MIConversations #9—Terryl Givens with Samuel Brown, “Confessions of an ‘Odd Intellectual’”
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4.7 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Maxwell Institute Conversations are special episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, hosted by Terryl Givens and created in collaboration with Faith Matters Foundation. Audio and video available.
Samuel Brown deals in matters of life and death every day. He’s a doctor working in a Shock/Trauma ICU. In his spare time, he’s also a theologian and a historian of Latter-day Saint thought. In this interview with Terryl Givens, Brown talks in his own unique style about the ways of discipleship.
About the GuestSAMUEL M. BROWN is a medical researcher, intensive care unit physician, and historian of religion and culture. He is author of First Principles and Ordinances, part of the Maxwell Institute’s Living Faith book series, and a number of other titles including In Heaven as it is On Earth and Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human, both from Oxford University Press.
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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. |
| 0:15.9 | Music Samuel Brown deals in matters of life and death every day. |
| 0:29.2 | He's a doctor working in a shock trauma ICU. |
| 0:31.8 | In his spare time, he's also a historian and theologian of Latter-day Saint-Thought. |
| 0:35.8 | Brown joins Terrell Givens in this episode of Maxwell Institute conversations |
| 0:39.3 | to talk about the ways of discipleship. |
| 0:41.3 | That if what we're after is being vessels of God's grace |
| 0:47.3 | and of both experiencing and crafting and responding to you |
| 0:53.3 | and being shaped by beautiful things is not some |
| 0:59.2 | capital romantic cop-out. It's the work of salvation. And it will have this incredible |
| 1:06.8 | harmony of different kinds of things. |
| 1:12.0 | These special video episodes of the Maxwell Institute podcast are sponsored by the Faith |
| 1:16.3 | Matters Foundation in cooperation with the Neil A. Maxwell Institute for religious |
| 1:20.3 | scholarship. |
| 1:26.9 | Hello and welcome to Conversations with Terrell Givens, a video cast sponsored by the Faith Matters Foundation. |
| 1:33.3 | And our guest today is Sam Brown, an epidemiologist, a historian, a writer, author, and what else would go in your obituary, Sam? |
| 1:46.0 | Oh, obituary scare me. |
| 1:48.6 | The one thing I hate about funerals other than the sadness at the passage is the sense of |
| 1:54.3 | utter inadequacy I feel compared to the eulogies of these fine people. |
| 1:59.4 | So the obit and the eulogy just makes me feel like a |
| 2:03.1 | total slub. Well, give us, give us three things that you expect would appear in your obituary. |
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