1828: Mormon Prepper Life - Kim (Parrett) and Josh Coffin Pt 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 196 minutes
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Summary
Kim's upbringing was fraught with fear, driven by intense preparations for the Second Coming. Themes of spiritual scrupulosity and the ominous echoes of evil spirits were deeply ingrained. Her father's prepper mindset, financial exploitation, and extreme beliefs added to the tumult. Josh's narrative exposes the suffocating expectations of righteousness and conditional love, culminating in his distressing mission experience and subsequent social rejection.
This candid conversation delves into the challenges and repercussions of rigid Mormon ideology, underscoring the profound impacts on individuals and families. The gripping insights shared here provide a raw and thought-provoking glimpse into the complex realities faced by many within the Mormon community.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I am one of your |
| 0:05.0 | hosts for today, John Delin. It is October 18th, 2023 and I am here with my partner in Truth and Righteousness. |
| 0:15.0 | Margie, hey, Margie, how's it going? |
| 0:17.0 | It's going really well. |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:19.0 | We are this week and last week by the time this is released we are in the middle of covering |
| 0:26.4 | basically a bunch of stories and reporting tied to this book, Visions of Glory, |
| 0:33.0 | this book Visions of Glory |
| 0:35.0 | is penned by a man named John Pontius who has passed away. |
| 0:39.0 | He is dictating or transcribing some near death experiences of a man in the book called Spencer, |
| 0:49.2 | and that's a pseudonym, but the actual name of the man who is behind Spencer in this near-death experience book |
| 0:57.8 | is Tom Harrison. Tom Harrison is a very well-known therapist along the Wasatch Front. |
| 1:03.6 | And the reason why I'm talking about all this, why we're talking about all this, including |
| 1:07.8 | the Visions of Glory Book, is because we have discovered that Tom Harrison appears to be kind of like the Wizard of Oz, |
| 1:15.6 | kind of like the spiritual leader or the mentor for Julie Rowe, for Ted Debel and Lori Valo. |
| 1:23.0 | Of course the murders that you all know about from that. |
| 1:26.6 | But also Jody Hildebrand and Connections. |
| 1:29.2 | And finally, the eight passengers Ruby Frankie stuff and Tim Ballard and oh you are. What do all |
| 1:36.9 | those different tragic and horrendous stories have in common? They have their roots in having everyone both read this book, |
| 1:46.4 | visions of glory, about end time second coming, I call it Mormon, |
| 1:51.6 | neo-fundamentalism, but also preparism. |
| 1:54.8 | And most are all of the people that I just mentioned have had direct interactions with and or |
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