50. Navigating the Church in an Interracial Marriage - Kimberly and Matt Teitter

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this episode, we speak with two amazing guests, Kimberly and Matt Teitter.

Matt and Kimberly have been married for ten years. Kimberly is a clinical psychologist at the Utah Center for Evidence Based Treatment, and Matt is an assistant principal, and Bishop of their ward in Salt Lake City.

In this episode, they discuss their experience as an interracial couple in the Church, their experience of privilege in the different roles they have, what it’s been like navigating local leadership right now, and how we can make our spaces safer for minorities of any kind

Even with their extremely busy schedule, Kimberly and Matt were kind enough to join us for a late night conversation. We just wanted to preface that they have two adorable kids, and in the podcast, you’ll hear some family sounds in the background as we talk. If you’d like to read a transcript of the conversation, head to the website at faithmatters.org and click on the post with this conversation.

We’re so grateful that Matt and Kimberly came on the podcast, and hope you enjoy the conversation.

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0:51.5	near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:54.0	Hi everyone, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
0:59.0	In this episode we speak with two amazing guests, Kimberly and Matt Teeter.
1:03.0	Matt and Kimberly have been married for 10 years.
1:05.0	Kimberly is a clinical psychologist at the Utah Center for Evidence-based Treatment
1:09.0	and Matt is an assistant principal and Bishop of their ward in Salt Lake City.
1:12.0	In this episode, they discuss their experience as an interracial couple in the church,
1:16.0	their experience of privilege in the different roles that they have,
1:19.0	what it's been like navigating local leadership right now,
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