Less Doctrine, More John Dehlin: The Man Behind Mormon Stories

Girlscamp

Hayley Rawle

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

John Dehlin, a fixture of the post-Mormon community and founder of Mormon Stories, joins me to chat about life beyond Mormonism. We cover his favorite movies, books, places, parenting philosophy, and what he feels people most often misunderstand about him. Then—surprise, surprise—we break the no M-word rule and talk a little ex-Mormon podcasting shop. We couldn’t help ourselves. Mormon Stories Hayley’s episode on Mormon Stories Lucy Hutchin's Patreon Join the Girlscamp: After Dark Patreon account here. For more Girlscamp content follow along on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube. For ad inquiries please email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Girls' Camp podcast.
0:44.6	I'm your host, Haley Rawl, and I am joined today by the one and only John Parkinson-D-Lin.
0:50.9	Hello, Haley.
0:51.6	Hi, I found out your middle name last night as I was researching you to make sure I had
0:55.7	all the information straight.
0:57.0	That's it.
0:57.6	Are you named after anyone?
0:59.4	Well, my great, great, whatever, grandfather, Samuel Rose Parkinson was one of the earliest
1:04.7	sort of pioneer leaders in the church.
1:07.6	Oh my gosh.
1:08.0	Okay, I didn't know that.
1:08.9	And you are named after him.
1:10.4	Yeah.
1:14.6	It's kind of a, my mom's maiden name. Okay, cool. I wondered that because I'm like,
1:19.4	that feels like a unique, well, it sounds like a last name. So there you go. Yeah, yeah. So happy you're here, John. Thank you. My honor. If you don't know John DeLyn,
1:23.6	John is the founder and host of Mormon Stories as well as board member of the Open Stories Foundation.
1:30.9	I wanted to read your mission because as I was researching, I was like, oh, I love this.
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