562: Gina Colvin Interviews John Dehlin on the 10th Anniversary of Mormon Stories Podcast Part 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2015
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Gina Colvin Interviews me (John Dehlin) on the 10th Anniversary of Mormon Stories Podcast. We discuss my early years growing up in the church, my mission experience in Guatemala, my time at BYU during the early 1990s, my faith crisis while working at Microsoft, my 10 year journey with Mormon Stories Podcast, my excommunication earlier this year, and my thoughts/plans about the future (with Mormon Stories and Mormon Transitions).
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| 0:00.0 | Near my God to me, near to me. |
| 0:10.4 | This is part two of John Dillon from the beginning. |
| 0:13.8 | Okay, so you ended up back at BYU. |
| 0:15.4 | You're a little bit broken. |
| 0:17.0 | Yeah, I was dark. |
| 0:18.2 | I was in a dark place. |
| 0:19.4 | Right. |
| 0:20.0 | Tell us about that. |
| 0:20.8 | What do you mean you're in a dark place? |
| 0:22.8 | Well, I'm, you know, all the stuff that took here, |
| 0:27.4 | I wasn't until like the summer before my senior year that older |
| 0:31.8 | Oaks contacted me. |
| 0:34.1 | And so, you know, imagine my sophomore junior in half of my, |
| 0:39.6 | you know, senior year, just living with this darkness. |
| 0:44.8 | I was still active in the church. |
| 0:46.2 | I was still attending, but I, as soon as I came back, |
| 0:53.2 | I ran into this man named Ted Lion who, |
| 0:57.2 | who I've had on more of his stories, but he, he's the son of Tiedger Lion, |
| 1:01.8 | who was the right-hand man to a little Benion, |
| 1:05.4 | who had served in the Institute at the University of Utah. |
| 1:09.8 | And, and Ted Lion introduced me to these BYU courses called Colloquium, |
| 1:15.2 | Honors Colloquium. |
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