Bonus Episode—Introducing “Y Religion Presents: Gospel Teaching” (John Hilton III and Casey Griffiths)

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🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

President Dallin H. Oaks has taught that “every member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is, or will be, a teacher. Each of us has a vital interest in the content and effectiveness of gospel teaching.” How might we prepare ourselves to teach with clarity and the inspiration of the Holy Ghost? In this episode professors John Hilton III and Casey Griffiths introduce “Y Religion Presents,” a special series of weekly episodes on a common theme. The 2025 motif focuses on gospel teaching. In the following eleven episodes, leading experts discuss a variety of approaches, skills, and techniques for teaching—at home or in church—in the Savior’s way. Each episode is intercut with perspectives from two presenters, providing diverse voices, multiple applications, and more holistic approaches to touch the hearts and enlighten the minds of students. Listeners preparing to teach in any capacity can take away new approaches and perspectives as they continue to hone their craft of teaching.

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0:00.0	Hello, why religion friends. John Hilton here. Today we're releasing a special bonus episode
0:05.8	to tell you about a very exciting project. And I'm joined today by one of our very own
0:10.5	Y religion podcast hosts, Casey Griffith. Casey, welcome. Hi, John. Good to be here. Casey, you've
0:16.1	been working with Anthony Sweat, the former Y religion podcast podcast host on a special series called Why Religion Presents.
0:22.7	Normally in a Y-Religion episode, we interview a professor about a specific research study that they've done,
0:28.6	and twice a month on the first and the 15th of the month, these episodes are released.
0:33.0	But there's not really a connection between each episode.
0:36.5	Yeah.
0:36.8	With Why Religion Presents, there's going to be a theme for the next 11 weeks.
0:42.2	Yeah, this is our first attempt at what's called Long Form Podcasting, which is I've been involved in my religion from the beginning, but each episode is kind of a self-contained study.
0:53.4	We're talking with brother or sister
0:56.0	so-and-so about their study on this, and that is the episode. And I love that format. Actually,
1:01.8	it's super appealing to me because when I want to catch up on someone's research, I jump in
1:06.3	and I listen to an episode. At the same time, one of the things that's developed over the last few years
1:11.5	in podcasting is long-form podcasts where you take multiple episodes and tackle a different subject.
1:18.0	For instance, one of the earliest blockbusters in this area was called Serial. It was produced by
1:23.0	This American Life, and it was basically a story of a murder investigation that instead of being
1:28.4	dealt with in one episode was dealt with over about 13 different episodes. And so we wanted to
1:34.3	take the podcast format a little bit and say, well, what if we picked one topic, we brought in a
1:39.4	bunch of different people to talk about it? And we looked at it from a number of different angles.
1:43.9	And that's where gospel teaching, which is our first venture into this, of different people to talk about it. And we looked at it from a number of different angles.
1:49.7	And that's where gospel teaching, which is our first venture into this format really comes from.
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