Episode 493: Taylor Kerby: LDS Author of New Book on Scrupulosity

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

My friend Taylor Kerby (active LDS, Two Masters Degrees, PhD candidate) talks about his new book called “Scrupulous: My Obsessive Compulsion for God” which is at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Scrupulous-My-Obsessive-Compulsion-God-ebook/dp/B09NFLLPMD). In the podcast Taylor bravely talks about his own journey with Scrupulosity discussing what it is, how it put him in a difficult place, and what he did to overcome it. Taylor, who has a Masters Degree in Religion from Clairmont, goes further to talk about what we can do to help more Latter-days Saints feel at home, create Zions, and feel good enough in our congregations—and what we can do to better create Zions. I was deeply moved by Taylor’s insights into our restored doctrine and Christ’s teachings—and how to apply those in our own lives and the loves of others to bring hope and healing. I encourage everyone to listen to the podcast and read Taylor’s book. Taylor has wonderful and helping insights. I learned much listening to him.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.7	This podcast, we're going to talk about scrupulosity.
0:12.7	I have an author of a book that's been written.
0:15.2	He's the author of the book.
0:16.5	He has scrupulosity.
0:17.9	He's written a book about this.
0:20.3	And our joint prayers, this will be helpful for you. If you have scrupulosity. He's written a book about this. And our joint prayers, this will be helpful
0:22.2	for you. If you have Scrupulosity, or if you're a parent, a friend, a local leader that is
0:27.4	helping somebody through scrupulosity or to identify that they have it in the first place,
0:32.5	that this podcast will be helpful for you. The author of the book and the guest on the show is my friend Taylor Kirby.
0:41.3	Welcome Taylor to the podcast.
0:43.6	Thank you, Richard.
0:45.6	Taylor is joining us from Arizona via Zoom.
0:49.2	I'm in Salt Lake City, and I wish I were in Arizona.
0:52.8	I think it's a little warmer there right now that is in Salt Lake City.
0:56.7	Taylor is 30. He's a father of two kids. He served a mission in Washington, D.C. He was assigned to
1:04.8	speak Chinese, and that kind of got him into one branch for his entire mission, probably the single Chinese branch in the
1:12.6	Washington, D.C. mission. He has a couple master's degrees, and I'll let him perhaps go into
1:18.3	a little more detail, and he's a Ph.D. student in psychology. And so this is a guy that's
1:24.7	and is a teacher in Arizona. And so this is a wonderful that is a teacher in Arizona.
1:41.8	And so this is a wonderful man with a wonderful professional background, academic background, doing good, gone back to get a PhD to do more good in his circle and has also written this book about scrupulosity.
1:46.4	Is that okay for an introduction, Taylor? That I think was more generous than I deserve, Richard. Tell our listeners just your two master's degrees.
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