125. Proving Polarities — A Conversation with Jared Halverson

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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For today’s episode, we’re really excited to bring on Jared Halverson. Jared shares with us a really important concept he calls “proving contraries,” —something we’ve talked a little bit about on the podcast before using the term “polarities.” He spoke with us about how recognizing these polarities can help us understand our own strengths and weaknesses, how attributes that are positive, taken too far, almost always become problematic, and how wrestling with contraries is essential in a life ...

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, this is Patrick Mason.
0:03.6	Last year's Restore Gathering was one of the highlights of my year, and this year's
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0:22.0	in Sandy, Utah.
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0:29.1	Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
0:32.1	For today's episode, we're really excited to bring on Jared Halverson.
0:35.6	Jared is an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University and has
0:39.0	taught religion courses at the high school and college levels since 1998.
0:43.0	He studied history and religious education at BYU and earned a PhD in American Religious
0:47.2	History at Vanderbilt University, focusing on secularization, faith loss, and anti-religious
0:51.9	rhetoric.
0:52.9	He's frequently involved with interfaith dialogue and has been featured as a speaker in both
0:56.6	devotional and academic settings across the country.
0:59.4	He also hosts a popular YouTube channel and podcast called Unshaken.
1:03.0	We're also really excited that Jared will be speaking at Restore.
1:06.0	Faith Matters gathering taking place in October.
1:08.2	You can find out more about that at faithmatters.org slash restore.
1:12.2	We brought Jared on to talk about a really important concept that he sometimes calls
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