Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John Delin. It is May 5th

2022 and I am over the moon super excited for today's episode

We have in studio the wonderful the brilliant the insightful Jen hey Jen

I was waiting for you to go

Hi everybody. Yeah, thanks for joining us

You're welcome and we're doing something kind of new and exciting today on the podcast

So normally we interview you know progressive and post Mormons that happen to be in the Salt Lake City area

Occasionally we do remote interviews over the internet with people they can't join us in Salt Lake and

Occasionally we interview people who were raised in other faith traditions like

Scientology or Joe's witnesses or you know Orthodox Judaism and those have been some of my favorite episodes like Chris Shelton Lloyd Evans

You know so many others that I'm gonna forget to mention but

one area of high-demand religion that we've never really explored on Mormon stories is evangelical Christianity and

That's been something that's been a long time coming and

Recently my dear friend Steve Kovalenko reached out to me and told me about this amazing podcast called mega

That is kind of a religious satire comedy podcast that is led by a woman named

Lauren. Sorry Holly Lauren and so

Stephen was kind enough to hook me up with Holly and her husband and we got to know them a little bit and

We decided to do something that we don't do we flew

Holly to Salt Lake City

Gen and I picked her up at the airport and we are going to be covering

Kind of like you know a faith journey of someone who was kind of born and raised into evangelical Christianity and then has left it

And is a comedian now a brilliant funny insightful comedian who also runs a podcast and

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