The following panel was held on March 29, 2012, as part of the Utah Valley University

Mormonism and the Internet Conference. Participants include John DeLand of Mormon

Stories Podcast and the Open Stories Foundation, Scott Gordon of the Foundation for

apologetic information and research or fair, and Rosemary Evans, PhD candidate at the Annenberg

School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Okay, so we're going to get started

on this last session. You could all get in your seats, and the richer, so this is our opportunity

to have Q&A and interlocutor discussion. So I think I'd like to start by just asking the

panelists if any of them have a question for each other, and then we'll proceed to some questions

from the audience. I found the presentations. I found the presentations of the other guests

fascinating. I especially liked the Deconversion thing there, but I also liked the personal stories

that John gave, so just a comment. Emily, could you get there's a mic over there? I'm trying to run

the show solo right now, so sorry, we need to get this on the mic, so maybe what we could do first

is take your question, then they could repeat it. Yeah, I just curious if from the apologetic standpoint,

if there's really a sense of how difficult these struggles are for people with respect to

like a crisis of faith. That's a really good question. That's an exceptional question, and the answer

is, I mean, I should say the perception is that fair is the conservative, I'll put it as one

person, put it strong arm of the church, it's going to go there and force the issue on down

everybody's throat. The reality is we have a number of people with fair who have returned to the

church, who were away in a comeback. We have many, many, many members. In fact, I would say probably

a majority of our members have family members who have loved the church, and so I think that the most

the fair list members not only understand that, but really have a deep feeling for people who

have left the church. Now, you don't see that on the message boards, which goes back to on the

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