553: My Interview with Friendly Atheist Podcast
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2015
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
My appearance on the Friendly Atheist podcast with Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke.
Hemant Mehta is the editor of Friendly Atheist, appears on the Atheist Voice channel on YouTube, and co-hosts the uniquely-named Friendly Atheist Podcast. He is a former National Board Certified high school math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago, where he taught for seven years.
Jessica Bluemke is a contributor to Friendly Atheist and a graduate of Ball State University. She lives on the north side of Chicago and performs stand-up comedy in her free time.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hemin Tmetta. |
| 0:04.0 | And I'm Jessica Blimpke. |
| 0:05.2 | And you're listening to the podcast for FriendlyAtheist.com. |
| 0:09.0 | You can now listen to all of our episodes and see show notes at FriendlyAtheistPodcast.com. |
| 0:16.7 | John D'Lin is about to complete his PhD in clinical and counseling psychology. |
| 0:22.1 | But you may know him best as the founder of the Mormon Stories podcast, one that celebrates |
| 0:27.6 | the faith and also critiques it when necessary. |
| 0:31.3 | Because of some of his views supporting same-sex marriage and the ordination of women within |
| 0:36.4 | Mormonism, D'Lin was excommunicated from the Mormon Church earlier this year for apostasy. |
| 0:42.5 | That's a story that made the New York Times and we're going to talk about that with him. |
| 0:47.1 | And let me just add in a really quick story here. |
| 0:49.4 | I was recently at a conference with John and I ran into several people who were ex-Mormons. |
| 0:57.0 | And I don't think most of them had met each other before that very conference. |
| 1:00.8 | And we got to talking. |
| 1:02.2 | And at one point I'm like, how do you guys all know each other? |
| 1:05.2 | They all pointed to John. |
| 1:07.5 | He's kind of like the rock for all these ex-Mormons. |
| 1:11.5 | And it seems like every time I meet someone who left the Mormon faith, they all know John. |
| 1:16.9 | They all know his podcast. |
| 1:18.2 | They all listen to it. |
| 1:20.2 | But I just think that's really neat that you're kind of the go-to guy for people leaving |
| 1:24.0 | the Mormon Church. |
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