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

John Delin. It's June 19th, 2017. It's a little bit early in the morning and we're

very excited to be bringing you kind of a little bit of an extemporaneous

interview a couple days ago. Amy Grubs and some of the OSF board members and I

all noticed an article that was posted to the internet called They Can Leave the

Church with They Can't Leave the Church Alone and we noticed that it was getting a

lot of traction that a lot of people resonated with the article and the article

was written by Brynn Thomas Gantt who has actually been on Mormon transitions

Mormon Stories before. She was actually one of the first people along with

their husband Jared that we interviewed about experiencing a Mormon religious

transition and it was great to have her and so I recognized the little image

there and we thought it's such a common issue it's such a common topic that we

would go ahead and include it as part of the Mormon Stories Mormon transitions

kind of discussion so this kind of fits both categories but today this early

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