1. Faith, Family, and Discipleship as a Gay Mormon - Terryl Givens with Tom Christofferson

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🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Tom Christofferson’s journey through life has been anything but ordinary. On the surface, it began as a typical Mormon story. He grew up in a close gospel-centered LDS family and went on to serve a faithful mission. But during these years, he was also trying to deal with an inconvenient truth: He was gay. Although his life and family had been firmly rooted in the church (his older brother Todd was eventually called as an LDS apostle), Tom came to a point at which he could no longer envision a...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, before we get started I just wanted to let you know that the first book from Faith Matters publishing is now available.
0:06.0	It's called All Things New and was written by Fiona and Terrell Givens.
0:09.0	When I finished the book, I just thought this has so much potential to actually change lives. They go
0:14.8	through and trace the roots of our religious vocabulary and show how so many of
0:18.6	these words have become totally unmoored from their original foundation and
0:21.8	how a lot of those traditions have been
0:24.1	carried forward for hundreds and even thousands of years and are in a lot of ways still damaging
0:28.5	us today.
0:29.5	And then they dive into how we can reformulate our language in healthy and inspiring ways. This book is so
0:34.3	healing, it's hopeful, it's a totally paradigm shifting book that you will not be able to
0:38.4	put down. You can pick up a copy for yourself or for friends and family. It's available
0:42.4	at Desert Book on Amazon, Audible and
0:44.8	Apple Books. We're so grateful for Terrell and Fiona and all of the amazing work that
0:48.4	they've done here. All right that's all for the book for now but we have a lot more
0:51.4	to come. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:54.9	Tom Christophason's journey through life has been anything but ordinary.
1:00.0	An accomplished businessman, brother of an LDS apostle and now author.
1:05.6	His new book, That We May Be One, A Gay Woman's Perspective on Faith and Family,
1:11.6	includes a story of finding a spiritual home in a faith that
1:15.8	often doesn't feel like a critical mass really of members of the church who are praying earnestly that the
1:35.8	Lord will reveal more.
1:37.8	And I think you only get to that point if your heart's open, right?
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