Hey everybody, before we get started I just wanted to let you know that the first book from Faith Matters publishing is now available.

It's called All Things New and was written by Fiona and Terrell Givens.

When I finished the book, I just thought this has so much potential to actually change lives. They go

through and trace the roots of our religious vocabulary and show how so many of

these words have become totally unmoored from their original foundation and

how a lot of those traditions have been

carried forward for hundreds and even thousands of years and are in a lot of ways still damaging

us today.

And then they dive into how we can reformulate our language in healthy and inspiring ways. This book is so

healing, it's hopeful, it's a totally paradigm shifting book that you will not be able to

put down. You can pick up a copy for yourself or for friends and family. It's available

at Desert Book on Amazon, Audible and

Apple Books. We're so grateful for Terrell and Fiona and all of the amazing work

that they've done here. All right that's all for the book for now but we have a lot more

to come. Thanks as always and here's the episode.

Darius Gray is a pioneering figure in Mormonism. He has had a wide and varied career in

television broadcasting, publishing and business management.

Gray helped establish the Genesis Group, the LDS Church's official organization supporting Black

Latter-day Saints and for three decades served as his president.

You've experienced a tremendous amount of pain and in loneliness and alienation as you described it.

Have you also felt at the same time a compensating kind of belonging?

Absolutely.

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