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Conversations with Terryl Givens

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 Swimming in Deep Waters – A Conversation with Margaret Blair Young - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 59:25

Margaret Blair Young is an American author and filmmaker. She also taught for thirty years at Brigham Young University. She’s written with Darius Grey about early black Latter-day Saints and her latest project is a film about more recent black converts in Africa. The film is called Heart of Africa. Young is also a swimmer. And swimming has become a powerful metaphor for her life. Fresh off the plane after her most recent stay in DR Congo, Blair sits down with Terryl Givens to talk about the Church in Congo, faith transformation, spiritual healing, and more.

 Surprising Angels | A Conversation with Brian Kershisnik - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:07

In this episode, Terryl Givens sits down with LDS artist Brian Kershisnik.

 Surprising Angels | A Conversation with Brian Kershisnik - Video | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 57:07

In this episode, Terryl Givens sits down with LDS artist Brian Kershisnik.

 Risk-taking Discipleship | Thomas Rogers - Video | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 50:30

Risk-taking Discipleship | Thomas Rogers - Video

 Risk-taking Discipleship | Thomas Rogers - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:30

Risk-taking Discipleship | Thomas Rogers - Audio

 The God Who Marvels | Steve Peck - Video | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 54:50

The God Who Marvels | Steve Peck - Video

 The God Who Marvels | Steve Peck - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:50

The God Who Marvels | Steve Peck - Audio

 Can Creation Heal Us? | George Handley - Video | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 52:55

For George Handley, both our physical and spiritual natures are inseparably connected with the natural world. An important aspect of the Restoration, according to Handley, is restoring our awareness of this connection, treasuring that connection in our hearts and minds and allowing it to heal us. In his memoir Home Waters,  Dr.  Handley writes of his passion for creation this way: “Earth is an odd place to find myself, and this oddness is precisely what makes it so intoxicating. This is a onetime affair, never to be repeated again, and I want all of it.” In this Conversation, Terryl Givens and George Handley explore how we can enrich our spiritual lives as disciples of Christ through love and care for the natural world that surrounds and supports us. A popular Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University, George B. Handley’s creative writing, literary criticism, and civic engagement focus on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment.   Links: American Fork (novel by George Handley) Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (George Handley) What do Mormons Believe about Caring for the Environment? (Mormon Newsroom) Elder Marcus B. Nash’s address on Environmental Stewardship

 Can Creation Heal Us? | George Handley - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:55

For George Handley, both our physical and spiritual natures are inseparably connected with the natural world. An important aspect of the Restoration, according to Handley, is restoring our awareness of this connection, treasuring that connection in our hearts and minds and allowing it to heal us. In his memoir Home Waters,  Dr.  Handley writes of his passion for creation this way: “Earth is an odd place to find myself, and this oddness is precisely what makes it so intoxicating. This is a onetime affair, never to be repeated again, and I want all of it.” In this Conversation, Terryl Givens and George Handley explore how we can enrich our spiritual lives as disciples of Christ through love and care for the natural world that surrounds and supports us. A popular Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University, George B. Handley’s creative writing, literary criticism, and civic engagement focus on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment.   Links: American Fork (novel by George Handley) Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (George Handley) What do Mormons Believe about Caring for the Environment? (Mormon Newsroom) Elder Marcus B. Nash’s address on Environmental Stewardship

 Extraordinary Women in Mormon History | Kate Holbrook - Video | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 01:00:52

Kate Holbrook is known to friends, neighbors and family first as a wonderful cook and gentlefriend. In the intellectual world, she is know as an accomplished historian and author. Sheearned her master’s degree in world religions from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD inreligion and society from Boston University. She was voted Harvard College’s Teaching Fellowof the Year for a course she designed on global values. She now serves as managing historianfor Women’s History for the LDS church. In this wide-ranging conversation with Terryl Givens, Kate talks about her faith and her personal story. She highlights the importance of telling the LDS story from the perspective of its women. Does discipleship look different from a woman’s perspective than from a man’s? She talks about her heroes, including Ardith Kapp. And she talks about the effect the Relief Society (“God’s quorum for women”) has had in shaping the church. LDS church history “needs to be told in a way that integrates what men were doing with whatwomen were doing,” Holbrook says. And not just what Mormon women were doing, but what they were teaching and preaching. Kate recently co-edited an extraordinary volume titled “At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women.” “At the Pulpit” features 54 speeches by LDS women over the entire history of the church, complete with important historical context provided by Holbrook and fellow co-editor Jennifer Reeder. “After years of basso profundo comes another sound out of the Mormon tradition, the voice ofwomen preaching. It is a pleasure to hear…” writes Mormon scholar Kathleen Flake.

