56. The Most American Religion - McKay Coppins with Terryl Givens

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🗓️ 27 December 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this latest installment of Conversations with Terryl Givens, Terryl is joined by McKay Coppins, a highly respected young political commentator and writer, widely known for his back-and-forths with Donald Trump over the past several years.

Coppins recently published a truly remarkable piece in The Atlantic titled “The Most American Religion” which is both a retrospective on the place of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in American consciousness and a look forward to the third century of the Church and its place in American culture. As part of writing the piece, Coppins was granted a rare face-to-face sit down with Pres. Russell M. Nelson to discuss a wide range of topics.

We think you’ll enjoy this conversation between two very insightful Latter-day Saint thinkers.

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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.
0:29.5	And then they dive into how we can reformulate our language in healthy and inspiring ways. This book is so
0:34.3	healing, it's hopeful, it's a totally paradigm shifting book that you will not be able to
0:38.4	put down. You can pick up a copy for yourself or for friends and family. It's available
0:42.4	at Desert Book on Amazon, Audible and
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
0:51.3	more to come. Thanks as always and here's the episode.
0:56.8	Hi everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. In this latest installment of
1:01.1	conversations with Terrell Givens,
1:03.1	Terrell is joined by McKay Coppins, a highly respected
1:05.8	young political commentator and writer,
1:07.8	widely known for his back and forth
1:09.3	with Donald Trump over the past several years.
1:11.8	Coppins recently published a truly remarkable piece in the Atlantic titled
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