80. Challenging Terryl Givens — A Conversation About "All Things New"

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🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Terryl and Fiona Givens most recent book, All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation and Everything in Between has received a remarkable amount of positive attention since it was published by Faith Matters a few months ago. We’ve been delighted to see that it’s resonated with so many people. Because of its bold scope, it has also sparked some wonderful debate.

In this week’s podcast episode, we collected some challenging questions from readers and posed them to Terryl. What followed was a really illuminating exploration of the book’s main ideas. As you might expect, Terryl had some really good answers to some really challenging questions.

Fiona is in Guam visiting her daughter’s family and was not able to join the conversation, but Terryl was as articulate, well-versed, and insightful as always. Enjoy this conversation with one of today’s most brilliant and engaging Latter-day Saint scholars.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. For today's conversation we spoke with
0:04.5	Terrell Gibbons to have him address some of the feedback about all things new, which was written
0:08.1	by Terrell and his wife Fiona and published by Faith Matters late last year. The book is received
0:12.5	a remarkable amount of positive attention since it was published, and we've been delighted to see
0:16.4	that it's resonated with so many people. Of course, hand in hand without attention, there's been
0:20.7	some pushback on some of the ideas put forth in the book, or maybe in some cases push back
0:25.4	against the perceived implications in the book. So for this conversation, we took some of those
0:29.7	concerns and posed them to Terrell. We think it was a really illuminating exploration of the book's
0:34.0	main ideas, and was helpful to hear what and whom he and Fiona were trying to address. Overall,
0:39.4	we thought it was fascinating and Terrell was as articulate, well-versed, and insightful as always.
0:43.5	We hope that you enjoy the conversation as much as we did. Well Terrell, how are you?
0:48.4	I'm good. Good. Good to be here with you both. Yes, I think this is the first time we've been in
0:52.4	studio together. For you, yeah, maybe. We have been with you in person many times, but it's
0:57.2	an honor to be here with you. Likewise. I hear that you've had a busy summer, busy going into
1:02.9	the fall as well. Yeah, hasn't light up both professionally and personally, which is why Fiona's
1:09.0	in here with me. She's actually helping to tend new twins in Guam, as we speak. Very exciting.
1:15.4	Yeah, that's awesome. One of the reasons we've been wanting to have this episode of the podcast
1:21.5	for quite some time. When we released, when Faith Matters published this book at the end of last
1:27.6	year, it I think surpassed all expectations in terms of the interest that it drew, how much it
1:34.3	resonated with, how much it resonated with so many members of the church. What we wanted to do with
1:39.6	this episode, obviously, and with interest, often comes pushback, right? Well, I would hope so. Yeah.
1:47.7	If you're doing more than just mounting platitudes and cliches, then you're going to
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