38: Music and the Spoken Word with Dan Bryant

Thanks for sharing this interview. I really appreciated learning more about how the church does business: as a business, it seems pretty nice (for the real employees, not the volunteers, especially distant volunteers who never make it into the one of the Utah companies). I know for myself that I would go back to work at BYU in a heartbeat if I could do it as an apostate (not that I would teach apostasy as a necessary part of my academic curriculum, but the loyalty requirement that the church has is more than I can meet).

Compared to most Voices, I found this one to be much less about faith disparities and “the journey” – the parts that makes me so interested in listening.

Dan sounds like a really nice Utah-guy, even though he didn’t grow up there. Pretty weird. I guess Mormonism breeds the same type of person regardless of where in the U.S. they grow up? Anyways, a somewhat refreshing change to the mix, this was. This episode’s post photo should have included Dan with his Justin Beiber hair, and one of his cubicle with the Star Wars stuff. Would have been a nice variation, rather than churchy-style all the way. (Though the photos are very good quality, kudos to the photographer!)