Your ultimate guide to navigating a faith crisis

Descriptions:

Jared Halverson, a professional religious educator, joins us to talk about faith crisis, engaging with faith questions, and establishing spiritual experiences. If you have had faith questions or have been struggling with conversations about your faith, this episode is for you. This is one of our favorite scholar interviews! Thanks so much for joining us, Jared!

0:00 – Introduction
1:50 – Jared’s academic background and career
5:00 – Reacting to new “anti-Mormon” content; anti-faith content
6:00 – Deception
6:40 – Prophecy from Jesus Christ
9:08 – Is “turning the other cheek” always the answer?
11:05 – Humor and showing a different approach
12:30 – Engaging with those in faith crisis
14:00 – Seeking to understand and diffusing the bomb
18:20 – What approach do you take with people in a faith crisis?
19:37 – Understanding the stages of faith – Creation, Fall, Atonement
23:02 – Reach out and talk
23:45 – Curiosity and judgment – personal story
26:08 – Fighting on both sides
27:22 – Reframing your relationship with those who have left
29:28 – Clinging to the rod of iron; Lehi’s dream
32:18 – The P’s
33:10 – Marveling at God
34:30 – “Why do you do this?”
36:32 – The worth of souls
38:00 – Father with paternal regard with ample provision
39:40 – Temptations
41:11 – Zion – One heart, one mind
42:50 – Common questions but is it yours?
45:50 – Helpless chicks
49:22 – Experience with God