Episode 556: Dr. Matthew Wickman, BYU Professor, Wonderful New Book

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

My friend Dr. Matthew Wickman (BYU Professor of English and Founding Director, Emeritus, of the BYU Humanities Center) joins us to talk about his new book called “Life to the Whole Being, The Spiritual Memoir of a Literature Professor”. The great book (published by the BYU Maxwell Institute) is available at: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Whole-Being-Spiritual-Literature/dp/0842500618/ In the podcast, Dr. Wickman tells us why he wrote the book, who is hopes will read it and how he hopes it will help readers. If you are in a faith crisis, wondering where God is in the complexities of mortality, want to develop more faith and/or want better tools to help others, this book/podcast will help you. If you have loved ones no longer in the Church, this podcast will help you feel more peace. I was deeply moved during the podcast with Dr. Wickman’s wonderful insights and soft heart. I feel more peace and have more hope. Thank you, Matt, for being on the podcast and your great and needed work in our faith community. I encourage everyone to read your book.

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0:00.0	Welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:08.0	My guest on today's podcast in my home is Dr. Matthew Wickman, a professor at BYU.
0:15.0	Welcome to the podcast, Matthew.
0:17.0	Thank you, Richard. Good to be here.
0:18.0	And even though he's a doctor and professor since he's younger than me, since I'm the oldest person on the podcast in my 60s, I'm going to call him Matt during the podcast.
0:27.5	But out of respect, I may call him doctor and professor at times.
0:32.2	We're going to talk about his new book called Life to the Whole Being, the spiritual memoir of a literary professor.
0:42.1	And I'm on Twitter, and about two or three months ago, I just kept getting tweets and
0:47.8	retweets about this book. And I thought, I better learn more about this book. And I've
0:53.6	sort of known Matthew through Twitter and his work generally, but I got to, over
0:58.9	the last week or so, read more about this book and reached out to Matt to ask him to be on
1:05.4	the podcast because I thought it would be helpful for you listeners.
1:09.3	We'll link to the book.
1:10.4	It's published by BYU Maxwell Institute. We'll link to the book. It's published by BYU Maxwell Institute.
1:12.9	We'll link to the Amazon links.
1:14.5	You can check it out.
1:16.3	But it's a wonderful book.
1:17.8	And I'll let Matthew introduce it.
1:19.4	Just a little more background.
1:20.6	As I mentioned, he's a professor at BYU.
1:22.9	He's married.
1:23.8	He's a couple kids.
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