1384: How Mormon Stories Podcast Helped Our Family Heal

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In a recent video released by paid actors supported by FAIRMormon and the More Good Foundation, Kwaku El, Brad Witbeck, and Cardon Ellis make the claim that I and Mormon Stories (and Jeremy Runnells) are intentionally "homewrecking for profit" with the work we do.

In an attempt to combat this hurtful claim, I reached out to our amazing Mormon Stories Listeners, requesting your help by sharing if/how Mormon Stories Podcast has helped your family. I have been deeply honored and humbled by the overwhelming support we have received, and would like to personally thank each one of you that were brave enough to share your own “Mormon Story” with me.

Mormon Stories podcast seeks to understand, explore, challenge, and improve the Mormon experience through stories, and has never had the intention of harming families in any way. In fact, we strive to support and mend family relationships by promoting healthy communication skills and unconditional love.

The primary objectives of Mormon Stories podcast include:

Providing support to Mormons who are transitioning away from either orthodox Mormonism, or from Mormonism altogether, with a particular emphasis on:
- Minimizing the anxiety, depression, and occasional suicidality that can accompany a transition away from religious orthodoxy.
- Reducing the number of unnecessary divorces attributable to Mormon faith crises.
- Creating a community of support for liberal/progressive and post-Mormons.
Building greater awareness regarding accurate LDS/Mormon church history, doctrine, and theology – so that both active, believing Mormons and investigators of the church can make informed decisions regarding their investment in, and engagement with the church.
Identifying opportunities for growth/improvement within the LDS church, and within broader Mormon culture.

Mormon Stories Podcast by no means benefits from the destruction of families, and we are saddened to see our community mis-represented in this way. It is my hope that the personal accounts represented in this video will be evidence of how Mormon Stories has actually benefited the lives of our listeners, and lay to rest the claim that Jeremy Runnells and myself have ever participated in “homewrecking for profit.”

Thank you.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm John DeLin of Mormon Stories podcast about 20 years ago after being raised as a Mormon
0:06.2	Living my entire life as a devout orthodox faithful Mormon. I had a faith crisis
0:10.5	It was so personally devastating to me and to my family and to those around me and to so many friends that in
0:17.8	2005 15 years ago I started a podcast called Mormon Stories with the intent of helping to prevent anxiety and depression
0:25.1	to prevent suicides and prevent unnecessary divorce and family division due to issues related to Mormonism
0:32.9	I've been doing that podcast for about 15 years. I got a PhD in clinical and counseling psychology along the way
0:39.4	So that I could help as many people as possible prevent as much depression and sadness and anxiety and
0:45.4	Suicide and unnecessary divorce as I possibly could over the years
0:49.8	I've received thousands and thousands of emails and messages from listeners saying that I've helped them and I've helped
0:55.1	their families and it's been incredibly rewarding
0:58.5	Unfortunately recently an apologetic hate group sponsored by the Mormon Church directly and indirectly financed by the Mormon Church
1:06.6	through organizations like the Morgan Foundation and Fair Mormon
1:10.9	sponsored by people like Scott Gordon and John Lynch
1:14.1	hired these actors guys like Quay-Coo L, Carden Ellis and Brad Whitbeck to launch a smear campaign against me and a dear friend named Jeremy
1:24.1	author of a letter called letter to a CES director wherein they claim that Jeremy Rennels and I
1:31.5	Intentionally home wreck for profit and that that's our intention for what we do
1:36.9	Let me go ahead and play that clip really quick so you can hear the allegations
1:40.9	When you intellectually dishonestly for self-aggrandizement or self-enrichment
1:45.7	Create materials meant to basically break up families
1:49.3	When you go home wrecking for profit, I call that evil all right, and that's what
1:56.6	John Delin and Jeremy do is they home wreck for profit. There's no other way of putting it in my mind, okay?
2:04.1	So what I did is I put a call out to my listeners and my viewers and I basically just asked if
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