In this episode, John Dehlin, Margi Weber Dehlin, and Natasha Helfer Parker discuss the importance of having gratitude for, and making peace with our Mormon past.

In this episode, Dr. John Dehlin, Margi Dehlin, and Natasha Helfer Parker discuss the common stereotypes regarding Mormons who have a faith crisis. These stereotypes include:

1) That they were offended.
2) That they were weak and/or never really had a testimony.
3) That they wanted to sin
4) That they were exposed to anti-Mormon literature, podcasts, or individuals.

In this episode of Mormon Faith Crisis podcast, Dr. John Dehlin and Margi Weber Dehlin and Natasha Helfer Parker discuss the most common causes of a Mormon Faith Crisis. In Part 1 of this episode we cover:

• People for whom the church never really resonated, or ceased to resonate.
• Exposure to awesome non-Mormons
• People who sometimes don’t fit within Mormon culture, including feminists, LGBTQ individuals, intellectuals, people of color, millennials, singles, divorced, those married to non-members, and political liberals.

In this episode of Mormon Faith Crisis podcast, Dr. John Dehlin and Margi Weber Dehlin and Natasha Helfer Parker discuss the most common causes of a Mormon Faith Crisis. In Part 1 of this episode we cover:

• Those who develop sympathies for a discriminated minority group, usually close friend or family member
• Those who experienced some sort of abuse in a church context.
• Those who were exposed to historical or doctrinal problems that challenge the church’s truth claims.

We also cover several other factors that can impact a faith crisis including:
1) One's placement within Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
2) Family factors, including parents/spouse/children in church
3) Multi-generational Mormon heritage
4) Social factors including friends/community
5) Personality factors
6) Age
7) Financial (Job dependent on church or church community)
8) Fear/conditioning

• Disappointing parents and extended family
• Navigating a marriage built on Mormonism
• Coming out to family, friends, co-workers, and the world
• Feeling like a disappointment to loved ones, our ward
• Navigating a mixed-faith marriage/family
• Renegotiating/rebuilding a marriage after a faith crisis.
  

On today’s The Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis podcast we will answer the question, “What are the most difficult aspects of a Mormon Faith Crisis?” In part two of this episode, we will discuss the following:

• Loss of friends and community.
• Communicating with ward/stake/church leaders and members.
  
• Dealing with Betrayal and Anger.
• Loss of spirituality.
• Loss of identity.
• Loss of meaning/purpose.
• Having to rebuild and renegotiate morality.
• Dealing with a mid-life crisis.
• Loss of security regarding death and the afterlife.
• Feelings of chaos and instability

In this two-part episode of the Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis, Dr. John Dehlin & Margi Weber Dehlin and Natasha Helfer Parker take a deeper look at how religious conversion and de-conversion happen, and explore how that understanding can be useful in re-building a post-orthodoxy life, and in communicating with orthodox believing family and friends.

In this two-part episode of the Gift of the Mormon Faith Crisis, Dr. John Dehlin & Margi Weber Dehlin and Natasha Helfer Parker take a deeper look at how religious conversion and de-conversion happen, and explore how that understanding can be useful in re-building a post-orthodoxy life, and in communicating with orthodox believing family and friends.