Re-release of Maxwell Institute Podcast #159: Why Do We Pray? Featuring Kimberly Matheson

Maxwell Institute Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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While our editing team is working on the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast, we decided to re-release an episode from The Questions We Should Be Asking featuring Kimberly Matheson. We hope you enjoy it. If you can take the time to write us a positive review wherever you're listening to this, we would love to hear your feedback.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Maxwell Institute podcast.
0:03.9	I'm Ashley Poon-Eveson, the communications manager here at the Institute.
0:08.5	I help produce and edit the podcast behind the scenes with my talented student employees,
0:13.2	Austin Ball and Whitney Watt.
0:15.2	While our team works hard to get more episodes of the podcast available,
0:19.3	we decided to re-release one of our favorite episodes
0:22.0	from season one of the questions we should be asking, titled Why Do We Pray, featuring Kimberly
0:28.5	Matheson. We hope you enjoy listening to the podcast.
0:45.9	Hello, and welcome to the Maxwell Institute podcast, where we seek out faith illuminating scholarship.
0:50.1	I'm Rosalind Welch, Associate Director at the Institute.
0:54.5	This season, we're exploring the questions we should be asking.
0:56.4	Thanks for joining us.
0:58.4	What is prayer?
1:05.0	In 2020, President Nelson asked us to unite as a church in thanking God through daily prayer,
1:08.5	and he promised that prayer brings forth miracles.
1:11.9	But what are we doing when we pray?
1:15.4	Breathing, speaking, kneeling?
1:21.7	Today on the podcast I talk with Kimberly Matheson, a research fellow and my colleague here at the Maxwell Institute.
1:24.2	Kim studies and writes about the theology of prayer, and she spent years thinking through the
1:29.7	fundamentals of our ongoing conversation with God.
1:33.2	We talked about why prayer is necessary in a world of therapy and self-help.
1:39.7	Why prayer can be so hard?
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