114. Are We Listening, Learning, and Loving? — A Conversation with Richard Ostler

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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For this episode, Faith Matters is honored to bring on our good friend, Richard Ostler.

Richard is a former YSA Bishop whose ministry has focused on all types of Latter-day Saint journeys, and especially on those of people who have felt marginalized in any way. In addition to his podcast, he’s now written two books, both under the title Listen, Learn, and Love: the first is subtitled Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, and the second Improving Latter-day Saint Culture. Both are available at Deseret Book, and were published by Cedar Fort.

Our conversation with Richard was about his second book, which was recently released. In it, he addresses questions around cultural issues like emphasis on callings, women’s experience, mental illness, length of missionary service, the repentance process, and the experience of those with doubts and questions.

We felt like this was a really helpful discussion, and Richard’s unique gift of empathy and his love of the Church combine to give really powerful insights into how we can all contribute to improving Church culture. We were grateful to spend this time with Richard, someone who’s shown such Christlike love to us and so many others.

Link to Richard’s books: https://deseretbook.com/t/author/richard-h-ostler?ref=product-producer-list

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore
0:06.6	a Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th.
0:12.0	It's going to be at the Amount and America Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be
0:16.5	an exceptional conference.
0:18.4	I attended last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening
0:27.2	to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling
0:36.7	a deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our
0:41.8	shared desire to speak to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a sense
0:48.6	of connection.
0:49.9	I'm also going to be one of the people speaking.
0:52.3	I'll be speaking a bit about eros energy and its connection to spirituality and to the
0:59.6	light of Christ.
1:01.1	And so I hope to see you all there.
1:08.7	Hey everybody, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters.
1:11.4	For this episode, we were honored to bring on our good friend Richard Osler.
1:15.3	Aubrey and I first got to know Richard when we were interviewed about our faith journey
1:18.2	on his podcast, Listen, Learn, and Love.
1:21.2	We found him to be truly empathetic, thoughtful, and loving and we remained good friends ever
1:25.7	since.
1:26.7	If you'd like to listen to that episode on Richard's podcast, it's episode number
1:29.9	199.
1:30.9	We also reared much of it on this podcast as episode number 34.
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