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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this ALL Together episode, Liz Macdonald and Michael Soto sit down with Pastor Stan Mitchell, a Christian pastor with a powerful journey of faith and inclusion. Growing up in a fear-based, exclusivist Christian tradition, he gradually expanded his understanding of God’s love and eventually played a role in his Nashville church’s decision to fully embrace LGBTQ+ members in 2015. Now, he travels extensively, helping Christian families and churches navigate faith and LGBTQ+ acceptance. Pasto...

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Out in the Open. I'm Ben Shalati here with Charlie Bird.
0:02.6	We have an altogether episode this week, and Liz and Michael sat down with Pastor Stan
0:06.9	Mitchell and had an amazing conversation. It was so fun to listen to it.
0:10.2	I was really inspired by the episode, and just the way that Stan is grounded in the scriptures
0:15.5	and a love for Jesus, I was just so inspired.
0:18.5	There was so much grace, and I feel like all three of them
0:22.1	put words to like concepts I've been thinking about or things I've been feeling and like yeah,
0:26.9	Pastor Mitchell. Do we call him Pastor Mitchell or Stan? I'm not sure. I don't know. But he just
0:32.5	had this amazing way of like bringing scripture into the present day and we think you're going to love it.
0:50.2	Well, welcome to our episode of All Out in the Open.
0:55.0	We have Pastor Stan Mitchell with us today, and we are so excited to have you here.
1:00.7	So I've been following Stan on Facebook for years and just always blown away by his commentaries, his stories, his in-depth looking at scripture and letting me see it with new eyes.
1:15.7	And I got to meet him this fall at the gather conference in Provo, and I, you know,
1:22.8	fan-girling a little bit, just happy to meet him. And it has been a delight to be able to
1:28.2	converse with him one on one and learn more about what he does. And we wanted to have him here
1:34.9	and talk to us. So reminder that our episodes are highlighting those who are building and strengthening
1:43.0	in their communities. And that really
1:45.4	surmises what I have gathered from Stan. Stan, do you want to tell us a little bit about you,
1:52.0	your background, and then like, like why you're in this space? A long time resident of Arkansas,
1:59.4	both sides of my family there for 120 years. Dad was one of
2:04.0	15 kids, number 12, 15. I have 45 first cousins on my father's side. Anytime I say dad was one
2:11.4	of 15, people always say, you know, Roman Catholic or LDS and I say no, northeast Arkansas.
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