Episode Details

Join us this Wednesday at noon as Luna Corbden, Marc Oslund, Gerardo, and John discuss the Mormon Church's efforts to use the psychological theory of inoculation to pre-expose the youth to weakened versions of the troubling history through an updated CES and Sunday School curriculum. 

"... Please, before you send them into the world, inoculate your students by providing faithful, thoughtful, and accurate interpretation of gospel doctrine, the scriptures, our history, and those topics that are sometimes misunderstood.

The effort for gospel transparency and spiritual inoculation through a thoughtful study of doctrine and history, coupled with a burning testimony, is the best antidote we have to help students avoid and/or deal with questions, doubt, or faith crises they may face in this information age."

M. Russell Ballard, February 26, 2016

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/broadcasts/article/evening-with-a-general-authority/2016/02/the-opportunities-and-responsibilities-of-ces-teachers-in-the-21st-century?lang=eng

Show Notes:

• Recovering Agency: Lifting the Veil of Mormon Mind Control by Luna Lindsey Corbden
• "Examining Mormon Mind Control" with Luna Lindsey Corbden on Mormon Stories 
• Mormon Stories interview with Marc Oslund 
• M. Russell Ballard's February 2016 CES Employees Devotional encouraging "inoculation" 
• "Sister to Sister," 2019 BYU Women's Conference 
• "Youth Need 'Inoculation' Against the World," by Melissa Merrill, Ensign, 2004 
• "Will You Engage in the Wrestle?" a 2016 devotional by Sheri Dew at BYU-Idaho

  Listen Now