Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I am your host John

DeLin. It is May 16th, 2022 and we are super excited for today's episode. A dear friend

of mine and someone who has appeared on Mormon Stories in the past several times. Anthony

Miller is going to be joining us today. You'll be hearing his story in his TED Talk. We'll

also be having him here on the episode. But if I can just share what Anthony means to me,

I first remember meeting Anthony at a Sunstone workshop, Faith Crisis Workshop that I held.

I think we decided that the year was 2016. So this would have been a year after I was actually

communicated. I think Gina Colvin and Thomas McConkey were there in the workshop. And this wonderful

thoughtful, slightly scared, tremoring, baldest kind of, but also red-headed man came to my workshop.

And I was immediately struck with how thoughtful he was with how kind he was. And it was so great

to have him as part of the workshop. And from there, I have just seen Anthony become kind of a real

force and a real presence within Mormonism. He became a mentor to so many people in Faith Crisis.

He ended up joining the thoughtful faith Facebook group. He may have even joined that from before,

which now I think is called Waters of Mormon. But eventually, I think Lindsay Hansen Park even

recruited him to kind of do onboarding kind of training sessions for Mormons who are fresh in

Faith Crisis. That's not to mention how many people he's individually mentored in their Mormon

Faith Crisis over the years. He's blogged a lot and he's been on several Mormon stories podcast

episodes. He's been on Bill Reels Mormon discussions podcast several times if I'm recalling

correctly. But most importantly, he is just by far one of the most thoughtful, sensitive,

kind and compassionate voices we have in progressive and post-mormonism. And so I was, of course,

thrilled when I learned that Anthony Miller was invited or was accepted to give a TED talk.

I should also add that Anthony will be hearing this in the TED talk, but Anthony also has been a

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