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I'm 237pm Mountain Time. I'm broadcasting to you from my basement here in North Logan, Utah.

And I'm very excited to have with me, Allison Udall.

Allison is known throughout social media within Mormonism as being a very active and effective contributor and participator.

But I think her biggest splash to date and you can correct me if I'm wrong, Allison, is when she teamed with my friend Steve Holbrook and a few other friends to create a website that has become very important for progressive and post-mormons called Mormon Spectrum.

You can find it at MormonSpectrum.org.

And there are several cool things about the site that we'll get into. But probably the two most important things about Mormon Spectrum are number one.

It's sort of explicitly names and profiles, various types of Mormons such that people can really start developing of a vocabulary and an understanding of the fact that there are various types of Mormons.

You can start to explore and understand their identities and their situations in life better.

And so their resources made available for people based on, you know, whether they're whatever type of Mormon they happen to be.

And we can talk about that. But the other thing that's really important about Mormon Spectrum and what I've seen as being the most impactful so far is that it puts up a map of in person face to face sort of geographically based communities across the world.

Such that if you are looking for local face to face support, you can go to Mormon Spectrum and find community.

And for progressive and post-mormons, I think the value of community cannot be overstated.

So this is actually going to be a joint release. I'm going to release this episode both through Mormon Stories and through Mormon Transitions podcast because it's going to be important and valuable for both audiences.

So with that, Alison, you'd all welcome to Mormon Stories and Mormon Transitions.

Thanks so much. Thanks for having me.

Our pleasure. So let's just start just hearing a bit about your background with the church.

And sort of the events that led to you wanting to get involved in online progressive post-mormonism.

Sure. Let's see. I was born in Germany. My dad worked for the service. He was in military intelligence.

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