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Mormon Stories Podcast

913: Secularism Meets Christianity: Shawn McCraney Interviews John Dehlin Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Heart of the Matter's Shawn McCraney sits down with John to have a discussion about:

*(Part 1) John's Mormon story,
*(Part 2) The history of Mormon Stories and how his motivation behind the podcast has transformed over time, and
*(Part 3) An interesting back-and-forth as John gives his take on Christian concepts including God, sin, redemption, and much more.

Continuing a theme this year of capturing updates from some of our most impactful past interviews, in the coming weeks John will interview Shawn again to see what life has been like since his Mormon Stories interview released February 2010!

Transcript

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We like to throw rocks at the people who don't see the world in the way we do.

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I don't know why.

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Thanks for your support.

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Okay, welcome our very special guest, brother, mystero, Dr. John Dillin.

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I can't tell you how grateful I am that John has taken a time out of his busy schedule.

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He's very busy man.

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Didn't have to do this, but he elected to.

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We go back a long way.

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John interviewed me on his warmest stories back.

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We've been talking.

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I think 2009, number is 221 and 222.

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And so we have some history between ourselves.

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Before we hear John, I just want to explain how we're going to do our time together

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so you'll know about tonight and the next week and the following here on Heart of the Matter.

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First part one, I've asked John to this tell us his history.

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