This is infants on Thrones, the philosophies of men beingled with humans.

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Welcome back to Infants on Thrones. This is Scott.

In this episode we have a large panel discussing communities.

Our conversation ranges from our own personal communities to online groups,

to theorizing about the future of community building.

Joining me and fellow infants Matt and John in the panel are some names you might be familiar with.

Micah Nicholiason, who's been on several podcasts with us before,

as well as Nick Bigney, one of the contributors to the Mormon Expositor

podcast, and finally, Allison Udall and Steve Holbrook, both talking about their new project Mormon Spectrum.

Check out their website at Mormon Spectrum.org.

So this is a topic that's been really near and dear to my heart for a while the idea of communities

because we have we've been thinking about working on communities at least here in Phoenix for gosh the better part of five years six years almost and it's been a work in progress there's been ups and downs there's been evolutions and changes and

different things and we're now at a place where we have just over 700 people on

our Facebook group and probably give or take 300 relatively active members that attend things in person.

So it's been, I think those of us here me Scott and mica have been in administrators of that and trying to facilitate that for the last five years and it's a constant

ebb and flow and change and so this concept is has kind of been

is always on the forefront of of our minds I think and so it's good to get different perspectives and

and see kind of what the future is for some of these communities but could you all talk

about your experiences in your in your various geographic areas as it pertains to communities?

Yes, sure.

This is Steve.

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