Beloved podcaster Radio Free Mormon shares his reflections with John and Gerardo on how the transition from Mormon apologist to a non-believer and critic of the LDS Church.
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Show notes:
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Mormon Stories episode featuring Radio Free Mormon:
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Mormon Stories episode featuring Gerardo Sumano:
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Mormon Stories episode featuring Bart Ehrman
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RFM's interview with Kerry Shirts
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Bill Moyers' series Genesis: A Living Conversation
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Bart Ehrman's New Testament course
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Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri: An Egyptian Endowment by Hugh Nibley
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The Book of Mormon on Trial by Andrew Knaupp and J. Milton Rich
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Sustaining and Defending the Faith by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet
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Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet
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Louis Midgley's review of Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet in the journal Review of Books on the Book of Mormon
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Alma 34:34, with surrounding textual context
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Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It Into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
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The Lost Books of the Bible: Being All the Gospels, Epistles and Other Pieces Now Extant Attributed in the First Four Centuries to Jesus Christ by Solomon J. Schepps
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Timecodes:
00:00:00 Introduction and opening remarks
00:09:11 Why Mormon lesson materials are so bland and repetitive
00:19:24 How RFM initially became an LDS apologist
00:33:17 Learning to question the correlated answers
00:44:10 Apologetics provided an acceptable way to seek more information
00:50:35 Personal interaction with the Scriptures and attempts to get published
01:25:25 Believes he's learning things the brethren already know, but that aren't taught to the general membership
01:50:08 Moving on to information from academic disciplines and sources outside Mormonism
02:00:43 Music and dance enlivened the gospel---but made Church-approved material feel even duller
02:12:19 Scripture study within the Church is not intended to ever teach anything new
02:23:56 Uncovering his own biases while studying Christianity from non-LDS sources
02:59:11 Expanding his reading material to include non-religious classical literature
03:33:55 Closing remarks
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