Building Zion as LGBTQ+ Saints and Allies

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🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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What does it take to build Zion? This week on IN the Scriptures, Clare Dalton sits down with Patrick Mason, professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University, to discuss Doctrine & Covenants 51-70. These sections follow the early Saints as they moved to Missouri to establish Zion. Clare and Patrick explore what Zion really means and the effort required to create it: We must radically change our hearts and become rooted charity, inclusion and abundance to form a communi...

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0:00.0	I love this episode because I'm so inspired by this idea of building Zion and I mean, I wrote a book on it and I'm so grateful for this podcast because it came back through and gave me so many more ideas.
0:13.5	Welcome to All Out in the Open.
0:15.1	Claire Dalton is back in the scriptures with Patrick Mason this week and they had the coolest conversation about what it means to
0:21.5	become one heart and one mind and how we actually build Zion. Yeah. And I, Patrick Mason is wonderful.
0:27.0	I just adore him. He's an author and he's just written some like really influential books that have
0:31.8	really helped me and I just appreciate him so much. This podcast was recorded when Patrick was in Arizona for the Gather Arizona Conference.
0:40.1	And he gave a talk at the conference about the prodigal son.
0:44.4	And it's just so beautiful.
0:45.8	I hope he publishes it because he talks about how the prodigal just means excessive
0:49.8	and that the love that is shown and that is prodigal is the father's love.
0:54.9	Cool.
0:55.5	And that's how we build Zion with this prodigal, like excessive love for one another.
0:59.3	Yeah, we hope you love this episode because we have prodigal love for it.
1:04.1	See what I did there?
1:05.3	That's great.
1:21.5	Yeah. All right, welcome back. It's another week on the All Out in the Open podcast. I'm Claire Dalton,
1:26.6	and this week we are in the scriptures with Patrick Mason. Patrick, say hi. Hey, how are you doing? Hello.
1:29.1	It's just a dream come true to be here. We're so excited to have this. And Patrick, say hi. Hey, how you doing? Hello. It is just a dream come true to be here.
1:30.2	We're so excited to have this.
1:33.4	And Patrick, will you just introduce yourself for our listeners?
1:35.6	Yeah, sure. So I'm Patrick Mason.
1:40.8	I'm a, my profession, I'm a professor at Utah State University. I teach courses in religious studies and history.
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