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.

Religion in America is undergoing a revolution.

In 1972, 90% of Americans were self-professed Christians.

Now that number is about 64%.

There are now large and growing populations of non-Christians as well as many who have

no particular religious beliefs.

Such a time of change has made it a particularly exciting time to be a scholar of religion, charged

with making sense of the shifting landscape of the American religious experience.

For today's conversation, Zach Davis sat down with one of those scholars, Charles Stain,

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