Episode 591: Tyler Johnson, Navigating Complicated Church Topics, Extended the Tent of Zion

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

My friend Tyler Johnson (married father of 3, active LDS, Oncologist and Assistant Professor Stanford Medical School), joins us to talk about principles that can help build a long-term foundation to remain in the Church and process the complicated topics (history, prophetic infallibility, imperfect members, etc) Tyler shares his upbring where his father didn’t create a fairly-tale type narrative of our church history—but on honest discussion about the warts that are part of the beautiful restoration of the gospel. Because of this, Tyler didn’t ever have to deconstruct and then reconstruct—it has always been about construction. For Tyler (and I believe many others) this is a more sustainable framework to move forward as a Latter-day Saint. He also talks about the love present in his home that help form his feelings about his Heavenly Parents and their love for all of us. It also created a safe environment to process honest questions. Tyler shares his vision for what each of us can to in our area of influence to “Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes” (Isaiah 54:2). He talks we can follow the example of Jesus—who brought the tent of the gospel to everyone—and how we can look to do that in our areas of stewardship. You can read more about Tyler’s work and insights in this BYU article: https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/a-teachers-plea/ If you are processing the warts of the restoration or current issues—or helping others—please listen to this podcast. This is one of the very best episodes we’ve done on this subject, and I was deeply moved by Tyler insights, principles and gospel perspectives. Thank you, Tyler, for being on the podcast and all your good work in many circles to improve the lives of others!

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.8	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Tyler Johnson. Welcome to the podcast, Tyler.
0:15.9	Thanks so much for having me, Richard. I really appreciate the chance to talk with you.
0:20.4	I reached out to Tyler. Most of my guests reach out to me, but once in a while I'll come
0:25.6	across some content that I feel would be helpful for you, our listeners. And Tyler agreed
0:31.8	to come on the podcast and share some of the things we're going to talk about. But just by way
0:37.4	of introduction, Tyler grew up
0:39.4	in Utah. He served a mission in Mexico. He's a married father of three, eight, 11, and five. He lives
0:46.0	in Palo Alto by profession. He's a medical doctor. He's an oncologist. He also splits his time
0:52.3	teaching at Stanford in the medical school at Stanford, got a medical degree from University of Pennsylvania.
0:59.9	I assume there's some residences and some other experiences.
1:05.2	Was it all at UPenn or was it other places?
1:09.6	No, well, so I did medical school at the University of Pennsylvania.
1:12.8	I did my bachelor's degree at BYU, and then I did my internship, residency, chief residency, and fellowship.
1:20.0	All of those were at Stanford, and then I stayed and joined the faculty when I finished all my training in 2016.
1:25.3	Did you have any ties to Palo Alto before or now you're raising your
1:28.6	family there? Is this new territory? No. In fact, when I came out here to interview, I had never
1:35.0	even been to Northern California, much less Palo Alto or Stanford before. I didn't know really a thing
1:41.4	about it. And then we fully planned on being here for just a couple of
1:45.6	years for the first part of my training. But every time we've had a chance to leave, it's been so
1:49.8	we've just loved it so much that we could never bear to go anywhere else. So I don't know if we'll
1:56.1	be here forever and ever, but right now we really love it. Well, thanks for the work you're doing.
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