A Thoughtful Faith - A Conversation with Philip Barlow

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🗓️ 17 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, we’re sharing a conversation with Phil Barlow about his new book, published by Faith Matters, called A Thoughtful Faith for the 21st Century. If that sounds familiar, it may be because Phil published the first volume back in 1986. That original collection included essays by Eugene England, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Francine Bennion, Richard Bushman, and others—each exploring what it means to live a spiritually and intellectually honest life within the Latter-day Saint tradition. As P...

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0:00.0	Hey friends, Arthur Brooks here.
0:02.0	September 26th, 2025, I'm going to be in Orem, Utah for the Restore Conference.
0:07.0	It's going to be a great conference, and my part in it is going to be talking about the science of happiness with my Latter-day Saints friends.
0:15.0	Now, I'm a Catholic, but the Latter-day Saints always say I'm your favorite Catholic.
0:19.0	Do you say that to all the Catholics?
0:21.5	One way or the other, we're going to be talking about something that we all share, which is
0:25.1	bringing happiness and flourishing and well-being to people all around the world and doing it
0:30.4	in the context of our shared Christian faith. So be there the 26th of September, 2025, or in Utah,
0:37.3	at the Restore Conference.
0:38.8	Can't wait to see you?
0:40.6	Hey, everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
0:43.6	Today we're so excited to share a conversation with Phil Barlow about his new book published
0:48.0	by Faith Matters called A Thoughtful Faith for the 21st Century.
0:51.5	If that sounds familiar, it may be because Phil published the first
0:54.8	volume of this book back in 1986. The original collection included essays from Eugene England,
1:00.9	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Francine Bennion, Richard Bushman, and many others, each exploring
1:05.5	what it means to live a spiritually and intellectually honest life within the Latter-day Saint
1:09.5	tradition. As Phil points out, challenges to faith are not new.
1:14.2	Thoughtful people were wrestling with difficult questions decades ago in ways that still have
1:18.3	power today.
1:19.5	But as he says, the world has turned some since then.
1:23.2	The 2025 edition brings in a new generation of scholars and voices. Thomas McConkey, Melissa Inouye,
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