So those of you to make sure you're in the place you want to be, this is the Sunstone

that's imposing in Seattle, this is not your intent to be at Sunstone.

You may want, yeah welcome anyway, absolutely, you're always welcome.

My name is John Delin, I'm from Logan, Utah and they tell me that I'm the executive director

of Sunstone, I was voted, I ended up position in August, I guess, for some time close

thereabouts.

I actually spent seven years here in Seattle living in Pohami when I worked for Microsoft,

so it's fun to be back and this is my second time in Sunstone, Seattle.

My interest in Mormon studies began as I was leaving Seattle so I didn't even know

that since Sunstone was going on during the seven years I lived here.

How many of you have been here to this symposium before, and how many of you are new first

timers?

Okay, well you're all very welcome, thank you for coming.

I want to begin with a few disclaimers, implicit in the question tonight is that some people

may want to stay, but I just want to make it clear that I don't want to make the assumption

that staying is right for everyone.

I get a lot of heat for that as I've given the speech a few times, because there are people

who just say that church doesn't work for them and they want to feel like they're being

judged for their decisions that leave, and so that's not what this is all about.

This is just about, most importantly, what I found with the creator of 400 people at

council over the past few years is that there are some people who feel trapped and they

don't have a vocabulary and they don't know of options available to them when they hit

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