Hello my friends welcome back to Unshaken. For those of you who are new to the channel I'm

Jared Halverson I'm a teacher of the gospel.

More importantly, I'm a student of the scriptures.

And most importantly, I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ.

And I'm so grateful that you've joined me.

I started this channel a couple of months ago in hopes of staying connected with my students during the whole COVID-19 pandemic.

So far, I think it's been a blessing to them.

Some have said it's been nice to be able to pause me so that it can

think and ponder about the things that we're discussing. I'm sure others are

grateful that they can fast forward me or skip it all together. But I've also

been amazed at this growing community of unshaken Saints.

I'm meeting people all over the world and I'm grateful to be able to connect with each of you.

I wish I could get to know each of you personally, but so that you can know me a little bit. My name is

Jared Halverson, like I said. I grew up in Southern California, served a mission

in Puerto Rico, taught at the MTC, studied history at BYU, and then got a

masters in a religious education after beginning to teach for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I eventually ended up in Nashville, Tennessee, running the Seminary and Institute program there,

and dove into a graduate program at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School so I could study American religious history focusing on anti religious rhetoric.

So academically I spend most of my time studying anti-Mormanism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism.

I'm currently finishing my dissertation on anti-biblical rhetoric in 19th century America,

and I'm out to my eyeballs in the things that people have said to try to rob

biblical believers of their faith in the word of God. I'm amazed at how relevant

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