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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week on IN the Scriptures, Clare Dalton and Becca Shumway dive into Doctrine and Covenants 18-28. These revelations shaped the early structure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Clare and Becca explore how structure can be both a help and a hindrance to personal growth. In the episode, Becca shares her insights on faith, the ongoing restoration and what it means to truly see the worth of every soul.

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Out in the Open. I'm Charlie Bird here with Ventilotti, and we've got another
0:03.8	great episode for you. Yes. On this in the scriptures episode, Claire talks with our friend Becca
0:09.2	Schumway about the scriptures. And I love Becca. I've known her for a few years. And she's one of those
0:13.6	people like when I met her, I was like, we just like clicked because we're similar ages. I'm
0:17.7	clearly older. But just like similar journeys with our faith, with our
0:23.2	orientation. And she is just like someone who loves the gospel of Jesus Christ so much. And that
0:28.0	just so resonates with me. They talked about a lot of really interesting things. But I think
0:31.3	my favorite part was just hearing two gay women talk about the gospel. It was just really
0:36.2	fun because there's like this joke like, where are the gay women in the church?. It was just really fun because there's like this joke like,
0:38.3	where are the gay women in the church? And it was just so fun to hear the insights from two really
0:43.8	strong Latter-day Saint-Women. Yeah, we know where they are. They're on this episode. We're so excited to be back with another week of In the Scriptures on the All Out in the Open podcast. I'm Claire Dalton. And this week we are in the scriptures with Becca Schumway. Becca, why don't you say hi?
1:10.1	Hello. So happy to be here. So happy to have you.
1:13.9	I'm so glad we could make this work. Becca, what would you like our listeners to know about you?
1:18.9	My name's Becca. I'm in Salt Lake. I don't know. I love my LGBTQ-LDS family I love the scriptures and I love God and so happy to be here at the crossroads of all those things. It's good.
1:37.0	The crossroads is getting kind of big, huh? We meet a lot of people around here. It's good. The more the merrier.
1:42.1	And you're in Salt Lake. So we are, I'm down here in Arizona and we are enjoying our wintertime.
1:48.0	What's the weather like up there for you?
1:49.9	It's actually really warm today. It was like in the 50s.
1:52.0	Oh my gosh. That's awesome.
1:53.2	And it's kind of melty for better or worse.
1:55.7	Until the next storm rolls through.
1:57.9	Yep. Yep. We got a little bit of rain this week, and it was the first rain that we've had in
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