621: Jeremy Runnells Threatened with Excommunication for his "Letter to a CES Director"

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 February 2016

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

On February 8, 2016, Jeremy Runnells received notice from his stake president, Mark Ivins, that he would face excommunication (a disciplinary council) on February 14, 2016 for publishing his "Letter to a CES Director." This press conference was held in support of Jeremy. The next morning after the press conference, Jeremy's disciplinary council was postponed until late March, 2016.

This press conference was held at the Club/Cafe at 50 West in downtown Salt Lake City.

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0:50.4	Hello everyone and welcome. Thank you for coming. My name is Shonda Lynn. I'm the
0:56.5	host of a podcast called Mormon Stories. I guess is...most of you know that. It is...
1:07.2	what's the date today? February 10th, 2016 and we are here to celebrate the
1:17.6	accomplishments of someone who I think is really important to probably everyone
1:22.9	here and that's Jeremy Reynolds. Everyone this gives Jeremy a hand.
1:39.4	It's a full house. I want to thank the people at...is it Club Cafe at 50 West? What's
1:47.5	the right way to say it? 50 West, say it again? 50 West Club and Cafe. So this is
1:55.4	Jake Jensen. Everyone say hi to Jake. We contacted Jake like two days ago and said
2:03.1	can we take over your restaurant for the evening? And fortunately he and his...and
2:08.0	his bosses were willing to let us do this on such short notice. So can we all give
2:14.1	Jake and his bosses a round of applause? Thank you.
2:22.6	This club has invited us to show up periodically. Let's just say every other week or so to do
2:29.3	what we're going to be calling Mormon Stories Live which will be just a chance to
2:34.5	do some live interviews with the live audience. We're going to be announcing that
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