Finding Personalized Direction on Your Path With Molly and Ruth

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All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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We’re excited to have Molly and Ruth join us in this week’s IN the Scriptures episode. Molly, an Arizona native, is a choir teacher with a passion for building community, and Ruth, originally from New York, works as an engineer who loves solving complex problems. The couple met and married in Utah before relocating to Indiana last year. Together with host Clare Dalton, they explore how cultural misunderstandings of doctrine and policy can cause real harm—and why acknowledging that harm is th...

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0:00.0	All right, welcome back to another week on the All Out in the Open podcast.
0:14.0	This is the In the Scriptures Week, and I'm Claire Dalton, and my guests today are Molly
0:18.8	and Ruth. Molly and Ruth, say hi.
0:23.6	Hi. They are joining us all the way from Indiana. We're so excited to have them and we'd love to have you introduce
0:27.5	yourself. So Molly and Ruth, whoever wants to go first, let us know a little bit about you and tell our
0:33.1	guests the best stuff about you. Okay, great. So my name is Molly.
0:38.5	I'm originally from Arizona and then went to school in Utah, graduated from UVU with a bachelor's degree in music and education, music education.
0:49.0	And then I am now, I live in northern Indiana with my wife. Ruth.
0:55.1	I grew up overseas. I grew up overseas.
0:57.9	I grew up in Dubai, the UAE.
1:01.5	I went to high school in New York City, and then I moved to Utah for school.
1:04.8	I went to BYU.
1:07.3	And during my schooling, I met Molly, we got married shortly after I graduated.
1:13.6	And that was about a year ago.
1:15.6	And I got a job here in Indiana.
1:17.6	And I'm an engineer here now.
1:20.2	So, yeah.
1:22.6	That's love it.
1:23.4	What are some of the biggest differences between like Arizona and Utah and Indiana that you've noticed so far in being out there? Lots of trees. Yeah. There's a lot of trees out here. Yes. Very beautiful trees. Yeah. I feel like we were experiencing fall over the first time. Yeah. I was going to say, it's that time of year. So changing colors, beautiful fall. It's gorgeous. Yeah. So pretty. Yeah. It's also
1:46.1	I teach people for people who aren't from Arizona that like fall and spring are like one day long.
1:53.1	So you have to be here on that one day and then it's gone. Like it's either winter or summer. And so we don't get a lot of that here.
2:00.1	It's also through what people say about Midwesterners. Like, there are very, very kind people here. Yeah, welcomed. Yeah. I love that. Wonderful one. And, okay, so I'm excited to talk to you. And maybe we'll just start this way about what has the first year of marriage been like? So I got married a couple months ago. So my wife,
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