Welcome to Maxwell Institute Conversations, special video cast episodes of the Maxwell Institute podcast, hosted by Terrell Givens and created in collaboration with Faith Matters Foundation.

You can watch this episode in your podcast app, or if you're on the run, listen to the audio version.

Music Is faith a choice? Does faith come naturally to some people more than others?

Terrell Givens and Rosalind Welch have written and spoken on these questions, and each of them bring interesting perspectives to the discussion.

Rosalind Welch is an independent scholar in St. Louis, Missouri, and a member of the Maxwell Institute's

advisory board, and she joins Terrell Gibbons in this final episode of our special series

of Maxwell Institute Conversations.

Hello, and welcome to another installment of Faith Matters Foundation's Conversations.

I'm the host Harold Givens, and this is a podcast series that is devoted to exploring the Mormon experience,

the lived experience of Mormonism as a catalyst to the abundant life and the public good. And today our guest is Rosalind Welch and Rosalind. We're delighted to have you with us today. Thank you for coming.

My immense pleasure.

Well, we always start off the first half or so of the episode we like to get to know you better and talk a little bit about your background and your faith journey. And sometimes the best way to get a kind of

bird's eye view of your life as a whole is to ask you to project into the future and imagine

what kinds of things will be said in your obituary. If that's not too morbid a way to

introduce biography. She was just stunningly beautiful and amazingly brilliant, right?

I mean, that'll pretty much sum it up.

And when we get to line three, what to be fine?

In my obituary, you know, I hope it covers the basics.

She loved her family.

She loved her neighbor. She took care of her neighbors.

She took care of her family.

She took care of a beautiful garden.

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