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
316 episodes
Choosing Community over Ideological Purity: Lessons from Exponent II with Katie Ludlow Rich & Heather Sundahl
Hey everyone, this is Aubrey Chaves from Faith Matters. Today I’m excited to share my conversation with Katie Ludlow Rich and Heather Sundahl about
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Jeff Strong: Un-Sifting the Saints
We’ve all heard it called a sifting—the language that sometimes surfaces when someone is struggling or steps away from the Church. Wheat from tares, sheep from goats, a sorting in the last days that reveals truly elect.But today, our go...
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An Inconvenient Faith: Robert Reynolds and Patrick Mason
Today we’re joined by our friend Patrick Mason and filmmaker Robert Reynolds. Rob is the director and producer of the new docu-series An Inconvenient Faith—a project that’s alrea...
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A Deeper Look at the Creation Story: an episode of Sanctuary with Jared Lambert
Today, we want to introduce you to another podcast in the Faith Matters Podcast Network called Sanctuary: Discovering the Temple, hosted by Larkin Swain. Larkin brings a candid, curious, and ...
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Finding Nourishment in the Old Testament, with Sarah and Josh Sabey
Today we’re sharing a conversation with writers and filmmakers Sarah and Josh Sabey about their new project, The Bible Storybook, a two volume collection of 50 stories from the Old Te...
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Let's Talk About Money, with Carl Richards
Today we’re bringing you a conversation with Carl Richards, and we think this one might just change the way you think—and feel—about money.You might know Carl as The Sketch Guy from his decade-long New York Times column, where h...
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In the Bleak Midwinter, by Peter Conti-Brown
As we move into Christmas week, we wanted to offer something a little different. Today’s episode is a reading of “In the Bleak Midwinter,”<...
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The Four Tendencies with Gretchen Rubin
Today, we’re thrilled to share a conversation with New York Times bestselling author and happiness expert Gretchen Rubin, where we explored one of her most practical and game-changing frameworks:
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Rooting Out “It Was Right for Its Time” : Paul Reeve and Ramesus Stewart-Johnson
Today, in light of the upcoming Come Follow Me lesson which co...
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Advent: A Season of Sacred Longing, with Cecelia Proffit
Today, we’re so excited to share a conversation with our good friend and teammate at Faith Matters, Cece Proffit. If you’ve followed Faith Matters for a while, you’ve felt Cece’s influence—her energy, creativity, and care shape so much of what ...
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Humor as Wisdom: Mallory Everton at Restore
Today we are so excited to share a session from this year’s Restore Gathering with Mallory Everton. Mallory is best known for her work on the sketch comedy show Studio C,...
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The Prophet and the Priest, with Matt Bowman
We’re really excited to share this week’s episode with you—a conversation with scholar and historian, Matt Bowman. Matt is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and an associate professor of religion and history at Claremont ...
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"Truth and Treason" with filmmaker Matt Whitaker
Today we’re bringing you a special live episode recorded at the Compass Gallery in Provo with filmmaker Matt Whitaker.Matt is the director and one of the writers and producers of the new film Truth & Treason, which tells the...
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Unpacking Polygamy: Wrestling with 132, with Bethany Brady Spalding, Patrick Mason, and Bill Turnbull
Today we’re wrapping up our week of Unpacking Polygamy with a very honest, illuminating and challenging conversation among three faithful friends: Bethany Brady Spaulding, Patrick Mason and Bill Turnbull. Together, they tackle the profound theo...
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Unpacking Polygamy: The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy, with Carol Lynn Pearson
Today we’re joined by Carol Lynn Pearson—poet, playwright, and author of The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy.With extraordinary honesty, clarity, and compassion, Carol Lynn sha...
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Unpacking Polygamy: Polygamy from Nauvoo to Utah, with Brittany Chapman Nash & Patrick Mason
Today we’re welcoming back Patrick Mason for a conversation with author and historian Brittany Chapman Nash.In this episode, Patrick and Brittany explore what plural marriage looked like in the early Utah period—how it was lived, how it ...
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Unpacking Polygamy: Our Evolving Sealing Practices, with Nate Oman
Today, we’re honored to welcome Nate Oman—law professor, scholar, and co-founder of the pioneering Latter-day Saint blog, Times and Seasons.Our conversation begins with a bold idea: that experiencing a stupor of thought, or bein...
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Unpacking Polygamy: Joseph Smith's Polygamy, with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich & Patrick Mason
Today’s episode kicks off our five-part series Unpacking Polygamy—a deep dive into one of the most complex and sensitive topics in our church’s history. We hope you’ll listen to the full series, where you’ll hear from a variety of voices and pe...
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Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: A Conversation with Sharon Eubank
Today, we’re sharing a conversation that feels especially urgent. In fact, we’d planned to release this episode later in the month—but this week, as a major hurricane moves through the Caribbean and the U.S. government shutdown is causing massi...
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Faith on the Frontier of AI: A Conversation with Medlir Mema
Today, we’re bringing you what we think is one of the most important conversations we could be having right now. We’re talking with our friend and scholar Medlir Mema about artificial intelligence—and what it means for people of faith.No...
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The Spiritual Practice of Speaking Up: A Conversation with Cynthia Winward & Susan M. Hinckley
We sometimes reduce “faith-promoting” stories to those tidy endings—where miracles show up just in time, doubts vanish, and testimony replaces tension. But sometimes growth begins when the script falls apart. For Susan Meredith Hinckley and Cyn...
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The Last Book Written By a Human — a conversation with Jeff Burningham
Today, we’re sharing a conversation with Jeff Burningham—entrepreneur, former candidate for governor, and now author of a new book called The Last Book Written by a Human.This conversation begins with an unforgettable scene Jeff witness...
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How to Love Your Enemy: Arthur Brooks at Restore 2025
Today we’re sharing Arthur Brooks’ keynote from Restore this last weekend. This message was so powerful—it will stop you in your tracks, and feels so essential for this exact moment. We belie...
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Peacemaking and Discipleship: A Live Conversation from Proclaim Peace with Jennifer Thomas and Chad Ford
This week, we’re sharing a special live episode of Proclaim Peace recorded in person at the Compass Gallery on P...
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Loving Your Neighbor: Jared Halverson at Restore 2024
This week, we're bringing you a special episode recorded live from the Restore gathering in 2024, where we were joined by Jared Halverson. This one one of my very favorite topics to hear Jared talk about. His session was on what he calls “contr...
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