481: Jeremy Runnells and his Letter to a CES Director Part 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 July 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In February 2012, Jeremy Runnels experienced a crisis of faith, which subsequently led to a faith transition in the summer of 2012. In the spring of 2013, Jeremy was approached and asked by a Church Education System (CES) Director to share his concerns and questions about the LDS Church’s origins, history, and current practices. In response, Jeremy wrote what later became publicly known as Letter to a CES Director. Letter to a CES Director very quickly went viral on the internet. The CES Director responded that he read the "very well written" letter and that he would provide Jeremy with a response. No response ever came.

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0:00.0	So it's 83 pages long, the letter.
0:25.5	But you can read it in a day.
0:27.8	I think he can, certainly within a couple days.
0:32.0	You used Creative Commons attribution, which I thought was a Creative Commons licensing,
0:36.6	which I thought was cool.
0:37.6	What went into that decision?
0:39.6	It's not my information.
0:41.4	And I stand on the shoulders of giants, the Tanners.
0:45.0	They're real hipsters.
0:47.0	I mean, the Tanners?
0:48.4	Yeah, they knew a lot of its stuff in the 60s.
0:51.3	And they're just now being vindicated.
0:54.1	I heard about the Tanners, the anti-mormons, and the Godmakers, and all that stuff.
0:59.1	But I mean, how can you not watch that interview with Sandra Tanner?
1:02.7	She's just this nice grandma that knows a lot of stuff about Mormon history.
1:07.1	I mean, I'm not a Christian.
1:09.3	I don't really relate to the whole Christian stuff.
1:14.2	But they were, I mean, the stuff that they figured out came out with.
1:22.1	And I mean, they were involved in a lot of stuff, the Mark often stuff, the book of Abraham.
1:28.5	It's so really interesting.
1:30.0	But I stand on the shoulders of giants.
1:34.2	What I did is I took their research and their insights and their works.
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