136. Let Me Drown with Moses — A Conversation with James Goldberg

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🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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For this episode, we were happy to bring on someone that’s been on our list for a long time — scholar and writer James Goldberg.

James is a fascinating person and Latter-day Saint, and brings a truly unique perspective to our faith. In his words, his family is Jewish on one side, Sikh on the other, and Mormon in the middle. He works as a historian at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and is also a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, documentary filmmaker, scholar, and translator. He’s won the Association for Mormon letters awards in both the Drama and Novel categories, for different works, and has been a finalist in the Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, and Criticism categories. He’s also one of a rotating cast of scholars on BYUtv’s Come Follow Up series.

Our conversation was wide-ranging and it turns out James has interesting insights to share on just about anything — so we covered several topics, including how Latter-day Saints can approach the Old Testament, wrestling with other difficult scripture or history, and the virtue of the slow, distilled process of creating poetry. We also discussed James’s book of poetry, Let Me Drown with Moses and its provocative title, including the virtue of choosing faith in a chaotic world while maintaining our own moral compass.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I just want to take a second to invite you to join me this year at Restore
0:06.6	a Faith Matters Gathering happening October 13th and 14th.
0:12.0	It's going to be at the Amount and America Expo Center in Sandy and it promises to be
0:16.5	an exceptional conference.
0:18.4	I attended last fall and found it to be a remarkably inspiring, hopeful two days of listening
0:27.2	to really well-prepared, thoughtful talks as well as inspiring music and really feeling
0:36.7	a deep connection with my other Latter-day Saint brothers and sisters around me in our
0:41.8	shared desire to speak to the best in our faith and to speak to one another and find a
0:48.3	sense of connection.
0:49.9	I'm also going to be one of the people speaking.
0:52.3	I'll be speaking a bit about eros energy and its connection to spirituality and to the
0:59.6	light of Christ.
1:01.2	And so I hope to see you all there.
1:05.6	Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
1:11.5	For this episode we were happy to bring on someone that's been on our list for a long time,
1:15.1	scholar and writer James Goldberg.
1:17.4	James is a fascinating person in Latter-day Saint and he brings a truly unique perspective
1:21.1	to our faith.
1:22.2	In his words, his family is Jewish on one side, sick on the other and Mormon in the middle.
1:27.0	He works as a historian at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is also a poet,
1:31.2	a novelist, essayist, playwright, documentary filmmaker, scholar and translator.
1:36.2	He's won the Association for Mormon Letters Award in both drama and novel categories
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