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 Tim Chavez from Faith Matters.

For today's episode, we're really excited to bring on Jason Olson, who along with James

Goldberg is the author of a new memoir called The Burning Book.

Jason's story is truly fascinating.

He was born into a reformed Jewish household with a Jewish mother and a Christian father.

As a child and young person, he was always drawn to God and to religion and found himself

very involved in both study and practice in his faith.

After his bar mitzvah at age 13, he eventually encountered some Latter-day Saint friends who,

after many hours of religious discussions over a long period of time, offered him a copy

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