482: Jeremy Runnells and his Letter to a CES Director Part 3

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In February 2012, Jeremy Runnels experienced a crisis of faith, which subsequently led to a faith transition in the summer of 2012. In the spring of 2013, Jeremy was approached and asked by a Church Education System (CES) Director to share his concerns and questions about the LDS Church’s origins, history, and current practices. In response, Jeremy wrote what later became publicly known as Letter to a CES Director. Letter to a CES Director very quickly went viral on the internet. The CES Director responded that he read the "very well written" letter and that he would provide Jeremy with a response. No response ever came.

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0:00.0	Alright, now I'm going to go into the rapid firing round where I'm going to ask a bunch
0:21.7	of just questions, brief answers if you can.
0:25.2	Okay.
0:26.2	He will expand where we need to.
0:27.7	How much money have you made off of the letter to the CEO structure?
0:31.8	About a thousand.
0:32.8	Thousand dollars.
0:33.8	Yeah, not very much.
0:34.8	Just people donating.
0:35.8	Just people donating.
0:36.8	Do you want donations?
0:37.8	The donations are mainly there to maintain the website.
0:42.2	I'm not going to make a million bucks off of this.
0:44.5	Okay.
0:45.5	It was never about money to me.
0:47.0	It was about families and families.
0:49.6	So people want to support you, do you want support?
0:52.2	Well, I'm not going to turn them down.
0:54.6	Okay.
0:55.6	Yeah, there's a donation button on my website.
0:57.7	Okay.
0:58.7	Why didn't you just make a book and paper book print, publish it as a book?
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