1266: The Excommunication of John Dehlin Pt. 3 - Bishop Brian Hunt (1/26/2014)
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
February 2020 marks the 5 year anniversary of my excommunication from the Mormon church.
In a desire to protect myself against the possibility of slander or misinformation from the church or its apologists (as was experienced by former church members such as Fawn Brodie, Simon Southerton, and Kate Kelly during their disciplinary councils), I recorded all of the interviews I had with my bishops (James Stephenson and Brian Hunt) and stake presidents (Mark Jensen and Bryan King) leading up to my disciplinary council/excommunication.
As I have been opposed to Mormon Disciplinary Councils from my childhood on, it was always my intention to publish these interviews as a matter of public record - but I decided to hold off on publishing them for several years.
In light of the recent changes made to the Mormon church's disciplinary council process, and on the 5th anniversary of my excommunication, I am publishing them now.
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| 0:36.5 | So, mid 2012, 2013, 2014, we're super active. |
| 0:51.1 | Back in the day or two, sorry, seriously super active. |
| 0:53.7 | We were attending, we were serving as we could and our kids were all active. |
| 0:59.6 | Things, and I stopped meeting with President Jensen at some point. |
| 1:06.3 | So several things happened in the meantime that were kind of important. |
| 1:14.0 | During this time, I interviewed Tom Phillips, the former State President from the United |
| 1:22.2 | Kingdom who it had a second anointing. |
| 1:26.0 | He talked a lot about his unpleasant interactions with Elder Holland. |
| 1:30.0 | That struck me. |
| 1:35.5 | Hans Mattsin, you know, in 2013, I interviewed him on warmestories and he came out in the |
| 1:41.4 | New York Times and that really opened up the discussion about faith crises. |
| 1:46.7 | That was an important thing that was going on. |
| 1:51.8 | What was kind of really troubling was in October of 2013, Elder Dalin H. Oaks gave a talk called No Other Gods. |
| 2:01.8 | It was just a really disturbing talk. |
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