Episode 284: Taylor Petrey, Author “Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism”

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

My friend Dr. Taylor Petrey, who as a doctorate in New Testament and early Christianity from Harvard Divinity School and is a tenured professor at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, joins me to talk about his new book. Taylor’s book talks about the Church’s history with marriage (interracial marriages, role of woman, etc) and how that has evolved over the decades as part of the on-going restoration. Taylor’s academic work is helpful to me as a committed Latter-day Saint to understand our history and see patterns of continuing revelation that give me hope that we will continue to find more ways to better meet the needs of LGBTQ Latter-day Saints who walk a difficult road. I encourage everyone to listen to the podcast and read Taylor’s book (https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656229/tabernacles-of-clay/). Thank you Taylor for being on the podcast and all your great work to help us come together better as the Body of Christ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.8	My guest on today's podcast, calling in from Michigan is my friend Dr. Taylor Petrie.
0:17.7	Welcome to the podcast, Taylor.
0:20.5	Richard, thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited to get to talk to you.
0:24.6	Just by background, Taylor, I'm going to call him Taylor through the rest of the podcast, even though he is Dr. Petrie to many.
0:33.2	As a doctorate in New Testament and early Christianity from Harvard Divinity School and is now an associate professor at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
0:43.7	And he has written a book that we're going to talk about called Tabernacles of Clay, Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism.
0:53.4	And for our listeners, I haven't had a chance to read this book.
0:56.1	I like to read every book before doing a podcast, but that's become impossible these days.
1:01.2	But I follow Taylor on Twitter and social media, and a lot of my LGBTQ friends have read
1:10.5	this book and have commented on social media how much it's helped them.
1:14.8	Many of those are active Latter-day Saints, and I like any book or any ally that stepped in the
1:21.5	space that writes things that bring hope and healing, particularly to LGBTQ people who are walking a really difficult road
1:28.9	and also helpful for me as an ally. So I better have, I have better tools and a better
1:35.3	perspective to lift their burden versus saying something that could potentially add to their burden.
1:41.6	So we're going to focus on Taylor's book and a little bit about why he wrote it and what sections
1:47.8	he wants that are important to him and things that he feels would be helpful for our listeners.
1:55.6	But Taylor, it's June.
1:57.6	And when I think of Michigan, I think of tell us just how beautiful it is and outside where you live right now.
2:06.0	It's the absolute perfect time of the year here. I love it. I live probably about 40 minutes from the beach, and we try to make it out there pretty regularly.
2:16.4	But I also live on a small lake
2:18.8	here in Michigan, and I'm looking at my window at the sun, just kind of getting a little
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