Hey everybody, the third annual Wayfair Summer Festival is coming up on July 11th, and you are not

going to want to miss this. We're bringing in some amazing speakers like Thomas McConkey,

Christine Hogland, and Catherine Sontag to talk about spiritual attention in the age of AI, the history

and future of Mormon utopianism, and what a Latter-day Saint cultural Renaissance might look like.

Plus, just lots of amazing time to connect with friends, old and new, and we've got catered

lunches, poetry readings, musical performances, breakout sessions, and art gallery, and everything

taking place in the gorgeous Heber Valley.

Space for this is extremely limited so you won't want to delay.

You can get tickets at Wayfairmagine.org or look for the link in the show notes.

Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today we're sharing a really special

conversation courtesy of our friends at Lift and Love. This is a conversation recorded at their

first ever gather conference in 2023, the world's largest Christ-centered gathering of LGBTQ Latter-day

Saints and those who love them. In this session, two men sat down together, Tom Christofferson

and Darius Gray. Both are devoted Latter-day Saints who know what it is to love the church

while also having experienced real marginalization within it. Darius Gray is a black Latter-day

saint who was baptized on December 26th,

1964, 14 years before the revelation that lifted the priesthood and temple ban. He entered the waters of

baptism knowing that he could not hold the priesthood, and he built his faith anyway. He helped found

the Genesis group, he waited, he worked. And on a day in June 1978, everything

changed. So this June, we're sitting with what that means. There's something so powerful in Darius' story.

His rootedness, his patience, his refusal to let institutional limitations become the ceiling of

his faith. And as a gay Latter-day saint, Tom Christofferson knows something about that too.

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