Hey everybody. Before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from

Faith Matters Publishing. It's called Restoration by Patrick Mason. When we started the

Faith Matters Publishing project one of our goals was to explore what

restoration really means as the church moves into its third century

and that's exactly what Patrick does. If you're like me and you've ever wondered how restoring Israel

can be relevant to you, you've got to read this book. Patrick shows how as members of the

church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness and healing to the

marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and it has

totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.

I really can't recommend this book strongly enough.

It's the kind of book you want everyone you know to be reading to so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for

yourself or for your friends and family at Desert Book, Amazon, Audible, and Apple

Books. Okay that's it on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the

near future. Thanks as always and here's the episode.

Hi, this is Bill Turnbull from Faith Matters Foundation.

We are introducing a series of podcasts called Deep Dives, where we go deep on a particular subject with a

particular guest.

And this one is about the spiritual practice of meditation and mindfulness, and it's its discussion about how we can grow and develop through our adult lives.

My guest is Thomas Wirthland McConke, a young man from the most prominent of Mormon families who returned to engagement with the Mormon church after a long self-imposed exile,

and he returned bearing gifts.

Thomas lives now in Salt Lake City, teaches and coaches around mindfulness and

adult development, and he's the author of the book Navigating Mormon

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