 Extraordinary Women in Mormon History | Kate Holbrook - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:52

Kate Holbrook is known to friends, neighbors and family first as a wonderful cook and gentlefriend. In the intellectual world, she is know as an accomplished historian and author. Sheearned her master’s degree in world religions from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD inreligion and society from Boston University. She was voted Harvard College’s Teaching Fellowof the Year for a course she designed on global values. She now serves as managing historianfor Women’s History for the LDS church. In this wide-ranging conversation with Terryl Givens, Kate talks about her faith and her personal story. She highlights the importance of telling the LDS story from the perspective of its women. Does discipleship look different from a woman’s perspective than from a man’s? She talks about her heroes, including Ardith Kapp. And she talks about the effect the Relief Society (“God’s quorum for women”) has had in shaping the church. LDS church history “needs to be told in a way that integrates what men were doing with whatwomen were doing,” Holbrook says. And not just what Mormon women were doing, but what they were teaching and preaching. Kate recently co-edited an extraordinary volume titled “At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women.” “At the Pulpit” features 54 speeches by LDS women over the entire history of the church, complete with important historical context provided by Holbrook and fellow co-editor Jennifer Reeder. “After years of basso profundo comes another sound out of the Mormon tradition, the voice ofwomen preaching. It is a pleasure to hear…” writes Mormon scholar Kathleen Flake.

 The Genesis of Change | Darius Gray - Video | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 01:00:19

Darius Gray is an author and historian who has had a wide and varied career in television broadcasting, publishing, business management and church leadership.  Raised in a devout Christian home, Gray converted to the LDS faith during the time of the Priesthood ban for black members. His commitment to a church that for years denied him full participation is a story of testimony, hope, courage and perseverance.  Working with other pioneering black Mormons and with LDS Apostles, Gray helped found the Genesis Group in Salt Lake City, the church’s official congregational unit for black Latter-day Saints. For many years, he served as its President.  As a historian and genealogist, Darius Gray headed up the massive Freedmen’s Savings and Trust research project, which yielded the records of nearly half a million individuals, mostly African Americans. These names were then made available for temple ordinance work.  Darius sits down with Terryl Givens to tell these and other remarkable stories in this conversation.

 The Genesis of Change | Darius Gray - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:00:19

Darius Gray is an author and historian who has had a wide and varied career in television broadcasting, publishing, business management and church leadership.  Raised in a devout Christian home, Gray converted to the LDS faith during the time of the Priesthood ban for black members. His commitment to a church that for years denied him full participation is a story of testimony, hope, courage and perseverance.  Working with other pioneering black Mormons and with LDS Apostles, Gray helped found the Genesis Group in Salt Lake City, the church’s official congregational unit for black Latter-day Saints. For many years, he served as its President.  As a historian and genealogist, Darius Gray headed up the massive Freedmen’s Savings and Trust research project, which yielded the records of nearly half a million individuals, mostly African Americans. These names were then made available for temple ordinance work.  Darius sits down with Terryl Givens to tell these and other remarkable stories in this conversation.

 A Disciple’s Plea for Openness and Inclusion | Elder Marlin K. Jensen - Video | File Type: video/mp4 | Duration: 57:23

During his 24 years as a beloved LDS General Authority and Official Church Historian, Elder Marlin K. Jensen presided over an historic shift toward greater openness in the LDS church’s approach to its history. In this Conversation with Terryl Givens, we get an intimate glimpse into Elder Jensen’s personal life and thoughts, including: How loving and serving his older brother instilled a determination to include “those who are different” The spiritual experiences that led him to consecrate his life to serving in the church His wish for more “overtly spiritual” church experience How our spiritual lives can be enriched by people, practices and writings from other religious traditions The challenges and the fruits of complete openness and transparency in telling the history of the church The urgent need to embrace those who are different or “don’t meet the norm” in the church His stirring witness of Christ An attorney by profession who is more at home on the ranch, Elder Jensen became one of the public faces of Mormonism during what came to be called the “Mormon Moment.” He was featured prominently on the 2007 PBS series The Mormons.  Under his direction as church historian, dramatic advances were made in church history, including creation of the Joseph Smith Papers project, construction of the new Church History Museum next to Temple Square, and greater access to scholars on a number of fronts. Terryl Givens once wrote of Elder Jensen: "Marlin Jensen has done more to further the cause of Mormon history than any person of the current generation."

 A Disciple’s Plea for Openness and Inclusion | Elder Marlin K. Jensen - Audio | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 57:23

During his 24 years as a beloved LDS General Authority and Official Church Historian, Elder Marlin K. Jensen presided over an historic shift toward greater openness in the LDS church’s approach to its history. In this Conversation with Terryl Givens, we get an intimate glimpse into Elder Jensen’s personal life and thoughts, including: How loving and serving his older brother instilled a determination to include “those who are different” The spiritual experiences that led him to consecrate his life to serving in the church His wish for more “overtly spiritual” church experience How our spiritual lives can be enriched by people, practices and writings from other religious traditions The challenges and the fruits of complete openness and transparency in telling the history of the church The urgent need to embrace those who are different or “don’t meet the norm” in the church His stirring witness of Christ An attorney by profession who is more at home on the ranch, Elder Jensen became one of the public faces of Mormonism during what came to be called the “Mormon Moment.” He was featured prominently on the 2007 PBS series The Mormons.  Under his direction as church historian, dramatic advances were made in church history, including creation of the Joseph Smith Papers project, construction of the new Church History Museum next to Temple Square, and greater access to scholars on a number of fronts. Terryl Givens once wrote of Elder Jensen: "Marlin Jensen has done more to further the cause of Mormon history than any person of the current generation."

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