The latest in published print on Evangelical / Mormon Conversation . . .
First, I need to quote Mark on his love for Southern Cal:
I live in Southern California. . . . Heidi and I, along with our two teenage kids, Emma Jean and Matthew, really do love it out here. Where else can you go swimming, hiking, or mountain biking virtually every day—about fifty weeks a year? Not long ago, I was out riding my bike. I was pedaling up a long hill, doing some serious sweating, and thinking to myself how I wished it weren’t so hot outside—and then I felt guilty when I realized it was February.
I like that we can ski in the morning on the snowy slopes of the San Bernadino Mountains, and then on the afternoon of the same day, after a short drive, we can swim along the sun drenched shores of the Pacific Ocean. (I’ve never actually done this. I just enjoy knowing that I could.) (37-38).
If I lived in South Cal, you bet I would go skiing and swimming in one day. 🙂
Secondly, Mark Mittleberg devotes most all of chapter 6, “God Told Me It’s True! – the Mystical Approach” to Mormonism in his book, Choosing Your Faith: In a World of Spiritual Options (Tyndale, 2008).
He opens up with a conversation with an LDS teenage girl named Rachel – “This conversation took place during a dialogue between Mormons and Evangelical Christians at Mariners Church in Irvine, California, Spring 2007.” (257n1)
Here is a quote from the chapter:
Some Mormon teachers today seem to be distancing themselves from these classic teachings of their founders, prophets, and leaders. I find that some Mormons I talk to affirm and defend this doctrine, while others try to dodge it by saying, “I don’t know anything about that.” (I’ve actually gotten both of these responses within moments of each other during the same roundtable discussion—from two different Mormons. I said to the second one, the one who had just denied knowledge of the many gods doctrine, “Of course you know something about it—your friend here just defended it a few minutes ago.”) (115).
Read that chapter and tell me what you think.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 
I don’t think it is so much distancing than a recognition that not everything taught is revealed but that a lot reflects the understanding of the person in question. Just look at the evolution of understanding in Joseph Smith’s own life.
Now I tend to favor what I’d call a more traditional theology than many of the recent writers on LDS theology. (Millet, Oster, etc.) But I think reading even a modicum of LDS history demonstrates a much wider range of theological beliefs than most Mormons are familiar with.
I think there is an assumption that tradition is all revealed whereas it often is simply traditional interpretation. The Brethren are wise to try and keep separate what we have a lot of evidence for in canon from what we have less evidence for.