{"id":580,"date":"2021-08-02T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2021-11-09T16:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:45:43","slug":"listen-learn-love-book-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Listen, Learn &#038; Love book TWO!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/listen-learn-and-love-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/listen-learn-and-love-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/listen-learn-and-love-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/listen-learn-and-love-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/listen-learn-and-love-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/listen-learn-and-love.png 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Ostler has produced a second <em>Listen, Learn &amp; Love<\/em> book and it went to the publisher today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first one was <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deseretbook.com\/products?query=listen%2520learn%2520and%2520love&amp;variant_id=189035-paperback\">Listen, Learn &amp; Love: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints<\/a><\/em>. I was the line editor and proofreader for that manuscript, and it was released in September 2020. The last thing I did on that project was proof the audiobook against the written manuscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About two weeks later, Richard emailed me about a second manuscript &#8211; <em>Listen, Learn &amp; Love: Improving Latter-day Saint Culture<\/em>. There are similarities in the style of the two books &#8211; his scriptural commentary with submitted personal stories and comments from other contributors. But this one expanded out to cover more topics, such as not judging missionaries if they don&#8217;t serve the &#8220;traditional&#8221; two years away from home, not basing people&#8217;s value (including our own) on which leadership positions they do or don&#8217;t serve within, not judging people&#8217;s clothing or social media posts, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone asked what the first book was about, and I said, &#8220;In one sentence: don&#8217;t be a jerk to gay people.&#8221; Now the second book is &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a jerk. At all. To Anyone.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My current church service (yes, in leadership) has focused on BUILDING ZION: developing love and unity within our congregations and communities. Both of these books are how-to manuals on building Zion, and it&#8217;s actually kind of sad that they are desperately needed. I personally think that we should be better than these books seem to indicate, but since we&#8217;re not, I&#8217;m grateful for kind people like Richard to teach us how to do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Ostler has produced a second Listen, Learn &amp; Love book and it went to the publisher today! The first one was Listen, Learn &amp; Love: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints. I was the line editor and proofreader for that manuscript, and it was released in September 2020. The last thing I did on that project<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/?p=580\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Listen, Learn &#038; Love book TWO!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,16],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-portfolio","tag-reading-list","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryhouseediting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}