4. A Disciple’s Plea for Openness and Inclusion - Terryl Givens with Elder Marlin K. Jensen

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🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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During his 24 years as a beloved LDS General Authority and Official Church Historian, Elder Marlin K. Jensen presided over an historic shift toward greater openness in the LDS church’s approach to its history. In this Conversation with Terryl Givens, we get an intimate glimpse into Elder Jensen’s personal life and thoughts, including: How loving and serving his older brother instilled a determination to include “those who are different”The spiritual experiences that led him to consecrate his ...

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, before we get started I just wanted to let you know that the first book from Faith Matters publishing is now available.
0:06.0	It's called All Things New and was written by Fiona and Terrell Givens.
0:09.0	When I finished the book, I just thought this has so much potential to actually change lives. They go
0:14.8	through and trace the roots of our religious vocabulary and show how so many of
0:18.6	these words have become totally unmoored from their original foundation and
0:21.8	how a lot of those traditions have been
0:24.1	carried forward for hundreds and even thousands of years and are in a lot of ways still damaging
0:28.5	us today.
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0:44.8	Apple Books. We're so grateful for Terrell and Fiona and all of the amazing work
0:48.3	that they've done here. All right that's all for the book for now but we have a lot more
0:51.4	to come. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:55.6	As an LDS general authority and official church historian,
1:00.1	Marlon K Jensen presided over a historic shift toward greater openness in the Mormon Church's
1:06.3	approach to its history. You know, truth is a knowledge of things as they were and as they are and as they are to come.
1:23.0	And the Holy Ghost testifies of truth.
1:26.0	He speaks of things as they really are and as they really will be.
1:32.0	I believe that.
1:33.0	I believe the best antidote we have for anyone's faith crisis
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