Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast, call-in live Q&A edition.

This is John DeLinn.

It is June 14th, 2025.

We're live streaming for those who are on YouTube, and we are continuing our experimentation

with a format that we've tried a few times now, which is a live call-in show,

where we prepare some initial thoughts and an initial discussion with an expert panel,

or at least a panel of cool, thoughtful, smart people.

And then we invite you all to be a part of the conversation and that way we can

have a dialogue we can hear from you and that's kind of what today is going to be about for those of

you who want to join the live stream what we will do is we'll put a link to the stream pinned to the top of YouTube comments. And then what we're

just going to ask is that when, if and when we bring you on, that you keep your comments very

short. This is not the place to tell your mini Mormon story. We're going to ask you very targeted

questions and we'll ask you to give very

brief responses. And then if any of the panelists want to engage you a little more, we will,

but we'll kind of proceed in that way. Thanks again for joining us today. The topic that we're

going to be covering is what caused you to leave Mormonism or the Mormon church.

And we're going to be giving kind of an overview for those who are never Mormon or who are Orthodox believing Mormons.

And you haven't really learned about or spent enough time thinking about why so many people leave Mormonism these days.

We're going to give an intro to that and then here for some live callers.

And to join us in this discussion, we have Colby Reddish.

Hey, Colby.

Welcome back.

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