495: Fiona and Terryl Givens and "The Crucible of Doubt" Part 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2014
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In their latest book, The Crucible of Doubt, published by Deseret Book, Fiona and Terryl Givens tackle perhaps their most daunting -- and important -- subject to date: doubt in the context of Mormon faith.
- In Part 1, we interview a Mormon Stories listener and contributer, James Patterson, about his struggles with doubt and how the book helped him.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is James Patterson, Mormon Stories Podcast Producer. |
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| 0:57.5 | Hello and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm your host John DeLin. |
| 1:04.7 | It is August 27, 2014. |
| 1:07.4 | And as usual, I am so super excited to have with us our guests for today. |
| 1:12.4 | Two of them are repeat participants in Mormon Stories and one is new. |
| 1:17.3 | The repeat participants are the amazing, gifted, and talented. |
| 1:23.5 | So I won't drop into hero worship because your book explicitly warns against that. |
| 1:29.3 | But we have with us today, Terrell Givens and Fiona Givens. |
| 1:34.4 | We're here to talk about their new book, published by Deseret Book entitled The Crucible |
| 1:40.3 | of Doubt, Reflections on the Quest for Faith. |
| 1:44.5 | And just a brief intro about Terrell, he is a professor of literature and religion at |
| 1:49.8 | the University of Richmond in Virginia. |
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