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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast.

I'm your host, John DeLin.

I'm very excited to have a new guest with me today.

Before I launch into introducing my guest and talking about him,

I want to provide just a little bit of a disclaimer generally and then dive in.

Recently, I've been receiving a lot of feedback from my listeners

who are expressing frustration.

It's usually from the more believing side of my listenership.

And the sentiment that they've been expressing to me is basically that,

you know, what they've always enjoyed about Mormon Stories is that it is open and respectful

of all points of view, affirming of belief or supportive of belief and not denigrating,

but also supporting disbelief and just wanting to hear all sides.

And some of the feedback I've received lately is that people feel like Mormon Stories

has dwindled a bit into being a little bit more critical or hostile towards belief.

And that is something we never, ever, ever want to do.

And so I want my listenership to know that I'm sorry if they feel that way.

And I'm going to do everything I can and I've talked to my board of directors about this,

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