Richard Ostler Welcome to our podcast! My name is Richard Ostler (twitter: twitter.com/Papa_Ostler; FB: facebook.com/richard.ostler.5; IG: instagram.com/papa_ostler/) and am a native of Salt Lake City. I am the author of "Listen Learn and Love: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints" at Amazon (amazon.com/dp/1462135773) and Deseret Book (deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints) I am also the author of "Listen, Learn and Love: Improving Latter-day Saint Culture" at Amazon (amazon.com/dp/1462139566) and Deseret Book (deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-love) I am the author of two Ensign articles on ‘How the Savior’s Healing Power Applies to Repenting from Sexual Sin’ (August 2020/YSA Digital Only) www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2020/08/young-adults/how-the-saviors-healing-power-applies-to-repenting-from-sexual-sin and ‘7 Tips for Overcoming Pornography Use’ (October, page 72) www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2020/10/young-adults/7-tips-for-overcoming-pornography-use. Expanded thoughts on these articles are in my book about Improving Latter-day Saint Culture. I have degrees from the University of Utah and Brigham Young University (business). I married my best friend and eternal companion Sheila Juergens of Houston, Texas in 1990 and we are the parents of six children and several grandchildren and live near Cottonwood High School in Salt Lake City. I believe in and am deeply committed to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and want it to work for a wider group. The name ‘Papa Ostler’ resulting from being introduced to Twitter by my High School age son Matt in 2010. I wanted the high school age youth to know I wasn’t their age as I interacted with them … hence the name Papa Ostler. I served as a YSA Bishop in the West Valley City/Magna area of Salt Lake (released in 2016) and met some of the finest people I will ever know. In addition to meeting with wonderful active members of my Ward, I reached out and connected via social media (mostly via the private messaging features of FB and Twitter) with many of our inactive members and their non-member friends. Over time, many felt comfortable meeting with me and sharing their stories. Through hundreds of interviews and ‘listening to understand’, I was able to ‘see’ the church from the eyes of those on the outside. Many feel the church is their ‘spiritual home’ but feel uncomfortable attending for a variety of reasons such as work-in-progress testimonies, concerns about church history, feeling unworthy because of past or current sin, don't fit the cultural mold, role of women, are LGBTQ and/or feel God's LGBTQ childen should be more welcomed in our congregations, etc. This podcast is designed to 'Have a Conversation' about some of the more complicated issues in our church to help all of us 'listen, learn and love' so we can minister in a more effective way to all of Heavenly Father’s children. Are podcast are indexed by category at listenlearnandlove.org/podcasts Thank you for joining us. You can't donate to this podcast. There are no sponsors. But you can leave a review/rate the podcast on the platform you are listening. With love, Richard 'Papa' Ostler ❤ richard@ostlergroup.com Richard Ostler’s tracks Episode 537: Taylor Niebergall, Building Bridges Podcast by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-25T02:40:22Z Episode 536: Sadi Rogers, Same-Sex Marriage, Believes in Church by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-18T01:49:32Z Episode 535: Ashley Smith, LDS Mother of a Gay Son, LDS Living Article by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-15T01:50:27Z Episode 534: Marie Ellis Cook, Narcissistic Abuse Survivor by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-12T02:47:59Z Episode 533: Isabelle Wheeler, Nonbinary Latter-day Saint by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-09T03:36:59Z Episode 532: Teresa Myers, Age 24, Bisexual Latter-day Saint by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-06T04:02:13Z Episode 531: Taryn Hiatt, Suicide Prevention by Richard Ostler published on 2022-05-27T02:46:10Z Episode 530: Dr. Christian Judd - Coping with Loss from Suicide by Richard Ostler published on 2022-05-24T18:24:59Z Episode 529: Craig Jones, Traumatic Brain Injury by Richard Ostler published on 2022-05-24T18:12:32Z Episode 528: Chandler Rogers, Shares His Journey Overcoming Pornography and New App Called Relay by Richard Ostler published on 2022-05-22T16:36:21Z
Episode 537: Taylor Niebergall, Building Bridges Podcast by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-25T02:40:22Z
Episode 536: Sadi Rogers, Same-Sex Marriage, Believes in Church by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-18T01:49:32Z
Episode 535: Ashley Smith, LDS Mother of a Gay Son, LDS Living Article by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-15T01:50:27Z
Episode 534: Marie Ellis Cook, Narcissistic Abuse Survivor by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-12T02:47:59Z
Episode 533: Isabelle Wheeler, Nonbinary Latter-day Saint by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-09T03:36:59Z
Episode 532: Teresa Myers, Age 24, Bisexual Latter-day Saint by Richard Ostler published on 2022-06-06T04:02:13Z
Episode 530: Dr. Christian Judd - Coping with Loss from Suicide by Richard Ostler published on 2022-05-24T18:24:59Z
Episode 528: Chandler Rogers, Shares His Journey Overcoming Pornography and New App Called Relay by Richard Ostler published on 2022-05-22T16:36:21Z
