89: A Queer Mormon’s Walk through the Valley of the Shadow w/ Blair Ostler

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Religion

4.4 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! Series Title: An Exploration of Queer Mormon Theology [Part I of III] In this beautiful episode, Blaire Ostler joins Valerie in an autobiographical conversation about her painful and dynamic hero’s journey reconciling within herself her queerness and her Mormon-ness, finding for herself that she could not shun either. This conversation covers the gradual unfolding of her queer identity and the pain she went through both within her body and between herself an...

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0:00.0	Hi, Latter Day struggles, friends and fans.
0:03.1	We know that navigating a faith crisis can feel overwhelming, especially when it impacts our closest relationships, our parents, our partners, and our kids.
0:13.2	That's why Valerie has created two online self-paced classes to help.
0:17.3	The first is a couple's guide to faith crisis and expansion.
0:20.7	This class is here for a partner
0:21.9	or couple who want to navigate faith shifts with mutual respect and deeper connection. Next is
0:26.8	a family's guide to mixed faith parenting. This class offers tools to help parents develop
0:30.7	greater harmony and understanding when belief differences arise within our families. Both classes are
0:35.7	packed with helpful tools and perspectives that can
0:37.9	give you hope and a way forward. So if you're looking for a little guidance on this,
0:41.6	visit laddarday struggles.com to learn more. And now let's start the show.
1:06.8	Hello, everybody. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is Valerie, and boy, am I excited today to have a guest with me, someone who I admire so much. Hi, Blair Osler. How are you today?
1:13.6	I'm great. Thank you so much for having me. I am happy to be. I'm happy to be with you. And we've just been chatting, kind of planning this.
1:18.6	And I already just feel like we've bonded even in the last five or ten minutes. I feel like I found a friend.
1:22.0	So that's exciting. Love it. Love it here for it.
1:30.1	Yes. Yes. So Blair is someone who has been on my radar for a period of time because you get you get around. You've written some books. You're an academic, which I really admire. You're a very,
1:34.7	very smart human being. And we here on this podcast are going to get to learn from you today.
1:40.9	So before I start that, I wanted to say that I fell in love with you in one of
1:45.1	your podcasts that you were already on, who's also on the Dialogue Podcasting Network. I'm a new
1:50.5	member of that. And so Blair, you were with Taylor Petrie and Patrick Mason on a podcast. I'm trying
1:57.2	to remember what it was called, LGBTQ, Mormon history and theology. And so you guys,
2:02.0	I'm making a plug formally for that podcast and for that episode that I listened to her.
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