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I Lost My Faith at BYU and Had to Rebuild My Entire Identity — My Brother's Story of Disassociating With the LDS Church with Ryan Liston
In this episode, I sit down with my little brother Ryan Liston to talk about his journey of leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We were both raised in traditional Latter-day Saint households, and while I'm still an active member, Ryan's path took him in a different direction. He shares his beautiful, hard, and honest story of how he went from being the "perfect" Mormon kid—seminary president, never missed scripture reading, went a whole year without listening to secular music—to questioning everything he believed.
Ryan talks about how his faith crisis started at BYU…
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