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
249 episodes
How to Have the Conversations You're Avoiding - A Conversation with Joseph Grenny
This week, we are so thrilled to bring you a conversation with Joseph Grenny. If you’ve ever read Crucial Conversations, Influencer, or Change Anything, then you already know the immense impact of Joseph’s work. His b...
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Episode 245
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The Power of Serving Together - A Conversation with Rebecca Glazier
Today, we’re excited to share our conversation with Dr. Rebecca Glazier, a Professor at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and author of the new book, Faith and Community: How Engagement Strengthens Me...
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Episode 244
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Gracing - A Conversation with Hannah Crowther
This week, we’re thrilled to share a conversation with Hannah Packard Crowther about her new book, Gracing, the latest release from Faith Matters Publishing. We love Hannah's profound wisdom, lyrical writing, and her invitation to reflect on gr...
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Episode 243
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Our Beautiful, Messy, Unfolding Story - A Conversation with Lisa Olsen Tait and Scott Hales
This week, we’re thrilled to share a conversation with Lisa Olsen Tait and Scott Hales, two of the historians and general editors behind Saints, the Church’s official history series. With the release of Volume 4 which covers the years of 1955 t...
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Episode 242
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Loving God & Neighbor - Jared Halverson
Today, we're bringing you a special episode recorded live from the Restore gathering, where we were joined by Jared Halverson. Jared, who’s become a familiar voice to many of us here, spoke on what he calls “contraries” or paradoxes that are in...
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Episode 241
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When Church is Hard - A Conversation with Tyler Johnson
Tyler Johnson is intimately familiar with suffering. He’s an oncologist who has sat with countless people in some of the most difficult moments of their lives, and in the final moments before their deaths. He’s been there as people have receive...
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Episode 240
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How Personal Peace Fuels Global Change - A Conversation with Thomas McConkie
We’re excited to share something special with you. Today we're featuring an episode from the Proclaim Peace Podcast because we were so touched by this powerful conversation that feels especially meaningful right now—with an election right aroun...
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Episode 239
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The Art & Science of Getting Happier - A Conversation with Arthur Brooks
This week, we’re honored to welcome Arthur Brooks to the podcast. Arthur is a renowned social scientist, Harvard professor, and bestselling author, and we’re excited to talk with him about his latest book,
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Episode 238
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How to Say I'm Sorry - A Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Thomas
In today’s episode, we’re talking with Dr. Jennifer Thomas, co-authored with Gary Chapman of The 5 Apology Languages: The Secret to Healthy Relationships. Dr. Thomas's work builds on the framework of the 5 Love Languages and offers a p...
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Episode 237
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How to Love your Enemies - A Conversation with Andrew Hanauer
This week, we’re sharing a beautiful and timely conversation between Faith Matters’ executive director Zach Davis and Andrew Hanauer, the founder and CEO of the One America Movement, an organization...
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Episode 236
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46:59
235. Partners in a Prophetic Mission - Eboo Patel
For today’s episode, we’re bringing you another powerful moment from our Restore gathering. Eboo Patel joined us to explore a compelling and deeply hopeful vision for what it means to build a loving, spiritually rich community where different f...
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Episode 235
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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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