MIConversations #4—Thomas F. Rogers with Terryl Givens, “Risk-taking discipleship”

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Christianity, Education, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Maxwell Institute Conversations are special videocast episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, hosted by Terryl Givens and created in collaboration with Faith Matters Foundation.

In this episode Terryl Givens sits down with Thomas F. Rogers to talk about the risks of discipleship, and worshiping God with all one’s heart, might, mind, and strength.

About the Guest

Thomas F. Rogers is a noted playwright, essayist, and scholar who taught Russian at Brigham Young University from 1969 to 2000. He also served as director of the BYU Honors Program in the 1970s. From 1993 to 1996, he was president of the LDS Church’s Russia St. Petersburg Mission, the subject of his memoir A Call to Russia: Glimpses of Missionary Life (Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 1999). Subsequently, he and his wife, Merriam, served in the Stockholm Sweden Temple. From 2007 until his release in 2014, Rogers was a traveling LDS patriarch assigned to the LDS Church’s Europe East Area. He is author of Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty (Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2016). Tom and Merriam currently live in Bountiful, Utah, where he spends time painting and visiting their seven children and forty grandchildren.

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0:00.0	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.
0:11.1	You can watch this episode in your podcast app, or if you're on the run, listen to the audio version. Thomas F. Rogers is a noted Latter-day Saint playwright, essayist scholar, and a former B.Y.U. Professor.
0:31.6	He's written extensively on the relationship between reason and faith. The Neil A. Maxwell Institute published a collection of his writings as part of our Living
0:39.1	Faith book series.
0:40.5	The book is called Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand, Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and
0:45.4	beauty.
0:46.4	Terrell Givens sits down to talk with Rogers about his deep interest in human connection,
0:51.1	the family of God.
0:52.0	What can you say about discipleship as a kind of risk-taking venture?
0:58.0	It needs to be that for all of us.
1:00.0	And the people we read about in Scripture, the prophets and others apostles in the New Testament,
1:07.0	they had to do that.
1:08.0	They had to walk the razor's edge, as Christ himself did.
1:13.8	And I think that we need more of that challenge.
1:17.5	I think it's available to us if we respond.
1:21.5	Thomas F. Rogers joins Terrell Givens in this episode of Maxwell Institute Conversations.
1:30.9	Hello. in this episode of Maxwell Institute Conversations. Hello and welcome to Faith Matters Foundation's Conversations with Terrell Givens,
1:37.1	a video cast devoted to exploring the experience of lived Mormonism as a catalyst to the abundant
1:41.8	life and the public good. I'm your host and our guest today is playwright, linguist, and artist Thomas Rogers.
1:51.0	And we're delighted to have you with us today, Tom.
1:54.0	Thank you. I'm very honored.
1:57.0	Well, I like to start by having my guests introduce themselves to the large public.
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