Episode 356: Thomas McConkie, Transformations of Faith Course

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

My friend Thomas McConkie joins us to talk about his new online course called “Transformations of Faith”—a contemporary expression of timeless Wisdom as understood through the lens of the Restored Gospel. The course was jointly developed by two non-profits: Faith Matters (https://faithmatters.org/) and Lower Lights (https://lowerlightswisdom.org/) In the podcast Thomas explains why he developed the course, who the course is for, the nature of the content, and how it brings hope and healing. He even walks us through some practices in the conversation! I encourage our listeners to enroll in this course. It will give you tools to better activate the possibilities of our gospel (especially around healing and finding peace) in your life. Please go to transformationsoffaith.org to learn more or enroll. Use the discount code HOLIDAYS for 25% off. Thank you, our friend Thomas, for being on the podcast and your unique and needed life work to bring hope, healing, love, peace and unity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:10.2	My guest on today's podcast, and my home is my friend Thomas McConkey.
0:14.3	Welcome to the podcast, Thomas.
0:15.9	Good to be back.
0:17.3	We had Thomas on episode 157, July of 2019, and we're having him back to talk about a course
0:26.8	that he's developed in collaboration with Faith Matters.
0:30.5	Lower Lights is Thomas.
0:32.6	He's the founder of Lower Lights.
0:34.0	We'll talk more about that.
0:35.7	But this is a podcast to primarily talk about this
0:38.3	course. We're going to talk about who the course is for, what the context is like, and what
0:43.3	your personal relationship to it. And I just love the work that Thomas is doing, that Faith Matters,
0:49.3	and just want to do everything I can with our platform here to bring more of you, our listeners,
0:56.9	connected with Thomas and his work. And on a personal note, when I went through what I call
1:01.8	a mini-faith crisis, this is a YSA bishop. It was Thomas's book and planted by Patrick Mason
1:08.2	that were two books that helped me navigate some of the things that I was
1:11.8	processing. His book is called Navigating a Mormon faith crisis. It was published in 2015. Just a
1:18.8	great book for me personally to help me continue to be a believing member of the church,
1:24.6	but just have better tools to navigate the complicated things
1:28.2	I was exposed to. So thank you for that, Thomas. As our listeners know, I wrote a book called
1:34.5	Listen, Learn, and Love, Embracing, LGBTQ, Latter-day Saints. And I have one quote from Thomas that
1:41.0	came up in episode 157 that I put in the book. It's in Chapter 11 on page
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