An Evolving Kinship

In our first two episodes of the second season of Strangers No More, we explore the times and history around the Doctrine and Covenants 94 through 101.

With a much quicker pace than we had settled into for our first season, each episode is finished within 35 minutes, after exploring many topics around the Come Follow Me handbook suggested readings.

With the addition of Kate Mower’s segment, “Queering the Scriptures,” which allow for a deeper dive into the history of our canonized books, and Bradley Talbot’s “On The Record,” all of the hosts are learning and teaching one another at a rapid pace.

The first episode for our fall season is Zion is The Pure in Heart- Come Follow Me (Doctrine and Covenants 94-97) Strangers No More SNM S2 E1.

In this episode, the hosts discuss what it means to be “pure in heart.”


In our second episode of Season Two, a lively discussion starts about what kinship systems can mean after Maggie goes down a rabbit hole in a exploration of Doctrine and Covenants 99.

Be Still: Kinship & Murdock Family- Come Follow Me 2021 (D & C 98-101) Strangers No More SNM S2 E2 explores a bit of Murdock family history and extended kinship systems as they relate to polygamy.


Starting Season Two With Tears

As a show that speaks from a standpoint of LGBTQIA+ members in the Latter-days, the talk that Elder Jeffery R. Holland gave at BYU on August 23rd brought tears, confusion, and frustration into our midst. As a cast of four very different members of that particular community, we each reacted in our own manners to listening to and reading Elder Holland’s talk.

The result, for several days, was a need for distance from one another while we each sought guidance from God, on our knees, and while fasting.

The resulting production was a nearly hour-long discussion between all four cast members, recorded on the subsequent Saturday, that we recorded as our season two opener — special episode one.

We invite you to watch or listen to this episode (embedded below) at a time when you can appreciate the emotions that were felt when it was recorded.

We are sending out an abundance of love to all of you and hope that you will join us next week also as we begin our fall season of our Come Follow Me program that will feature not only the traditional class learning, as well as a segment from Bradley Talbot, “On The Record,” but also a segment from our new host, Kate Mower, (who is a historian), “Queering the Scriptures.”

Dennis will bring his convert energy and enthusiasm for the Gospel as we all will learn from one another. We will be attempting to keep season two’s episodes to a 30-minute timeline for the convenience of our audience.

Season Two Special Episode One

(Please excuse Maggie’s audio for the first 10 minutes of the episode-also we are always in search of an audio-video editor with experience-Maggie is a writer)

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐍𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐞, 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐲, 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭, 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 (𝐁𝐘𝐔) 𝐛𝐲 𝐄𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐉𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐑. 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐋𝐆𝐁𝐓𝐐𝐈𝐀+ 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬.

𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, “𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐭’𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, “𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝.” 🌟

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🌟𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐍𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭.🌟

𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬: 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐨𝐭, 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫, 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞

𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲: 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒊𝒆 𝑺𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆

𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰: “𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒆” 🌟
𝗔𝗿𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝙚𝙙 & 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮: 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡

🌟𝙎𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙉𝙤 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩🌟
🌟𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐋𝐆𝐁𝐓𝐐𝐈𝐀+ 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲.
𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡-𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫-𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬.❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍🌟

Here are a few quotes from S2 SE1:

Season One is Done

We have published our final episodes that were recorded this summer.

As a podcast and YouTube show, we stumbled a bit this summer, but we will be publishing content afresh in September with a new season and a slightely different format!

Producing a show from inspiration of revelation is an interesting concept. The producer (Maggie) and all of the hosts received revelation about a few significant changes in our show’s cast this summer and it took a bit to coordinate those revelations and understand what was happening.

We apologize for any confusion that spread to our audience this summer. We THANK YOU for sticking with us through those times and want to announce some big changes for the season ahead.

September will bring with it a new start for Strangers No More, with a slightly different format and a change in hosts!

We really appreciate Andrew Mair’s assistance in editing and hosting the first season. As his new job has added responsibilities, he has decided to leave as a regular host. We wish him all the best and have extended an invitation to him to join us for specials as he can.

Editing responsibilities have been transferred to Maggie Slighte, compiling the production and editing into one.

In September we will welcome our new host, a PhD Candidate in Romanian History, Kate Mower. Kate uses she/they/them pronouns and is allowing us all some important practice in using singular they/them pronouns!

We will be sharing a few short videos/podcasts of each of our Testimonies as an introduction for Season 2.

Please be on the lookout!

And finally, our logo has CHANGING slighte-ly 😊

Maggie has finished a new and updated logo for Strangers!

So much for the new

We’ve embedded the last episode from Season One below and invite you to please SUBSCRIBE and “hit the bell” so you are informed when we upload Season Two!!

Thank you so much for being a part of our Strangers family. We hope that your week ahead is full of the Love and Lighte of Jesus Christ.

We love all of you.