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🗓️ 5 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, if you missed Restore this week, we've got you covered. You can purchase the full recordings to hear your favorite speakers anytime at faith matters.org slash restore. And we are so excited to announce the first ever waymakers conference called Repair. This is taking place October 23rd through 25th in Provo, Utah this year. And it's going to be such an incredible opportunity to learn from world-class peacemakers leading intensive workshops to help you navigate the most challenging situations in your life. |
| 0:24.9 | So if you're feeling frustrated or hopeless about a conflict, bring it to repair. |
| 0:28.9 | This year we're featuring a keynote from Jim Farrell as well as a series of intimate workshops |
| 0:32.7 | from the One America Movement, Jennifer Finlayson-Five, Patrick Mason, Melissa Mason, Thomas McConkey, LaShawn |
| 0:38.6 | Williams, and many more. Tickets are available at waymakers.substack.com. We'll see you there. |
| 0:46.3 | Hey, everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today, we are so excited to share |
| 0:50.9 | Arthur Brooks's keynote from Restore this past weekend. This message was so |
| 0:54.9 | powerful, it will stop you in your tracks, and it feels so essential for this exact moment. We believe |
| 0:59.8 | it needs to be heard everywhere in our homes, our communities, and across the country, so we're sharing it |
| 1:04.4 | with you right now. This year, we gathered at Utah Valley University for Restore, where just two weeks |
| 1:09.5 | earlier, Charlie Kirk was |
| 1:10.8 | assassinated while addressing a large crowd. So soon after such horrific violence, the campus itself |
| 1:16.1 | carried a real weight of grief and uncertainty. And Arthur walked straight into that heaviness |
| 1:20.7 | with so much clarity and conviction. He called us toward a powerful vision of moral courage and |
| 1:25.7 | discipleship. His message was bold. |
| 1:28.3 | He confronted unflinchingly what's really breaking us apart. |
| 1:31.6 | Not political division, but the deeper poison of contempt. |
| 1:34.9 | And then he challenged us with this. |
| 1:36.7 | He said moral courage isn't standing up to the people you disagree with. |
| 1:40.5 | Moral courage is standing up to your own side on behalf of those you disagree with. Arthur says that |
| 1:46.1 | tolerance and civility are too low a bar, that the real standard is much higher. It's the sermon on |
| 1:50.9 | the mount. It's loving our enemies, not as a feeling, but as a radical concrete, countercultural |
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