When Your Mormon Children Stop Believing - Nan & Rod Osborne Pt. 2 | Ep 1762

The transmission of Mormon faith from one generation to the next is often treated as a mechanical process. Teach the scriptures, hold family home evening, send them on missions, and the belief should hold. Nan and Rod Osborne followed this manual precisely for decades. Then their children stopped believing anyway, triggering a family collapse that exposed the fragility of orthodox Mormon identity and the steep psychological cost of questioning.

Rod Osborne spent nearly three decades in the FBI, including years as a SWAT team sniper and battering ram operator. Nan stitched CTR towels for grandchildren and never missed family prayer. They were the model Mormon family until the cracks appeared. Their story, detailed in Mormon Stories Podcast episode 1762, traces how