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# Ben Schilaty
Ben Schilaty
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Ben Schilaty, an incredible author and therapist, joins us to share profound insights surrounding his journey as a gay member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He talks about his experience coming out, his initial thoughts and decisions, his determination to verb active in the Church, and why he chooses to stay active today. Ben is one of the most mature, thoughtful, and witty people we have had on the channel -- this episode is a must-watch! Thanks for joining us, Ben!
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- Introduction - Praying, fasting, hoping to be straight - Coming out at age 30, educational background, purpose - Diverse experiences and stages in the LGBTQ community - When people leave the Church - Is the only path celibacy? - Experience realizing the unfairness - Live NOW - Honoring people in their faith - The most unkind comments - Anxiety and negative comments from others - When people know better, they execute better - Sit with people where they are - Feeling heard and seen - Why Ben chooses to stay active; feeling called to reside - Sabrina's exp
For today’s episode as June and Pride month advance to a close, we brought on two really special guests, Ben Schilaty and Charlie Bird. Charlie and Ben are both gay Latter-day Saints as well as authors published by Deseret Book. They host a podcast together called Questions from the Closet.
In this conversation, Ben and Charlie share a little bit about their backgrounds and faith, what “pride” really represents and why it’s important to them, their thoughts on the process of coming out to faithful friends and family, and how leaders, friends, and loved ones can be powerful allies to the LGBTQ community.
To give you just a little bit more background on these two: Ben works as an Honor Code administrator at BYU and as a therapist at Family Services in Provo, Utah. He holds three degrees from BYU and a PhD in second language acquisition and teaching from the University of Arizona. He serves as a lofty councilor in his stake.
Charlie was Cosmo the Cougar at Brigham Young University from to — and was the Cosmo from the original viral verb with the Cougarettes that was viewed over
Love Like Jesus with Ben Schilaty
Welcome to episode , Love Like Jesus with Ben Schilaty. Over 25 years ago when one of my siblings came out as gay while attending Brigham Juvenile University I searched the internet for answers, examples or even forums to openly and respectfully talk about this topic and I found nothing. Thankfully, today that’s changing a bit. And one individual who has contributed significantly in this space is my guest on today’s podcast, Ben Schilaty.
Whether you’re LGBTQ and wanting to notice from other church members about their experience or you want to absorb more to be a better ally. Today’s episode is just for you.
Welcome to Better Than Happy. I’m Jody Moore and I’ll be your coach today. Ben Schilaty is someone I have known via the internet, we are internet friends, for a while. We actually did meet in person last year at Charlie Bird’s book signing I think it was. But at any rate, I was so delighted when it finally worked out to get him onto the podcast because I have actually been following and learning from him for a very adj time and I just have so mu