When God’s Promises Seem Unmet (with Hannah Bryan)

All Out in the Open

All Out in the Open, Questions from the Closet

Latter-day Saint, Christ, Society & Culture, Mormon, Gay, Religion & Spirituality, Faith, Lgbtq, Transgender, Church Of Jesus Christ, Christianity, Lgbt, Lds

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week in our IN the Scriptures episode Clare Dalton and Hannah Bryan discuss Doctrine and Covenants 94-108. These sections outline the intense persecution of the early Church members living in Missouri. As a transgender woman, Hannah has faced violence in her own life that mirrors that experiences of the early Saints. Clare and Hannah dive into the formation of the United Firm and Zion’s Camp. These groups faced challenges and didn’t achieve every purpose they set out to do—reminders tha...

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0:00.0	Welcome to All Out in the Open. I'm Ben Shalati, and on this in the scriptures episode,
0:03.7	our friend Claire Dalton talks to her friend, Hannah Bryan, about some really cool
0:07.4	scriptures from the Doctrine Covenants. In this episode, they talk about what it's like
0:11.3	when we have unmet promises, when things seem messy, but also how to build Zion, how to
0:15.5	help one another. I think it's a really fantastic episode, and I hope you enjoy it.
0:31.3	All right, welcome back to another episode of All Out in the Open.
0:35.2	This is the In the Scriptures episode with Claire Dalton and Hannah Bryan.
0:35.9	Hannah, say hi.
0:36.7	Hello. Hannah, thank you so much for being here.
0:39.7	I'm so glad we're able to make it work with the different time zones. Yes. We had a little
0:45.0	miscommunication. We got it working. We're all good. Hannah, what would you like our listeners to know about
0:49.4	you? I mean, I'm a transgender woman. I just spent the last year as the president of the BYU Global Women's Studies Honor Society,
0:57.9	which is a lot of words in rapid succession.
0:59.6	I talk very quickly sometimes.
1:01.7	I just graduated from BYU with a double major,
1:04.9	so Bachelors of Science and Microbiology and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish.
1:08.7	Conversations.
1:09.7	Sociology and one in Global Women's Days.
1:11.7	Thank you.
1:13.6	Wow.
1:14.2	Amazing.
1:15.4	I founded an organized Cougar Camp and Couture, which is a provo-based student
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