101. Keith Erekson | Questions and Doubt, Answers and Peace

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

If you have chosen to live a life of faith in Jesus Christ, it is likely you will experience times when your faith is challenged. Church historian and author Keith Erekson joins us to discuss how faithful women and men throughout history have grappled with doubts and questions, and how we can find peace, light and understanding during times of challenge when we seek to truly commune with God. Keith shares how each person's struggle with questions and doubt is individual, and how finding peace and answers is also individual, ultimately made possible by the Holy Ghost, the great "individualizer." Keith also shares useful counsel for those struggling to help their loved ones find answers to their questions. The best advice? Listen and love, and trust in your own witness of the truth. Transcript: https://media.ldscdn.org/pdf/2021-03-0101-101-keith-erekson-questions-and-doubt-answers-and-peace-eng.pdf

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:11.6	You'll get to know the faithful women who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women and men of faith today.
0:16.7	I'm Carly Geiman.
0:17.9	And I'm Shailen Back. We're your co-hosts.
0:20.0	Today we're excited to welcome Keith Erickson to the podcast, who is here with us in the studio today in Salt Lake City.
0:26.2	Keith, welcome.
0:27.0	Thank you.
0:27.5	I'm so glad to be here.
0:28.9	Well, and we're just so fortunate to be able to meet in person, despite so many COVID restrictions lately.
0:33.7	We get to safely distance, and we're excited that we get to have this conversation in person.
0:38.7	So thank you. Just as a brief introduction to our guest, Keith Erickson grew up in Baltimore,
0:43.6	Maryland. He got a bachelor's and master's degree from BYU, a doctoral degree in history from
0:49.5	Indiana University, and he has a master of business administration from the University of Texas at El Paso.
0:55.5	He's an author, a teacher, and a historian who currently works in the church history department
1:00.0	with outreach and special initiatives, and he also sits on the editorial board of the church
1:05.4	historians' press. Keith, will you just share with us some of the projects that you're maybe
1:10.5	working on right now?
1:11.8	Sure. I have kind of a charge right now to help our department, the church history department,
1:17.8	get the word out more about things that we do. So we've kind of had a habit of publishing a book
1:22.8	and then publishing another book and then publishing another book. And so my job is to say,
1:27.3	hey, who could
1:27.9	benefit from this and where can we find them and how can we help connect with them in a way
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