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Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host

John Delin and you are listening to, let's just say segment two of a multi-part

interview series for those who were able to tune in earlier. Gina Colvin sort of

began this series by interviewing me John Delin for her podcast The Thoughtful

Faith. I've shared that interview already on Mormon Stories and it's a

several-hour interview where we talk about my years in the church growing up,

my mission experience, my time at BYU and what led to you know Mormon Stories

after my faith crisis. We talk about the Mormon Stories journey over the past

several years and then we end by talking about my ex-communication and kind of

what has happened since then. That was part one of sort of section one of this

multi-part series. Now what we're going to do is I'm interviewing Dan Witherspoon

for a Mormon Matters podcast. So Dan and I have been friends for a long time. Dan

ran Sunstone when I first started wanting to do some sort of work within Mormon

ism. I was back in 2004 and Dan was really instrumental in helping me get

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