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.

We couldn't be more excited about the conversation that we get to share with you today.

It's a conversation that Tim and I have hoped to have since we began this work with Faith

Matters.

Or maybe more accurately, it's a conversation we'd hoped to have 15 years ago since this

new phase of our faith journey really began.

Today's guest is Richard Bushman, who is simply one of the most important scholarly voices

ever in the Latter-day Saint tradition.

Of course, Richard has been interviewed many times over the years and we wanted to make

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