Why Mormon Women Are Leaving the Church - Jared Halverson Meltdown | Ep. 2006

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 187 minutes

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Summary

On March 12, 2025, Church educator and BYU professor Jared Halverson released an Instagram short where he stated: “One of the statistics that has worried me the most of late, comes from a survey that was done in 2023 and it’s suggesting that for the first time that I can think of, more women are leaving religion than men are.” Is this true? Why are more women leaving Mormonism than men are? Join us today as we gather with Katie Rich (author of Fifty Years of Exponent II), Amy McPhie Allebest (of the Breaking Down Patriarchy YouTube channel), and Abby Maxwell Hansen (who was threatened with excommunication for her profile on Ordain Women in 2013 and an Exponent II blogger since 2019), as well as writer and columnist Jana Riess to discuss this growing phenomenon.Jared Halverson is an associate professor of Ancient Scriptures and served for over 20 years in the Church Education System. Halverson earned his BA in History and MA in Religious Education. He has been a featured speaker in devotionals as well as in academic settings. He is the host of the YouTube channel and podcast titled “Unshaken.”You can view Jared Halverson’s original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevsIrw1nqsShow Notes: https://www.mormonstories.org/why-are-women-leaving-the-mormon-church/

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast.
0:03.7	I'm your host for today, John DeLinn.
0:05.1	It's April 1st, 2025, but we're not fooling.
0:09.2	We're not fooling today.
0:10.7	We are here to talk about a recent kerfuffle, I'll call it, that erupted on the Mormon
0:17.2	and the ex-Mormon Internet, where a church educator, Jared Halverson,
0:23.6	posted a short video, hoping to encourage Mormon women to not give up the faith and to stay strong,
0:33.9	noting that he had discovered recently a trend towards Mormon women disaffiliating for Mormonism at a higher rate than men.
0:45.4	And the Mormon Internet again blew up as a result of the video he posted and the comments.
0:53.0	We're going to be covering all of it today. We're going to be covering all of it today.
0:55.7	We're going to be covering Jared's, Jared Haverson's original video, the response to it.
1:02.1	We're going to be covering the fact that he apologized.
1:05.9	And then we're going to even be responding to his apology.
1:11.6	And then also we're going to have Jana Reese later on in the show to share some data with us that she has been digging into about why Mormon women are losing faith and or leaving Mormonism.
1:27.3	And if we have time at the end,
1:28.5	we're even going to talk about recent changes in the Mormon church where the garments for
1:36.0	Mormon women have been, by many accounts, improved. So we've got so much to cover today.
1:44.0	And two of the three faces that we have in
1:47.7	studio are going to be very familiar to you. So let me just go ahead and introduce the amazing
1:53.4	panelists we have today. We have back in studio, Amy McPhee Allabest from Breaking Down Patriarchy.
2:00.6	Hey, Amy.
2:01.1	Hey, great to be here.
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