497: Brent Metcalfe Part 3 -- After the Hofmann bombings and his excommunication
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2014
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In the highly anticipated follow up to our first interview, Brent Metcalfe continues his story.
- In Part 3, Brent discusses the aftermath of the Hofmann murders, including the trial and Hoffman's eventual plea deal. He also discusses the events leading up to, and including, his excommunication.
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| 0:54.7 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John |
| 0:59.0 | Delin. It is September 11th, 2014 and I have with me the wonderful and insightful |
| 1:07.7 | Brent Metcalfe. Those of you who tuned in previously will know that I've already |
| 1:15.0 | done a few segments with Brent episodes 4.93 and 4.94. Brent Metcalfe is |
| 1:24.1 | fascinating and important for so many reasons but in episodes 1 and 2 of my |
| 1:32.4 | interview with Brent we talked about his early years in the church, his |
| 1:35.4 | mission experience, his participation in the Seventh East Press and later as a |
| 1:43.3 | security guard for the LDS church. His participation early on in Mormon |
| 1:49.3 | scholarship and apologetics that ultimately actually got him fired as a |
| 1:54.1 | security guard from the church. And then we talked about how he started working |
| 2:00.7 | with Steve Christensen who was the son of Matt Christensen, Mr. Mack and an |
| 2:07.3 | important researcher in Mormon Studies back in the 80s and how he eventually met |
| 2:12.7 | Mark Hoffman ended up collaborating some with Mark and being close friends with |
| 2:17.5 | Mark Hoffman which of course preceded the famous Salamander letter, the |
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