1. John Dehlin was an influential early participant in the "Mormon blogosphere," and blogs at Patheos.
22 Facts About John Dehlin
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In January 2015, John Dehlin was excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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In 2007, John Dehlin completed a Master of Science degree in Instructional Technology.
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John Dehlin then worked at Microsoft for seven years in programs for developers, marketing, speech technologies, and product demos.
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In 2004, Dehlin moved to Logan, Utah, to begin work under David A Wiley at USU on OpenCourseWare-related projects.
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John Dehlin would serve two years as USU's OpenCourseWare Consortium Coordinator and Director of Outreach for the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, promoting OpenCourseWare to other universities, and a few years as director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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John Dehlin approached the Sunstone Education Foundation and presented to its board of directors the importance of participating in developing internet communities through blogging and podcasting in order to address the then-limited internet presence for constructive intellectual sources.
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The Board accepted his offer to initiate these programs and, in September 2005, John Dehlin joined the board of directors and began a Sunstone podcast as well as SunstoneBlog.
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In September 2005, after experiencing doubts in his faith and subsequently finding reasons to remain a member of the LDS Church, John Dehlin created the Mormon Stories podcast as an open discussion of Latter-day Saint issues, intending to give listeners reasons to remain in the church.
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Intermittently conflicted about continuing Mormon Stories, John Dehlin stopped and restarted the project a few times.
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In January 2010, John Dehlin resumed the blog and podcast, focusing on faith crises and mental illness.
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Two other regular hosts joined John Dehlin in conducting interviews for the podcast: Dan Wotherspoon, former editor of Sunstone magazine; and Natasha Helfer Parker, a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist.
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John Dehlin has been criticized for the lack of financial transparency and oversight in his nonprofit umbrella organization, Open Stories Foundation.
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In June 2007, John Dehlin started Mormon Matters as a blog and weekly podcast.
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In early 2008, John Dehlin converted Mormon Matters into a group blog and lessened emphasis on new podcast episodes.
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John Dehlin resumed the Mormon Matters podcast on March 5,2011, with Dan Wotherspoon as the host and Joanna Brooks as a frequent co-host.
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John Dehlin is the co-founder of the pro-LGBT "Mormons for Marriage" website.
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John Dehlin co-founded the now-defunct Stay LDS, a community that was dedicated to helping "unorthodox Mormons" stay in the LDS Church.
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From 1988 to 1990, John Dehlin served as an LDS Church missionary in Guatemala.
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John Dehlin chose to resume missionary service and was reassigned to finish his two-year term in Tempe, Arizona.
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John Dehlin remained an active member of the LDS Church for the next 20 years.
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In 2014, John Dehlin was investigated by his local church leaders regarding his online activity, culminating in a request by John Dehlin for greater privacy.