The Life of a Mormon Seminary Teacher - Marc Oslund Pt. 2 - Mormon Stories 1424

Описание: Join us today as we continue with part two of our three-part interview with former baseball player and LDS seminary teacher, Marc Oslund. Fascinating for so many reasons, I believe this is one of the most important Mormon Stories Podcast episodes I've ever released.

Marc was a heavily recruited high school baseball and football player in the L.A., California area.
He converted to the Mormon church as a teen.
He was drafted to the baseball Major Leagues three different times, and turned down those offers to go on an LDS mission and to BYU.
He was an all-American baseball player at BYU.
He served an LDS mission where he was often racked with guilt and shame - almost sent home for it.
When his baseball career ended (due to post-mission injuries), he became a Mormon CES seminary teacher, and served from around 2013 to 2019 - while the Mormon church was trying to become more open/honest about its history, and deal with public activists like Kate Kelly, myself, Sam Young, Jeremy Runnells, etc.
Even though he constantly had doubts/questions/concerns, his position as a seminary teacher caused major rifts in his marriage when his wife expressed occasional doubts, specifically about the Mormon temple ceremony.
Marc became a liberal/progressive/Givens Mormon while a seminary teacher - but was punished by CES for his progressive stances.
Marc ultimately lost his orthodox Mormon faith as a seminary teacher, and was pressured to quit his job.

In part 2 of his story, we will hear about Marc's experience working for the Church Educational System as a seminary teacher, his attempts to be open with students about church doctrines, and why he eventually began to question the leadership of the LDS church - all while working within the CES program.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Overview of Part 1
00:08:25 - Marc begins to consider teaching seminary
00:16:40 - First student teaching jobs
00:23:38 - Ecclesiastical endorsement meeting with Elder Baxter
00:35:20 - Marc is offered a seminary teaching job in Utah Valley
00:44:20 - Curriculum & training
00:59:45 - Trying to answer questions from students
01:17:56 - Excommunication of John Dehlin
01:28:34 - Disputes with other seminary teachers & principal
01:43:05 - 2015 LGBT+ Exclusion Policy
01:50:55 - Rachel stops going to the temple
02:00:48 - Disciplinary Letter #1
02:29:10 - Fertility issues cause Marc and Rachel to question God
02:45:09 - Marc’s brother goes on a mission
02:51:20 - “The edge of the inside” -Richard Rohr
02:59:33 - Marc’s colleague confesses he reported him to the principal out of jealousy
03:05:55 - Young-adult membership retention is dropping rapidly
03:16:40 - Elder Bednar story
03:35:15 - 2017/18 - CES employee training
03:44:12 - Marc’s faith in 2018 & beginning to question church leadership
03:50:07 - The church “enforcing boundaries with fear”
03:55:33 - “Mormon” name change
04:03:44 - Marc gets in trouble for playing an episode of “Queer Eye” for his class
04:13:53 - Pt. 2 conclusion

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