First Person: Berkeley's Matt Marostica on How to Make Progressive Change within a Conservative Church

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🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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As part of our First Person series, Forum invites Bay Area residents to share their lived experience leading remarkable and important lives within our community. Matt Marostica lives in Berkeley but is the High Councilor in the Oakland Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as people within the faith prefer to be called instead of the more common term Mormon. Marostica, a former bishop of the Berkeley ward, says his congregation is made up of all sorts of people, from openly-gay members, to undocumented immigrants, to conservatives. Marostica says he loves his church and faith community, and is working to change it from the inside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.3	Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Every now and again, Forum just likes to talk with a
1:06.9	fascinating person here in the Bay Area. We call it our first person series,
1:10.9	and we're restarting it today with Matt Marastica.
1:14.6	He's something of an outlier.
1:15.8	He lives in Berkeley and was the ward bishop
1:18.1	of the Church of Latter-day Saints in the city
1:20.5	from 2008 to 2015.
1:23.4	He says the Berkeley Ward welcomes everyone,
1:25.4	openly gay members, undocumented immigrants,
1:27.5	and even conservatives.
1:28.8	Welcome to the show, Matt.
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