Episode 560: David Cook, Latter-day Saint Democrat

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

My friend David Cook joins us to share his journey as a life-long Democrat. David isn’t on the podcast to recruit for new Democrats, but rather to help create space in our congregations for different political perspectives to be welcomed and valued. David, who has been on this road his whole life, has the long view for younger liberal Latter-day Saints looking for voices and their needed perspectives. David shares his own journey (including a commitment to civil rights for over 35 years and putting politics aside during his church service) and suggestions for younger Latter-day Saints in their sometimes-difficult journey about where we are as a Church on issues close to their hearts. If you are a politically liberal Latter-day Saint, David’s podcast will help you. If you are not a liberal Latter-day Saint, perhaps David’s podcast will also help you and give you added tools and insights to help create Zion—where we bring our differences together so our “hearts are knit together as one.” Thank you, David, for being on the podcast. Your words and insights helped me. Thank you for all your work in many circles. ** Please Check Out My New Book called "Listen, Learn and Love: Improving Latter-day Saint Culture" David wrote Chapter 9 ** Deseret Book: https://deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-love Amazon: amazon.com/dp/1462139566

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:07.7	My guest on today's podcast is a returning guest. David Cook and his wife, Kathleen Cook,
0:15.3	were on episode 23 in January of 2020. They talked about service missions. David Cook also wrote chapter 9 of my book
0:28.2	Manifesting Love in Politics is the name of the chapter he wrote. It's part of my book,
0:33.0	Listen, Learn, and Love, Improving Latter-day Saint Culture. David is someone I deeply respect, and he won't like me talking about his church bio,
0:42.4	because we're trying to kind of not do that too much.
0:44.4	But I think it's fine that, you know, he presided over the Chile-Santiago South Mission from 2013 to 2016.
0:52.1	He's been a stake president.
0:53.9	He's been in Area 70.
0:56.0	And I believe you live in somewhere in New York.
0:59.1	Which city do you live in, David?
1:00.5	We're just outside of Rochester.
1:02.5	We're kind of in between Rochester and Pelmyra.
1:05.0	And we're recording this on a beautiful August day.
1:07.4	I assume it's green and beautiful outside.
1:10.6	It is.
1:11.5	This is the time of year.
1:12.5	I wish I lived where you lived.
1:15.7	Listeners, we're trying in this podcast to obviously build bridges and bring sort of
1:20.1	stories that we don't traditionally hear sometimes in our Latter-day Saint community to
1:25.3	listeners.
1:25.7	And you listeners are courageous enough to hear these
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