Episode 415: Dason Harker (former LDS) and Taylor Smith (active/believing LDS)

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

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4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

My friends Dason and Taylor join us to share principles about how to keep relationships together when one goes through a faith crisis/transition. Dason and Taylor were friends growing up in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada and both served missions. After they both got married and started families, they lost contact until Dason’s Facebook post in 2019 about this faith transition. Taylor reached out to Dason with a desire to validate Dason's experiences/concerns, as well as share how he (Taylor) had reconciled some of the complex issues he had also encountered with church history/doctrines. After some bumps in the road and honest communication, they learned to accept and support each other in their respective journeys without an agenda to pull one to their way of seeing things. They report how their friendship is now closer than ever. I believe our Heavenly Parents are pleased when we find ways to reduce divisiveness, stop pointing fingers, and love (instead of judge) others. Where we learn to “achieve greater unity as we foster an atmosphere of inclusion and respect for diversity” and “unity and diversity are not opposites” as taught by Elder Quentin Cook in October 2020 General Conference. Dason and Taylor teach us how to do this in a real-life situation. Dason and Taylor are also admins in the Facebook Group called “The Restoration Table” (https://www.facebook.com/groups/720024265292786 where current and former church members are working together to better understand and support each other (see Episode 414 for more). Thank you Dason and Taylor for being on the podcast and your good work to bring us together

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.0	In episode 414 with Tony Fieldsson, we referenced that we're going to have Dason, Harker, and Taylor Smith on a podcast.
0:19.0	They're part of the Restoration Table, and now we're doing that podcast, and it will be released after Tony a podcast. They're part of the restoration table and now we're doing that podcast
0:22.6	and it will be released after Tony's podcast. And this is a podcast about two good men, one that's
0:31.4	currently in the church and one that's currently stepped away from the church. But both of these
0:35.5	men are bridge builders that are trying to bring us
0:37.8	together as the same human family. And in theory, that's one thing, but to do it in reality is what
0:44.5	Dason and Taylor are doing. So our joint hope is that if you have people in your life, if you've
0:52.9	separated yourself from the church, that the people in the church will have better understanding of your road, if you have people in your life, if you've separated yourself from the church, that the people
0:55.3	in the church will have better understanding of your road. If you're in the church and you have
0:59.2	people in your life that have left the church, that you will have better tools and principles
1:03.6	to bridge, build bridges and find common ground so we can keep families together and friendships together and
1:14.6	community together.
1:15.6	I think it's possible and these men are doing it in real life.
1:19.6	So with that, I will turn it over.
1:21.6	We'll first have Dason introduce himself and then Taylor.
1:25.6	All right.
1:28.2	So yeah, hey, thanks for having this on.
1:30.6	Thanks for having me on.
1:32.4	So my name is Jason.
1:34.2	I am the former believer out of the two, I suppose you'd call me.
1:39.4	I don't know what you want to call me, but that works, I suppose.
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