Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore

a Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th.

It's going to be at the Amount and America Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be

an exceptional conference.

I attended last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening

to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling

a deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our

shared desire to speak to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a sense

of connection.

I'm also going to be one of the people speaking.

I'll be speaking a bit about eros energy and its connection to spirituality and to the

light of Christ.

And so I hope to see you all there.

Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.

In the past few decades, scholarship on the New Testament has opened up exciting new ways

of understanding the context of early followers of Jesus and it's enabled new interpretations

of the text that they wrote.

One of the leading scholars advancing our knowledge of early Christianity is Lara Nisraeli,

a professor at Yale who specializes in New Testament text and archaeology.

In this conversation, Zach Davis and Terrell Gibbons visited with Lara in her new haven

office to discuss topics like the role of women in the early Christian church, how to discern

God's hand in the messy complexity of history, and New Testament practices like speaking in

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