218. A New Book Every Time - A Conversation with Bob Rees

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🗓️ 1 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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This week, we're excited to have Bob Rees on the podcast. Bob is a true "long-haul hero" (to use Pete Davis's term) -- a Latter-day Saint who has been studying and writing on Latter-day Saint topics for more than fifty years. To us, Bob exhibits the best of what we have to offer theologically, and practically, to the world. Bob believes that the deepest power of the Book of Mormon, even more than its remarkable origin story, is its ultimate message of love. After a lifetime of serious st...

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0:28.4	Hey everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today we're so excited to have Bob Reese on the
0:33.4	podcast. Bob is a true long-haul hero to use Pete Davis's term, a Latter-day
0:38.2	saint who has been studying and writing on Latter-day Saint topics for more than
0:41.6	50 years.
0:43.0	And to us, Bob exhibits the best of what we have to offer
0:45.6	theologically and practically to the world.
0:48.3	Bob believes that the deepest power of the Book of Mormon,
0:50.5	even more than its remarkable origin story, is its ultimate message of love.
0:55.3	After lifetime of serious study and contemplation, he says that the goodness of the Book of Mormon
0:59.6	has simply changed his life.
1:01.8	In addition to the profound effect it's had on him he's also
1:04.3	endlessly fascinated by it. We could feel Bob's enthusiasm as he shared ideas for making
1:09.1	our reading of the Book of Mormon come alive. For example by doing midrash, imagining elaborations and
1:14.5	spin-offs that help us to flesh out the stories we find in the text. In many ways
1:18.7	Bob models how to have fun with the scriptures even as we learn from or wrestle with them and allow that work to
1:23.9	transform us. Bob has taught in humanities and Mormon studies at UCLA,
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