Faith Matters Faith Matters Foundation
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- Religion & Spirituality
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Faith Matters offers an expansive view of the Restored Gospel, thoughtful exploration of big and sometimes thorny questions, and a platform that encourages deeper engagement with our faith and our world. We focus on the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) tradition, but believe we have much to learn from other traditions and fully embrace those of other beliefs.
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218. A New Book Every Time - A Conversation with Bob Rees
This week, we're excited to have Bob Rees on the podcast. Bob is a true "long-haul hero" (to use Pete Davis's term) -- a Latter-day Saint who has been studying and writing on Latter-day Saint topics for more than fifty years. To us, Bob exhibits the best of what we have to offer theologically, and practically, to the world. Bob believes that the deepest power of the Book of Mormon, even more than its remarkable origin story, is its ultimate message of love. After a lifetime of serious st...
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217. Surveying the Saints — A Conversation with Josh Coates
This week, we’re sharing a fascinating conversation we had with Josh Coates, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of the BH Roberts Foundation. The BH Roberts Foundation is the non-profit behind Mormonr, a producer of Latter-day Saint media that tackles hard questions about the faith, as well as "LDSBot," an AI-driven chatbot that is able to handle just about any question about Latter-day Saint culture and theology shockingly well. In February of this year, Josh and his collea...
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216. Big Stories, Little Saints — A Conversation with Sarah and Josh Sabey
We're so excited to have Sarah and Josh Sabey on the podcast this week. Sarah and Josh are writers, filmmakers, and spouses. Their films cover important issues in non-polarizing ways. Their first film, American Tragedy, reached the top ten most watched films on Amazon Prime. Their latest project is called The Book of Mormon Storybook for Little Saints. It's a beautiful 2-volume collection of 50 Book of Mormon stories, adapted for children and their parents. They write that the prima...
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215. Finding the Still Point in Tension — John Kesler and Thomas McConkie
This week we’re joined by our good friend and contributor to Faith Matters, Thomas McConkie, along with his longtime mentor and friend, John Kesler.In many ways, Thomas and John's paths were mirror images of each other until they eventually collided. John Kesler developed an awareness and life practice called IPP or Integral Polarity Practice that has had a profound impact on Thomas's life. You're going hear a little about polarities or fundamental tensions of human development and how in fin...
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214. Gathering All Safely In — A Conversation with Liz and Jordon Sharp
**Disclaimer that this episode mentions suicide in connection to LGBTQ youth. If you are not in a place to listen right now, you might want to skip this one. If you are, though, we really encourage you to listen on this tough but important topic that impacts so many in our community.**In this conversation, Dr. Jordon and Liz Sharp from St. George, Utah, shared their remarkable and inspiring story of moving from trauma, confusion, and loss to miracles, enlightenment, and strength as an L...
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213. Leading Deseret Book — A Conversation with Laurel Day
We’re really excited to share this episode with you. It was with someone we’ve wanted to talk to for a very long time — Deseret Book president Laurel Christensen Day. We knew from afar that she was a trailblazing leader and a thoughtful publisher — and we were not surprised to find that as we got to know her a little bit that she’s a woman of deep faith as well. Uniformly, everyone we have ever spoken with who has had a chance to work with Laurel absolutely loves her.We’ve always been fascina...
Customer Reviews
Must listen if you value nuance as an LDS member
I love the perspectives of the various guests on the podcast. As someone who exists on the inside of the edge of the LDS faith I really love how Tim and Aubrey approach the nuance found in trying to maintain membership in the church but hold to those ideals that sometimes feel like they grate against Church teaching. The Grant Hardy episode entitled "Tough Love from the Book of Mormon," is a personal favorite, as are any of the Patrick Mason episodes. I highly recommend this podcast to those who are more heterodox members of the LDS Church.
Inactive LDS, but LOVE Faith Matters
I am a devout Christian, but I stopped being active in the LDS church in my late 20s, I am now 43 with a beautiful Christian family and we are devout. I found my journey taking a slight turn in my late 20s when I was meeting my husband. We were able to find a home in a local Christian church and it has been an amazing experience. I still feel at my core, I am a latter-day saint, I just know God needed me to, take a little detour on my journey for the trajectory of my life. These faith matters podcasts have been the biggest blessing in my life. They have been such a beautiful resource with so many soul expanding, thought provoking gems. I am so grateful to have come across this podcast and feel closer to heavenly father and Jesus because of it. Thank you, Tim and Aubrey and the whole Faith Matters team.
A true gem
What a gift your podcast has been to me. I often find myself recommending it to others. I was particularly struck by the Come as you are episode. I keep on waiting for you to interview Fatima Salah and Margaret Olsen Hemming about their Book of Mormon For the Least of These series. I love your podcast and I love these books and would be thrilled to have them come together. It seems like such a perfect fit as we are studying the Book of Mormon this year.