217. Surveying the Saints — A Conversation with Josh Coates

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This week, we’re sharing a fascinating conversation we had with Josh Coates, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of the BH Roberts Foundation. The BH Roberts Foundation is the non-profit behind Mormonr, a producer of Latter-day Saint media that tackles hard questions about the faith, as well as "LDSBot," an AI-driven chatbot that is able to handle just about any question about Latter-day Saint culture and theology shockingly well. In February of this year, Josh and his collea...

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0:28.4	Hey everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today we're sharing a fascinating conversation that we had with
0:33.7	Josh Coates, a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and founder of the B.H. Roberts Foundation.
0:39.0	The B.H. Roberts Foundation is the nonprofit behind More Manor, a producer of Latter-day Saint media that tackles hard questions
0:44.4	about our faith, as well as LDS Bot, an AI-driven chatbot that is able to handle just
0:49.6	about any question about Latter-day Saint Culture and theology shockingly well.
0:53.6	And in February of this year, Josh and his colleague Stephen Cranny
0:56.7	published the results of yet another project,
0:59.2	a survey of a representative sample of active and former Latter-day Saints that the B.H. Roberts Foundation
1:04.4	conducted. The survey found that among active Latter-day Saints two clusters emerged.
1:09.4	80% of the sample had fairly orthodox beliefs around God, the Church, and the historicity of the Book
1:14.3	Mormon, while 20% expressed some uncertainty and held less traditional views.
1:19.3	The survey also integrated questions from Jonathan Heights' moral foundations theory, which attempts to suss out how different kinds of people build their ethical perspectives.
1:27.0	And this part of the survey found some really fascinating differences here between active Latter-day Saints and former Latter-day Saints that we think could really help us understand each other better.
1:35.1	We spent some time with Josh talking about the different values and gifts
1:37.7	that these two clusters of practicing members can bring to the church,
1:40.8	and how neither group alone can bring to bear the full gifts of the community on its own.
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