Episode 487: Jonathan Rogers, LGBTQ Ally

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

My friend Jonathan Rogers (Married father of two) joins us from his home in Georgia to share some of his story. Jonathan starts by bravely sharing working through worthiness issues in his teens which put him in a dark place feeling outside of God’s love and full of shame. Jonathan talks about the love, kindness and compassion he would give to his younger self to eliminate needless shame and self-loathing. Jonathan talks about his road to listen to LGBTQ Latter-day Saints and their often painful experiences. Jonathan talks about his love for our LGBTQ friends and what we can do to better support them. Jonathan talks about his faith-crisis and how he is navigating being an active Latter-day Saint and holding space for everyone on their respective paths. Jonathan, who is a moderator of Mormons Building Bridges, is working hard to building bridges and bring more understanding to see everyone as members of the same human family. Thank you Jonathan for being on the podcast and all your great work to bring hope and healing. You are a good man and friend.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.9	My guest on today's podcast is my good friend Jonathan Rogers.
0:14.3	Welcome to the podcast, Jonathan.
0:16.5	Thanks, Richard.
0:18.8	Jonathan and I have been trading messages and interacting for several years as we're both LGBTQ allies.
0:28.4	And by way of interduction, Duction, Jonathan is 32 years old.
0:34.3	He lives in Canton, Georgia, which is about 30 minutes north of Atlanta.
0:40.4	He has been married nine years.
0:42.5	Jonathan and his wife have two kids.
0:44.6	He professionally, he's consulting in the IT world.
0:49.6	He's active LDS.
0:51.9	Jonathan is in a lot of spaces trying to do good. He is the moderator, one of the
0:58.2	moderators of the Facebook group, Mormons Building Bridges. He is really good at trying to hold
1:05.2	space for everybody. He has people that he's deeply close with and loves and supports that are
1:10.7	active in the church,
1:12.5	people that are sort of trying to figure out the church, people that have left the church,
1:16.2	and probably people that are angry at the church.
1:18.2	And Jonathan is one of those courageous people that is trying to create space and hear stories
1:24.1	and be friends to all these people.
1:27.3	And I think that's what Christ was really good at also.
1:30.8	That's not easy to do to be in all those circles.
1:34.5	And our joint prayers as Jonathan speaks that everything he shares,
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