How I Lead as Bishop After a Faith Crisis | An Interview With Dan Conway

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This is a re-broadcast. The episode originally ran in February 2018. Dan Conway is a bishop in Newcastle, in northeast England, and has also served as an elders quorum president. He served a mission to Scotland and works as a digital marketing executive. In this episode, Dan walks us through his crisis of faith prior to being called as bishop, and how that affected how he leads now. Episode Summary 5:45 Mission to Scotland 8:45 Faith crisis 14:40 Reading and praying didn’t work as a solution 19:20 Call as Elders Quorum president in the midst of a faith crisis 21:50 Finding the answers to his questions 28:30 Experience bearing his testimony of Joseph Smith 31:15 Becoming the bishop after a faith crisis 43:45 Understanding that people can change and become better 46:15 First year as a bishop 51:20 How he does ward council: short meetings every other week, then visits 56:35 Using an agenda and PPIs 1:01:00 Visiting people after ward council 1:04:00 PPIs Links Interview with Arthur Boutin FAIR Mormon Read the TRANSCRIPT of this podcast Note: This transcript was machine-produced. We would be grateful for help correcting errors. You can help! Simply copy/paste the transcript text into a document, make the corrections, and then copy/paste the corrected text into a comment on the page (below) and we will get the corrected text published!

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0:00.0	The following episode is a throwback episode, one that was published previously and was extremely popular.
0:05.8	To see the details of when this was originally published, see the show notes.
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1:17.0	Today we not only discuss how he leads as a bishop in England, but also his journey through a personal faith. In the interview, we not only discuss how he leads as a bishop, but also his journey through a personal faith crisis, where his shelf of belief
1:25.9	tumbled down and how he pieced it back together with the help of others. Soon after he found
1:30.8	solid footing in the gospel, he was called to serve as Bishop of his ward.
1:35.5	A big thank you for Arthur Bhutan for recommending that we talk with Dan.
1:39.6	It turned out great.
1:40.6	Now before we jump into that interview, I want to request that you jump over to leading
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