Two Faith Matters Podcasts - Brian McLaren and Elaine Pagels - November, 2022

Podcasts:

Brian McLaren - Do I Stay Christian? https://faithmatters.org/do-i-stay-christian-a-conversation-with-brian-mclaren/

I loved his points about the need for religious communities to provide support and love.

The Rediscovered Gospel with Elaine Pagels

https://faithmatters.org/the-rediscovered-gospel-a-conversation-with-elaine-pagels/

(I listened to this today and loved it. She talks about the beginning of Christianity, the New Testament, the Apocrypha, Joseph Smith, and how his work broke out of orthodox tradition in so many radical ways, and the divine feminine. I particularly liked her point that religion gives us relationships we wouldn't have any other way--truth!

Talks:

Ben Spackman - “A Paradoxical Preservation of Faith: LDS Creation Accounts and the Composite Nature of Revelation”

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/conference/august-2019/a-paradoxical-preservation-of-faith

Recommended Books:

Why Religion? Elaine Pagels’ memoir

The New Copernicans: Millennials and the Survival of the Church - David John Seel Jr.

Out of the Best Books - S. Michael Wilcox 

The Mother Tree - Kathryn Knight Sonntag

The Great Work of Your Life - Stephen Cope

Essays:

“Jacob’s Answer to Parental Despair: The Olive Tree and the Antichrist”

By Joseph Grenny · July 7, 2022

https://latterdaysaintmag.com/jacobs-answer-to-parental-despair-the-olive-tree-and-the-antichrist/