1821: Letter to My Mormon Child - Amy Lloyd Pt. 3
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Amy Lloyd condenses the CES Letter for teens, emphasizing the importance of informed consent in matters of faith. She delves into the Book of Mormon's origins, translation, and its value despite historical concerns and addresses foundational topics such as the First Vision, Book of Abraham, polygamy, and polyandry, shedding light on critical issues within the Church's history. This thoughtful discussion serves as a valuable resource for those navigating complex issues 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 John |
| 0:03.6 | Delin. It's August 31st, 2023. And today we have back on Mormon Stories, Amy Lloyd. Hey, |
| 0:09.8 | Amy. Hello. Good morning. Just to give you a little background, we just did a couple |
| 0:13.6 | episodes of Amy. She is a formerly Mormon mom who lives in the South. And she basically |
| 0:23.0 | long story short had a Mormon marriage, had a couple kids and then ended up divorcing |
| 0:29.8 | from her first husband. And he remained faithful and she no longer believed in the church |
| 0:37.0 | right before and then after the divorce. And we did a couple episodes just talking about |
| 0:43.1 | beautiful episodes, talking about how she didn't have all the information growing up about |
| 0:49.2 | the church that maybe would have been helpful to her and how maybe that led to her silencing |
| 0:54.4 | her own voice and maybe making decisions throughout her life that she would have made very |
| 0:59.7 | differently if she had had all the information. And knowing that her children were still going |
| 1:05.0 | to be associated with the Mormon church on some level because their dad, you know, remained |
| 1:10.6 | and remains a believer, she wanted to figure out a way to make sure that they could have |
| 1:17.1 | the informed consent that she didn't so that they could not not with the intent of |
| 1:24.5 | making decisions for them because that defeats the whole purpose of learning to listen to |
| 1:28.9 | your inner voice. But she did want to do what she could to make sure that her kids and specifically |
| 1:36.1 | her son had the informed consent that he needed, you know, in his teen years to help him decide |
| 1:43.3 | with all the information, whether he wanted to serve a mission, a Mormon mission, whether |
| 1:48.0 | he wanted to go to BYU, get married in the temple and all that. And so she wrote this lovely |
| 1:54.5 | condensed version of the CES letter. And now let me just explain that for those of you don't know. |
| 2:00.2 | Years and years ago, a dear friend of mine, Jeremy Reynolds, had a Mormon faith crisis and he wrote |
| 2:06.5 | a letter to a CES director who is a church educator within the Mormon church |
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