Can Doubt be a Spiritual Gift? A Conversation with Terryl Givens & Jared Halverson

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🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This week, we’re excited to share a special live episode recorded at the Compass Gallery in Provo, as part of our Big Questions series with Terryl Givens. Each month, Terryl is joined by a guest for a conversation about some of our biggest theological and historical questions. In this episode, he’s joined by scholar and teacher Jared Halverson. Together, Terryl and Jared explore the question: can doubt be a spiritual gift? They consider how doubt might play a meaningful role in our spiritual ...

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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?
0:40.7	Hey, everybody.
0:41.4	This is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
0:43.8	Today we're really excited to share a special live episode recorded at the Compass Gallery in Provo
0:48.9	as part of our big questions series with Terrell Givens.
0:52.1	Each month, Terrell is joined by a guest for a conversation
0:54.8	about some of our biggest theological and historical questions. And in this episode, he's
0:59.9	joined by one of our favorite scholars and teachers, Jared Halverson. Together, Terrell and Jared
1:04.6	explore the question, can doubt be a spiritual gift? They consider how doubt might play a meaningful
1:09.7	role in our spiritual development
1:11.2	and ask whether we can reclaim faith as something relational, built on loyalty, trust, and love,
1:17.7	rather than a list of things we intellectually agree to. One of the most powerful ideas that
1:22.1	emerges is that faith and doubt are not opposites. In fact, they may need to coexist,
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