Doctrine & Covenants 45 : Dr. Brent L. Top Part I
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Hank Smith & John Bytheway
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🗓️ 24 April 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Follow Him, a weekly podcast dedicated to helping individuals and families with their |
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| 0:19.0 | My friends welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with |
| 0:25.1 | my illustrious co-host John by the way. Welcome John. Thanks Hank. Yeah. You are the greatest. |
| 0:33.2 | You are the greatest. It's a treat for me to host a podcast with John by the way. Which adjective |
| 0:39.6 | will Hank choose today? I always look forward to that. John, we have a treat every episode to |
| 0:45.0 | talk to a brilliant mind in the church. Who's with us this week? Dr. Brent L. Top is the Richard |
| 0:51.4 | Elevins chair of religious understanding and professor of church history and doctrine at |
| 0:56.0 | Breggamming University. He is the former dean of religious education. See, he was our boss, wasn't he? |
| 1:01.4 | And also served as department chair and an associate dean. He is retiring this year after 45 |
| 1:08.7 | years as a religious educator in the church educational system. Remember that number 45 we're |
| 1:14.0 | going to use that today. The last 34 being at BYU. He's the author of more than 20 books and scores |
| 1:20.7 | of articles and chapters in books. He's married to his high school sweetheart, the former Wendy |
| 1:26.7 | Cope. They served a mission together in the Illinois Peoria mission from 2004 to 2007 where Brent |
| 1:34.6 | presided over that mission. They and their family have also lived in the Holy Land where Brent |
| 1:40.9 | taught at the BYU Jerusalem Center. He has a great love for all of Heavenly Father's children and |
| 1:45.7 | much of his career has been spent in building bridges and in dialogue with scholars, religious |
| 1:51.0 | leaders and people of other faiths. He and Wendy are kept busy with their growing family of four |
| 1:55.4 | children, 24 and a half grandchildren and their first great grandchild imagine that. |
| 2:03.4 | Brent, this is perfect today because Brent's most recent book is called Watch and Be Ready |
| 2:09.5 | and that's Get Ready for the Second Coming Language in Insection 45 today. We've got a lot of |
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