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Leading Saints Podcast

Leaders Helping LGBTQ Latter-day Saints

Leading Saints Podcast

Leading Saints

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this short interview, Kurt talks with Brent & Courtney Ebmeyer about the upcoming North Star Conference. The 2022 conference is June 9-11 both in-person and streaming online. Learn more about NorthStarLDS.org Listen to the podcast with Brent & Bruce Ebmeyer, Learning to Lead SSA Saints Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast The Leading Saints Podcast gets over 300,000 listens each month and has nearly 10 million total downloads as part of nonprofit Leading Saints' mission to help latter-day saints be better prepared to lead. Learn more and listen to any of the past episodes for free at LeadingSaints.org. Past guests include Emily Belle Freeman, David Butler, Hank Smith, John Bytheway, Liz Wiseman, Stephen M. R. Covey, Julie Beck, Brad Wilcox, Jody Moore, Tony Overbay, John H. Groberg, Elaine Dalton, Tad R. Callister, J. Devn Cornish, Dennis B. Neuenschwander, Anthony Sweat, John Hilton III, Barbara Morgan Gardner, Blair Hodges, Ryan Gottfredson, Greg McKeown, DeAnna Murphy, Michael Goodman, Richard Ostler and many more in over 700 episodes. Discover podcasts, articles, virtual conferences, and live events related to callings such as the bishopric, Relief Society, elders quorum, Primary, youth leadership, stake leadership, ward mission, ward council, young adults, ministering, and teaching.

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0:00.0

Hey everyone this is Kurt Franklewood leading Saints and we're going to sneak a short

0:05.8

episode in here I don't know if I even classified as an episode but we want to make sure

0:10.2

you're aware of an event coming up and I've invited Brent and Courtney

0:15.9

Ebbmeyer on here. How are you too? Great, how are you? Very good. And we're all affiliated with North Star in some fashion and you two, at least for the last few years, you've been in charge of organizing their annual conference. And so you've got it figured out at this point right?

0:34.3

I don't know I'd go that far but yes we've been involved with the conference in

0:40.3

some leadership role for about this our fifth year and but the last two years have been in as

0:47.0

chairs of the conference so nice cool and last year I've recorded an episode with

0:52.2

Brent and his brother Bruce.

0:55.0

I knew it was all your brothers with Stan with him.

0:58.0

That's right.

1:00.0

So Bruce, we told him about your story and whatnot, and so if people want to, I'll link to that in the show

1:07.1

notes.

1:08.1

But, so maybe just if people are listening to this, they're not familiar with not only the North Star

1:14.4

conference but North Star in general how would you explain to somebody maybe a

1:18.5

church leader what North Star is? That's a great question because I would say North Star is an organization that kind of meets

1:28.3

Latter-day Saints where they are. But in general, they help them people who experience same-sex attraction, maybe identify themselves

1:40.0

as lesbian, transgender, bisexual, anywhere on that kind of spectrum, but it helps those individuals

1:49.0

live a covenant keeping lifestyle.

1:52.4

Everything about North Star centers around Christ

1:55.6

and the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ

1:58.2

of Latter-day Saints.

1:59.6

And so we wholeheartedly affirm all those doctrines and policies but yet we also create a space

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