Richard ‘Papa' Ostler is the host of the Listen, Learn and Love podcast (https://listenlearnandlove.org/podcasts) which provides a platform for LGBTQ Latter-day Saints to share their stories. The podcast library, which contains over 400 stories from those working through complicated issues (repentance, early-release missionaries, emotional illness, faith-crisis).
Richard Ostler is a former YSA bishop who speaks at firesides and conferences about how to more fully embrace LGBTQ Latter-day Saints, see their gifts and contributions, and better understand their unique road. He is deeply committed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to creating more understanding and support for LGBTQ members--a goal started during his service as a YSA bishop where he learned to set aside past assumptions to better fulfill his stewardship responsibility to meet the spiritual needs of LGBTQ ward members.
Richard is the author of Listen Learn and Love: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints available Deseret Book (in-store and online at www.deseretbook.com/p/listen-learn-and-love-embracing-lgbtq-latter-day-saints) on Amazon (www.amazon.com/dp/1462135773) and Seagull Book (www.seagullbook.com/Listen-Learn-and-Love-Richard-Ostler.html)
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