Episode 353: Al Carraway, Noted LDS Author and Speaker

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

My friend Al Carraway joins us from her new home in upstate New York. Al, who was on Episode 114, talks about her new book “Wildly Optimistic” and several recent powerful and vulnerable blog posts. If you want to find hope during difficult times, please listen to this podcast. Al has great insights to help all of us grow closer to our Heavenly Father, better support each other, and find strength during difficult experiences. Al is one of my personal heroes. I encourage everyone to read her book and blogs which can be found at: https://alcarraway.com/. On behalf of all of us, thank you Al for your beautiful life mission to bring others to Christ through our restored Church.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.1	My guest on today's podcast is one of my heroes, really, in my life, is Al Carraway.
0:16.9	Welcome to the podcast, Al.
0:18.9	Thank you.
0:21.0	Al doesn't really need an introduction.
0:23.4	She's somebody who's very well known.
0:25.2	She was on our podcast, episode 114 in the spring of 2019.
0:30.7	So that's almost two years ago.
0:33.6	And a lot's happened since then.
0:35.1	She's written a new book called Wildly Optimistic. She's
0:38.2	had many blog posts. She's had child number three. And she's made a cross-country trip living in
0:44.9	upstate New York. And I just want to share with our listeners how I feel about Al. Al has this
0:51.1	ministry within our church that doesn't show up what I call on an LDS Tools calling.
0:56.0	If I could look at her calling and her ward, it doesn't really show what she's doing.
1:01.7	I don't even have one.
1:04.2	There you go, listeners.
1:06.3	But it's people like Dennis Schlecker that join the church, a gay Latter-day Saint, and reading her book,
1:14.5	Tattooed Mormon, I believe is the right title, was key for him knowing that there's a place
1:19.9	for him in our church. And Al is just in this space of improving our culture to be less
1:25.6	judgment and more loving so more people can feel the
1:29.6	benefits of our restored doctrine and feel like they belong and feel like there's a place for them.
1:34.5	So I just think she's been preordained. I don't want to get too serious and too over religious here
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