LDS Church Sues Mormon Stories Podcast and John Dehlin | Ep. 2139
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is suing Mormon Stories Podcast and Dr. John Dehlin claiming trademark and copyright infringement. We feel very confident in our standing in this case. We also feel as though the church is mischaracterizing what happened in mediation in a way that is misleading, untrue, and damaging.
Please join us today to learn our perspective on what the LDS church demanded in mediation, what John Dehlin and Mormon Stories did to accommodate reasonable requests, and how you can help support Mormon Stories Podcast.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm your host, John DeLinn. |
| 0:06.0 | It is Monday, April 20th, 20, 26. |
| 0:11.2 | And this is a special live stream episode of Mormon Stories podcast. |
| 0:17.2 | And the purpose of today's episode is to talk about a recent lawsuit that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and an arm of the church of the church called Intellectual Reserve has filed both against the Open Stories Foundation, which is the nonprofit that kind of oversees |
| 0:40.7 | and runs Mormon Stories podcast. But also, it's a lawsuit directed at me personally, which means |
| 0:47.8 | me and my family. The lawsuit, if I can do my best to kind of summarize it, and I'll just stipulate up front, |
| 0:57.3 | I've not read the lawsuit yet. |
| 0:59.6 | And there's a reason why. |
| 1:01.8 | The way that I heard about this lawsuit, it was last Friday afternoon, |
| 1:09.8 | as my memory best holds, I'm out of town in California and I receive |
| 1:18.0 | a text that some Instagram posts and some videos from a well-known Mormon apologist named Jasmine Raply. |
| 1:31.1 | I still don't remember how to pronounce her name. |
| 1:34.4 | But this Mormon influencer was posting about and sharing YouTube videos about a lawsuit when I wasn't even aware that a lawsuit |
| 1:48.2 | had been filed, nor had I had a chance to review the lawsuit. So that's how I first learned |
| 1:54.8 | about the lawsuit. Margie and I were out of town until literally 11 p.m. last night. And then this morning, |
| 2:05.2 | I've been in meetings with attorneys all morning. So I have not had a chance to read this lawsuit yet. |
| 2:12.5 | But what I was made aware of in addition to the lawsuit being filed and seeing Jasmine's statements on |
| 2:22.4 | Instagram and elsewhere in Jasmine's videos was that the church had also issued a formal statement. |
| 2:29.9 | And so I read that and immediately I was quite alarmed, you know, shocked and disturbed |
| 2:38.5 | and surprised by the church's statement because, number one, I thought that maybe they would, |
| 2:48.7 | maybe that I would have heard first from the church that I had been |
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