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Corey Buse

Former Mormon who grew up in 1990s Utah; guest on the Post Mormon Peace podcast sharing his story of faith deconstruction after serving an LDS mission in New Jersey.

Sep 29, 2026

JordanHOST
6:24
What were the things in your marriage or personal life that led to you to start to question things?
6:30
Yeah, so like New York, moving to New York was a big change.
6:36
You know, it was really the first time to have kind of the independence of like making my own decisions, even outside of, you know, becoming an adult, going on a mission, coming home from the mission.
6:52
Like there's still so much culture and surroundings going on in my life that, Um, like even if I was questioning things or had doubts about things, it was, it was really easy to not think more about it at all.
7:09
Just have a second thought at all.
7:12
Um, and so like New York, uh, was very eyeopening still in a lot of ways.
7:18
Like, yes, the mission was very similar, you know, like going, going to church in New Jersey is very similar to New York.

43 MINS LATER

JordanHOST
50:35
more.
JordanHOST
42:45
That's what my sit-ups were.
42:47
Yeah, and that was just one example of many of how the day was structured of very much like a math equation type thing of what's the input? Okay, here's the exact output.
43:00
There's not really much room for interpretation.
43:03
You just follow.
43:05
the rules, how they're written.
43:06
And like, that's what makes you a successful missionary.
43:10
And so like I, I did that and kind of thrived on that environment because that's what I'd grown up in.

6 MINS LATER

JordanHOST
49:15
You like Corey Buse was too rigid.

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