Subscribe to our new Substack!It’s just us this week—Mallory and Diana—for an introspective end-of-year conversation. We ask ourselves Where did the Soloists come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? and how we’ve changed since coming together to work on this project. We also share love from listeners: emails, DMs, and reviews that crack open what it means to live courageously with major parts of our lives unsettled.

If you’ve been listening a while, you’ll have noticed that the two of us love to discuss the experience of being on the margins of an already-marginal religion. In part this is because our religious identities profoundly shape our social and romantic lives and its useful to talk about. But its also because we believe that the places where we feel most odd, misunderstood, and rejected by the world also offer the keys to understanding, forgiving, and finding love within it.

Here, we discuss how we find Christ in the gritty, awkward experience of bearing a “mormon” identity in the world (which is the name many still know and call us by, despite the Church’s preferences.) Similarly, Christ can be found smack dab inside the sore spots of the soloist life.

Finally, we have an announcement! We just shifted platforms over to Substack where we can have more two-way conversations with listeners. You’ll here more about it in this episode. Subscribe to join us.

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