79. Imaginative Discipleship — A Conversation with Robert Rees

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🗓️ 10 July 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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For this episode, we talked to Dr. Robert Rees. Bob has fit enough into his life to fill several lifetimes, so we can’t talk about everything he’s done, but we’ll give you some highlights here.

Bob has taught in humanities and Mormon Studies at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and several other institutions. He’s also been the editor of Dialogue, former Chair of the Sunstone Foundation, and has published a wide variety of scholarly articles, personal essays, editorials, and poetry. Bob is the editor of a book series called Why I Stay, which compiles essays by some really remarkable Latter-day Saints; the latest edition, Why I Stay 2, which contains essays from Carol Lynn Pearson, Jennifer Finlayson-Fife, Phil Barlow, and others, was just released in April.

Bob is also one of the founders of The Bountiful Children's Foundation, whose mission is to nurture the potential of infants and toddlers to lead healthy, productive, and self-reliant lives by eliminating malnutrition.

We spoke with Bob about how we as Latter-day Saints can engage fully and faithfully with a world that’s in need of imaginative and optimistic discipleship. He embodies that ideal so perfectly, and we came away so inspired by his energy and enthusiasm for making the Church and the world better places.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Tim Choppess from Faith Matters. For this episode we talked to Dr. Robert Reese.
0:06.0	Bob has fit enough into his life to fill several lifetimes so we can't talk about everything he's done, but we'll give you some highlights here.
0:12.0	Bob has taught in humanities and Mormon studies at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and several other institutions.
0:18.0	He's also been the editor of Dialogue, former chair of the Sunstone Foundation,
0:22.0	and has published a wide variety of scholarly articles, personal essays, editorials, and poetry.
0:27.0	Bob is the editor of a book series called Why I Stay, which compiles essays by some remarkable Saturday Saints.
0:33.0	The latest edition, Why I Stay Too, which contains essays from Carolyn Pearson, Jennifer Finless, and Five,
0:38.0	Phil Barlow, and others was just released in April.
0:41.0	Bob is also one of the founders of the Bountiful Children's Foundation, whose mission is to nurture the potential of infants and toddlers
0:48.0	to lead healthy, productive, and self-reliant lives by eliminating malnutrition.
0:53.0	We spoke with Bob about how we as Latter-day Saints can engage fully and faithfully with the world that's in need of imaginative and optimistic helpers.
1:00.0	He embodies that ideal so perfectly, and we came away so inspired by his energy and enthusiasm for making the church and the world better places.
1:07.0	We're really grateful we got to have this conversation with Bob, and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we did.
1:12.0	Okay, Robert Reese, we are so excited to talk to you tonight.
1:16.0	Thank you so much for being on the podcast with us.
1:19.0	Please call me Bob.
1:20.0	Bob, Bob Reese.
1:22.0	The Bob Reese.
1:24.0	So you have your hand in so many different projects and causes, and it seems you've been that way for years and years and years.
1:32.0	I think we could do an episode on any one of those, but we're hoping this episode can be a little bit more broad and that we'll be able to at least touch on some of everything that you're involved in right now.
1:43.0	But we would love for you to give us a little bit about who you are and tell us a little bit about your background and growing up and how you became the Bob Reese that we know.
1:54.0	Well, I was born during the height of the Great Depression.
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