Exploring the Doctrine of Exaltation When You Don’t See Yourself in It (with Jeremy and Sara Kerrigan)

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week our IN the Scriptures episode features Jeremy and Sara Kerrigan. After nearly two decades of marriage, Jeremy came out as gay. Though the couple later divorced, they continue to share deep friendship, faith, and love for each other and their five children. Together with host Clare Dalton, they discuss Doctrine & Covenants 124-136, exploring temple covenants, eternal relationships, and how our understanding of God grows through lived experience. #AllOutInTheOpen #INtheScriptur...

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0:00.0	All right, welcome to another week of All Out in the Open.
0:12.2	And this week we are in the Scriptures with Claire Dalton and Sarah and Jeremy Kerrigan.
0:17.0	Say hello.
0:18.0	Hello.
0:19.0	Hello.
0:20.0	Wonderful. So glad to have you. what would you like our listeners to know about
0:23.4	you um my name is sarah carrigan i'm not the video game person not the not the not the starcraft
0:31.1	character so one of my students one of my students it is a well it's just the same name just same name. One of my students when they met me said, have you ever played StarCraft? I'm like, no. No, but I know the reference is. Okay, got it. Yeah, so not that Sarah Kerrigan. I'm an Arizona native. I've lived here most of my life. Jeremy and I got married a little over 20 years ago.
0:55.3	We have five kids from 9 to 19 now.
0:59.1	Our oldest just turned 19.
1:00.3	He's on a mission in Michigan.
1:02.5	Thankfully a few hours away from the rest of Michigan.
1:05.4	Yeah, where the big shooting was.
1:06.7	That was kind of scary to be like shooting in Michigan and freak out for two seconds before we realized how far away.
1:12.0	And then obviously, awful still.
1:13.6	Still too close to the matter how far away it is.
1:15.4	Yeah.
1:16.1	I mostly stayed home with our kids for about 15-ish years before I started doing some other stuff, but also at home.
1:23.0	And now I'm in my second year of teaching high school full-time, and that has been quite the adventure. Yes, quite the adventure. She teaches both English and your book. Yes. Oh, wow. So I still don't sleep a whole lot, but it's getting better. The first couple years are a wild ride. But I do like it, so that's been fun. Love that.
1:44.2	Awesome.
1:44.6	Okay.
1:44.9	Jeremy, and what would you like everyone to know about you?
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