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John Dillin will be no stranger to most of our listeners. Ten years ago he posted the first

of hundreds and hundreds of podcast interviews with Mormons who have over the last decade shared

their own stories, narratives and experiences that have been painful, beautiful, angry,

disillusioned, searching or reconciled to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Now where Mormon public knowledge had been largely controlled and managed by the central

body of the Church, or had been the subject of intellectual concern and debate,

John did something unique. He allowed every day folk to tell these stories, and what emerged

was a progressive Mormon movement that has, over the years, grown exponentially.

For the first time available to Mormons all over the world who had the technology to listen,

were volumes of compelling and heartbreaking personal stories, narratives that assured

questioners, doubters and those with failing faith that they weren't alone. A language was offered,

the questioners that brought their own experiences into sharp relief like faith crisis and TBM,

and this caused people to feel that their experience mattered that they were relevant and noticed.

Through social media Mormons who felt that they were at the periphery found each other

and a new Mormon subculture was born, but what is more, though the challenge has been that John

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