1824: The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism w/ Dr. Sara Patterson
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 156 minutes
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Summary
Book Club is back with Rebecca Bibliotheca! Joining her and John Dehlin is Dr. Sarah Patterson as she introduces us to her book on the “September Six”, a group of scholars and feminists excommunicated from the LDS Church in September 1993.
The interview examines the impact of excommunications, the power of the Church's stance on purity, and the consequences for members. Sarah also highlights the importance of remembering those who paved the way for open conversations and change within the Church.
The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism by Sara Patterson
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host for today John |
| 0:06.3 | Delin. It is October 4th, 2023 and today we are so incredibly excited to be covering a new book |
| 0:15.7 | by signature books that has been released and is now being talked about all throughout the Mormon |
| 0:22.1 | circles. The book is called the September 6th and the struggle for the soul of Mormonism by |
| 0:27.7 | Dr. Sarah M. Patterson for those who don't know what the September 6th is in September of 1993 when |
| 0:37.0 | I was a senior BYU six Mormon intellectuals were either actually communicated or disfellowshipped |
| 0:44.4 | kind of all in the same month and I may be getting details wrong but it was for publishing and |
| 0:49.8 | discussing issues like feminism and other sorts of things that the brethren didn't like and it was |
| 0:56.8 | a really formative moment for me but it was more importantly a really big moment in Mormonism |
| 1:04.4 | and especially in Mormon studies Mormon scholarship and Mormon culture Mormon intellectual culture |
| 1:10.1 | I would say and you've probably heard me discuss the September 6th hundreds of times on |
| 1:16.3 | Mormon Stories podcast we've interviewed Paul Tuscano one of the September 6th and D. Michael |
| 1:22.0 | Quinn a few times and also Margaret Tuscano who is considered to be by some to be a part of this |
| 1:29.4 | group of scholars who was also punished and Brett McCaff to again someone who was kind of grouped |
| 1:36.6 | in this purge is something like to call it that happened let's just say between 1992 and 1994 |
| 1:42.8 | ish but recently after the amazing Barbara Brown took over signature books and she was working |
| 1:51.8 | on some amazing books related to D. Michael Quinn including a new biography that's coming out |
| 1:58.8 | a memoir that's coming out I don't know I should know the diversity of memoir in a biography but |
| 2:03.5 | she realized that we needed a good book on the September 6th and she wanted someone who could take |
| 2:09.9 | a journalistic approach but who is an academic and who could write it in a year less and she turned |
| 2:17.4 | to you Sarah Patterson and we are just delighted to have you on Mormon Stories podcast thank you |
| 2:24.0 | for having me okay so I'm going to guess that a lot of my audience maybe this is the first time |
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