Episode 385: Dr. Bob Rees, Educator, Writer, Disciple, LGBTQ Ally

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

My friend Bob Rees joins us to share principles and insights to bring our families and congregations together. Bob, who holds a PhD and is the Visiting Professor and Director of Mormon Studies at Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley (see his Wikipedia page for more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Rees), was a Bishop in a Los Angeles singles ward from 1986-1992 and created a safe place for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. Bob has been an LGBTQ ally for four decades with a “long-view” perspective that his helpful, hopeful, and insightful for other Latter-day Saints. Bob is co-author of the “Family Acceptance Project “(article #7 at https://www.listenlearnandlove.org/articles) an important document to keep Latter-day Saint families with LGBTQ children united, together and strong. Bob shares deeply moving stories of his work with his LGBTQ friends and asks this question when confronted with a situation “what is the most loving thing I can do”?. Bob also talks about Matthew 25 and the doctrine behind this chapter to reach out and love everyone. I encourage everyone to listen to Bob’s podcast—you will be moved and have more principals to help and support others—and better love like our Savior. Thank you Bob for being on the podcast and your six decades of service to bring others to Christ, feel His love, and bring us together as the same human family. ** Please Check Out My New Book At: ** Deseret Book: www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.8	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Bob Reese.
0:14.8	Welcome to the podcast, Bob.
0:17.0	Thank you, Richard.
0:18.0	It's wonderful to be here in this community that I love and just care so much about.
0:26.9	I've been aware of Bob for quite a while. This is the first time we visited, so I'm going to hear stories from Bob like you are going to hear that will be helpful for us.
0:37.1	Bob is one of my few guests that I can go on the
0:39.5	internet and find his Wikipedia page. And that helps me as a podcast host to know more about Bob.
0:45.9	And I'll link to his Wikipedia page, but there's a number of sections. There's his biography. He has
0:52.3	a PhD. He's currently teaching. He's a visiting
0:55.8	professor and we'll talk about his just kind of what he's doing there. The second part of his
1:01.1	Wikipedia page is all the interfaith and ecclesiastical stuff he's done for the LDS Church
1:06.8	and humanitarian work. The fourth section, I skipped one, is all the writing that Bob has done.
1:13.7	And we will link to some of the things that he's written and talk about those.
1:17.5	Five is things that Bob's probably embarrassed about, his honors, awards, and fellowships.
1:22.9	So I probably won't get Bob be able to talk much about that.
1:27.1	But there are a lot of things there that rightly so provide recognition for Bob and his work.
1:33.1	Six is his work, references as seven, and sources as eight.
1:37.4	I became aware of Bob when I kind of became an LGBTQ ally
1:41.3	because I recognized Bob as somebody has been in this space for perhaps five decades.
1:46.9	Bob is in his 80s and is one of the members of our church that just has a long view of LGBTQ and
1:56.0	faith and has been writing and talking about this for a long time.
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