspired by his priesthood leader greatly shook his faith How Crystal's experience with Mormon Stories helped her be more empathetic towards Sean's struggles with his faith and church leadership How leaving the LDS Church has caused a new awakening in their marriage and family as they reevaluate their relationship, their parenting, and their new moral code for living ...and so much more.  

Join us today on Mormon Stories as we interview both Sean and Crystal Escobar to learn about their faith journey out of Mormonism. Sean recently made national newswhen he revealed a recording he made as he confronted his abuser as a child, Sterling Van Wagenen—co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival and director of many LDS Church-produced films, including the films shown in LDS temples. This portion of the interview focuses on Sean and Crystal's faith journey and will include themes such as: Their Mormon background including their experiences in the church as youth and as missionaries How guilt and shame from transgressions as a youth impacted Sean's mission and outlook on life Sean and Crystal's difficult experiences with the repentance process affected their early marriage How discovering a calling Sean had received was uninspired by his priesthood leader greatly shook his faith How Crystal's experience with Mormon Stories helped her be more empathetic towards Sean's struggles with his faith and church leadership How leaving the LDS Church has caused a new awakening in their marriage and family as they reevaluate their relationship, their parenting, and their new moral code for living ...and so much more.  

We're excited to finally bring on Bryce Blankenagel of the Naked Mormonism Podcast to Mormon Stories! His preparation, thorough research, and absolute brilliance are on display as Bryce gives us the context surrounding the Solomon Spaulding Manuscript Theory of The Book of Mormon—even including some of the apologetic arguments against the theory. Bryce concludes the interview with his personal take on the veracity of the theory. Tune in!

We're excited to finally bring on Bryce Blankenagel of the Naked Mormonism Podcast to Mormon Stories! His preparation, thorough research, and absolute brilliance are on display as Bryce gives us the context surrounding the Solomon Spaulding Manuscript Theory of The Book of Mormon—even including some of the apologetic arguments against the theory. Bryce concludes the interview with his personal take on the veracity of the theory. Tune in!

John provides a monologue, giving commentary on the excommunication of the Young family and what it means for questioning Mormons in the modern Church