Faith Matters
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.
Episodes
238 episodes
234. Women at Church - 10 Years Later
We have decided to share with you 2-3 sessions from our recent Restore gathering to give you a taste of what took place during this amazing weekend. Last week we shared Joseph Grenny’s incredible message. It was an instant classic. . Toda...
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Episode 234
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233. The Honest Truth about Messy Families - A Conversation with Joseph Grenny
This week, we’re going to share what we think was an “instant classic” from last week’s Restore Gathering; a deeply personal and thought-provoking message about family, faith, and the complexity of life from Joseph Grenny, author of Crucial Con...
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Episode 233
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232. Why Restore? - A Conversation with Zach Davis, Peggy Fletcher Stack, and David Noyce
Today is the start of this year’s Restore! We look forward to seeing those of you who are attending! This week we’re departing from our normal format and sharing a recent conversation of the MormonLand podcast, between the Salt Lake Tribune’s P...
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Episode 232
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231. - The God of Friday - A Conversation with Patrick Mason
This week, we’re sitting down with our good friend Patrick Mason for a conversation that is as deeply challenging. Patrick recently returned from a transformative trip to Rwanda, where he was confronted with the enduring impact of the 1994 geno...
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Episode 231
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230. Infinite Ways to God - A Conversation with David Butler
This week, we’re thrilled to be joined by our friend, David Butler. You may know David from his incredible podcast, Don’t Miss This, where he and Grace Freeman dive deeply into the scriptures with an infectious joy and thoughtful insights. We’r...
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Episode 230
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229. The Soloists - A Conversation with Mallory Everton & Diana Brown
Today, we’re thrilled to welcome Mallory Everton–a comedian, actor, and writer–and Diana Brown–the new Associate Director for Faith Matters, to the podcast. We’re diving into a conversation that’s often overlooked but so important—being single ...
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Episode 229
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228. Duty vs. Desire in Marriage - A Conversation with Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
This week, we're thrilled to welcome back Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, a renowned therapist specializing in relationship and sexuality counseling within the Latter-day Saint community. We’re super excited that Jennifer has a new book coming out...
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Episode 228
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227. The Counter-culture of Commitment - A Conversation with Pete Davis
This week, we are re-releasing a conversation with Pete Davis. In 2018, Pete Davis was graduating from Harvard Law School and was chosen to give a commencement address that ended up going unexpectedly viral, having now been viewed over 30 milli...
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Episode 227
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Fully Alive - A Conversation with Elizabeth Oldfield
Today, we’re sharing a beautiful conversation between writer and thinker Elizabeth Oldfield and Zachary Davis. Elizabeth is the author of Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times and host of the podcast, “Sacred”. <...
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Episode 227
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Life after Doom - A Conversation with Brian McLaren
This week, we're bringing you a special episode with Brian Mclaren on his new book, Life after Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart. Though we recorded this conversation weeks ago, it feels especially timely now in light ...
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Episode 226
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225. The Call to be in the World - A Conversation with Astrid Tuminez
Today, we're resharing an interview we loved with Astrid Tuminez, who we're excited to be hosting as a speaker at Restore this year. Astrid is the President of Utah Valley University and an absolute delight to talk with and listen to. She’s ful...
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Episode 225
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224. Not Fearing Others' Faith Journeys - A Conversation with Valerie Hamaker
Today, we’re thrilled to welcome therapist and podcaster Valerie Hamaker.In his book Falling Upward, Franciscan priest Richard Rohr uses the metaphor of a container to elaborate on what he calls “the two halves of life.” The fir...
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Episode 224
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223. Freedom from the Burden of Judging - A Conversation with Michael Wilcox (Part 2)
This is part two of our conversation with Michael Wilcox, and if you haven’t heard part one yet, it helps set up some important context for this episode. This is really not an interview so much as a story Michael tells: the story of his father,...
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Episode 223
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222. Freedom from the Burden of Judging - A Conversation with Michael Wilcox (Part 1)
This week, we're thrilled to welcome back Dr. Michael Wilcox to the podcast. Michael is an esteemed author and longtime Institute teacher, and his previous episodes, which we released in two parts as "God's Many Voices" in episodes 85 and 86, h...
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Episode 222
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221. The Amen Effect - A Conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous
This week, we are honored to share with you a conversation with Rabbi Sharon Brous, author of the The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World. From the moment we started reading Sharon’s book, we knew that she h...
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220. Pioneering Peace - A Conversation with Eboo Patel
This week, we’re sharing an episode from Proclaim Peace, a podcast we proudly co-sponsor in collaboration with Mormon Women for Ethical Government. Proclaim Peace is h...
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219. What's the Future of Women at Church? A Conversation with Neylan McBaine and Bethany Brady Spalding
This week we’re bringing you a conversation on a subject that we’re always thinking about, but that has taken on a special urgency over the last two months—the role of women in the Church. A large survey recently released showed a s...
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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 exhibit...
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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 <...
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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,
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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 eventu...
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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 importan...
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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 publ...
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212. Is God Disappointed in Me? — A Conversation with Kurt Francom
This week, we’re bringing you an interview with Kurt Francom, author of a new book titled, Is God Disappointed in Me? Removing Shame from a Gospel of Grace. It seems to us that culturally, Latter-day Saints don’t usually imagine an ang...
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211. Come As You Are — A Conversation with Jen and Sam Norton
We’re excited to bring you an episode with a genuine ‘lift-where-you-stand story’ of a family in the UK. Sam and Jen Norton have served young people in the church for more than twenty years and most recently as FSY Session Directors in Londo...
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