Another Ex-Mormon Podcaster Ex-Communicated - Landon Brophy | Ep. 2146
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
Another Mormon podcaster has been excommunicated for apostasy. In this episode, Landon Brophy of the Mormonish Podcat joins us to share his full Mormon story –from devoted BYU-bound Eagle Scout, missionary, seminary teacher, bishopric member, and military chaplain path… to publicly questioning church truth-claims and ultimately being excommunicated by the LDS Church. And all after seven years of being in-active.
Landon walks through his faith crisis step-by-step: discovering problems with the Book of Abraham, DNA and archeology issues surrounding the Book of Mormon, biblical scholarship, FARMS apologetics, and the moment he realized the evidence no longer supported what he had been taught. He also discusses the rise of Mormon-themed podcasts, the church’s increasing response to public criticism, and why excommunication no longer holds the same power it once did.
We also discuss the apostasy charges against him, the letter from church leadership, Mormon stories and the exMormon community, and Tim Ballard and the origins of the Mormonish Podcast. We also discuss why Landon still considers himself Mormon as part of his culture, how his family reacted to his faith transition and what peace after Mormonism looks like. We also look at how the church has treated critics in the past to how the church has treated those with abuse allegations.
This is a powerful conversation about belief, identity, authority, and what happens when someone chooses honesty over fear.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host, John DeLinn. It's May 8th, |
| 0:04.8 | 2026. And today we have another episode in a long series of covering Mormon excommunications for apostasy. |
| 0:15.4 | And specifically in this case, another Mormon podcaster has been excommunicated for apostasy. His name, for those of you |
| 0:24.6 | who don't follow ex-Mormon-themed podcast these days, his name is Landon Brophy. Hey, Landy, |
| 0:30.4 | hey, Landy. No problem. And go ahead. It's exciting. It's kind of two bucket list items this |
| 0:37.1 | month getting excommunicated and being on Mormon story. Now, I'm trying to remember, have you ever actually been like a panelist or anything? I've been, yeah, we did Fairview. We were here one time. I'm trying to remember what the theme was, but we've been in the studio once as well. But this is the first time you've told your story. |
| 0:55.1 | Tell my story, yep. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.3 | And maybe Rebecca was saying that you haven't really told kind of your Mormon story yet. |
| 1:01.2 | Is that right? Not too in depth. |
| 1:03.2 | No. |
| 1:03.5 | Okay. |
| 1:03.8 | Not to Mormon stories level. |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.1 | And for those just who don't follow, Landon is one half of the groundbreaking, earth-shattering, super popular ex-Mormon-Mormon news-themed podcast called Mormonish, starring both Landon and Rebecca Biblioteca, who's in Margie's chair, and she will be co-hosting with me today. Hey, Rebecca. Hey, I am so excited. Like I said, we're getting the band back together. Yeah. Yeah, Rebecca and I did kind of a Mormon Stories book club for several books. I missed that. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. And you also still run the Mormon, what, |
| 1:45.2 | book club? The good book club. We do. I mean, it's sixth year, believe it or not. And that actually factors into Landon's a Mormon story. So hear more about that as we go on. It's kind of cool. Well, thanks for joining. Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. And yeah, really quickly, I'll just ask people to subscribe to Mormon-ish YouTube channel and podcast. |
| 2:03.4 | And while you're doing that, we love it when you subscribe to Mormon Stories as well on YouTube and elsewhere. |
| 2:09.2 | That helps with the algorithms. |
| 2:10.5 | I want to welcome all of our new listeners and viewers that heard about Mormon stories through the church's lawsuit against me. |
| 2:19.8 | Welcome to Mormon Stories podcast. It's so great to have you. We just had 12 BYU students here |
| 2:25.8 | in the studio. They asked to come visit Mormon Story Studios, and several of them heard about |
| 2:33.4 | Mormon stories the first time from the lawsuit. |
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