Episode 366: Patrick Mason’s New Book “Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st Century World”

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🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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My friend Patrick Mason (Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University and author of “Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt”) joins us to talk about his new book “Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st Century World” available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Restoration-Gods-Call-21st-Century-World/dp/1953677045. If you want to be inspired about our future, please read this book and listen to this podcast. Here is more about the book: The Restoration began in the spring of 1820, when Joseph Smith saw God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees in upstate New York. Joseph had questions, and Jesus had answers. That was two hundred years ago. As the Restoration enters its third century, the world has new questions. A loving God has answers. In Restoration, scholar and author Patrick Mason reflects on what it means for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to participate in the ongoing Restoration. Every generation must rediscover the gospel anew, and this book breathes new life into well-worn terms and phrases. What does it mean to restore Israel ? How can a church with less than one percent of the world s population be true ? What baggage have we picked up these past two centuries, and how do we move forward with confidence, relevance, and impact? The Restoration was intended to bless all of our Heavenly Parents children, especially the marginalized and vulnerable among us. This book will inspire and challenge you to rethink, recommit, and respond to God s call to the 21st-century world. Thank you for being on the podcast Patrick and your efforts to being to life our the restoration.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love.
0:08.8	Listeners, we're recording this on winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, and it's a beautiful day in Utah.
0:15.9	My guests and I are both in Utah, and by the time you listen to this, you'll be on the road to the longest day of the year in June,
0:21.9	which is one of my favorite days of the year. But my guest on today's podcast, calling in from his office at Utah State University and Logan, Utah, is my friend Patrick Mason.
0:32.0	Welcome to the podcast, Patrick. Thank you. It's so good to be here.
0:36.8	Well, you, I think a lot of our listeners know you.
0:40.2	You have a Wikipedia page.
0:41.8	Whenever I have a guest and I go on Wikipedia and the guest is there, I know that I'm interviewing somebody.
0:47.9	And everyone of my guests have an important story to tell, but you're a little more well-known in the Latter-day Saint community. Will you first
0:56.1	introduce your education background? I know you've got a couple degrees, master's degrees,
1:01.3	and a PhD. Just introduce that, and then we're going to talk about the books. We're going to
1:05.4	talk about your assignment at Utah State, and then the book we're going to talk about.
1:09.7	Yeah, terrific. So I got my bachelor's degree from BYU in history, and then the book we're going to talk about. Yeah, terrific. So I got my bachelor's degree
1:12.5	from BYU in history and then went on to graduate school at the University of Notre Dame,
1:17.5	which was just a terrific experience. And I got a couple of different master's degrees, one in
1:22.6	history and one in international peace studies, and then finished my doctoral degree in American history.
1:29.4	And you had twins born in Indiana, I believe, during this time. Yeah, that was my real education.
1:35.3	Tell our listeners how many kids you had under three at Indiana. So we've got four kids,
1:40.6	range from 12 years old to down to four. So that was crazy times, PhD and twins. And I think
1:50.0	you had another little kid during that time, too. Yeah, exactly. And actually, that was the year that
1:55.8	we had, the twins was the year that I was finishing my first book. And it was, let's just say that we don't have a lot of
2:03.1	memories of that year. My wife and I, we're very glad that we did take a few pictures and videos
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