My Mormon Truth Crisis as an Attorney - Justin Sweeney | Ep. 1988

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 182 minutes

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In today's episode, John sits down for a conversation with immigration attorney, Justin Sweeney. Justin grew up LDS in Mesa, AZ, served a mission in Argentina, and has served in many leadership positions within the church. He was even serving in his branch presidency up until the end of 2024. Justin discusses how he felt overworked in his church callings, questioning polygamy and masonry, and his journey of discovering the true history of the church. ___________________ At Mormon Stories we explore, celebrate, and challenge Mormon culture through in-depth stories told by members and former members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as scholars, authors, LDS apologists, and other professionals. Our overall mission is to: 1. Facilitate informed consent amongst LDS Church members, investigators, and non-members regarding Mormon history, doctrine, and theology 2. Support Mormons (and members of other high-demand religions) who are experiencing a religious faith crisis 3. Promote healing, growth and community for those who choose to leave the LDS Church or other high demand religions 🤝Help us continue to deliver quality content by becoming a donor today One-time or recurring donations: https://donorbox.org/mormon-stories?default_interval=m Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mormonstories Venmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/mormonstories Paypal: https://paypal.me/mormonstories Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx6OgmoqJbOVRq-Lv1P7SzA/join Our Platforms: 🌐Mormon Stories Blog: https://www.mormonstories.org/episodes 🎙️Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mormonstories ✳️Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4sDzk7dRjODTSEqzZKZJzk?si=148b0efc1ccc4404&nd=1 🍎Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mormon-stories-lds/id312094772 🖼️Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mormstories 📱TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mormonstoriespodcast 🎮Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kuX5p6yyjF Contact us: 📧 [email protected] 📬PO Box 171085, Salt Lake City, UT 84117

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon stories podcast.
0:03.8	I'm your host, John DeLinn. It's January 29th, 2025. Happy New Year.
0:08.4	And today, the title that we have for this episode is My Mormon Truth Crisis,
0:17.2	how truth began to challenge my faith and specifically the faith of a former state presidency member,
0:28.3	state high councilman, you know, sort of a higher level leader in the Mormon church.
0:34.6	He is also an immigration attorney in the Fresno area. And his name is Justin
0:41.6	Sweeney. Hey, Justin. Welcome to Warmer Stories Podcast. Hey, John. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming
0:46.3	all this way. Yep. It was good travels. Cold here in Utah, but beautiful. Yeah, a little bit colder
0:51.9	in California. Yeah. So did I get anything wrong with the introduction?
0:57.0	Nope.
0:58.0	I'm here asking questions like I've been doing for the last 18 months.
1:02.0	And you don't love the, a lot of people, a lot of ex-Mormons or questioning Mormons
1:08.0	don't like the faith crisis sort of label.
1:11.6	Is that, are you, do you kind of share that?
1:13.6	Yeah, so that comes from, I mean, even the Book of Mormon in Alma 3221,
1:20.6	it says that faith is a hope for things which are not seen, which are true.
1:24.6	And so we can only have faith in things that are true.
1:26.6	So as we face the
1:28.2	truth, our faith shouldn't change, or if it does, then that thing might not be necessarily true.
1:34.4	Yeah. So you, uh, you were here, we're here today we're going to be talking about a truth crisis,
1:40.7	not a faith crisis. Yes. Yeah. And, um, and I guess if there are some other themes, it's going to be, you said something about
1:49.4	secondary issues.
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