How Personal Peace Fuels Global Change - A Conversation with Thomas McConkie

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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We’re excited to share something special with you. Today we're featuring an episode from the Proclaim Peace Podcast because we were so touched by this powerful conversation that feels especially meaningful right now—with an election right around the corner. In this episode, Patrick Mason, Jennifer Thomas, and their guest Thomas McConkie, explore how meaningful action doesn't come from this energy of frantic box-checking or a striving for perfection, but from a heart transformed by grace....

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. Today we're so excited to share
0:04.4	something really special with you. We're going to feature an episode from the Proclaim Peace
0:08.4	podcast because we were so touched by this powerful conversation that feels so especially
0:13.2	meaningful right now with an election right around the corner. In this episode
0:17.3	Patrick Mason, Jennifer Thomas, and their guest Thomas McConkey,
0:20.4	explore how meaningful action doesn't come from this energy of frantic box checking or
0:25.2	striving for perfection, but from a heart that's transformed by grace.
0:29.8	So instead of trying to engineer a life of perfection to earn grace, Grace comes first.
0:35.1	It changes us from the inside.
0:37.1	And then the goodness that follows flows naturally.
0:40.2	As Thomas puts it, we have a sequencing problem.
0:42.8	Reflecting on the story of Alma, they explore how prioritizing this spiritual inner work
0:47.6	can help us align with love and find deep peace that can become both the fuel and the foundation of the meaningful work that we do in the world.
0:55.2	This conversation is so full of insight and encouragement and we are so excited for you to hear it.
1:00.4	So with that we'll pass it over to proclaimclaim Peace with Jennifer Thomas, Patrick Mason, and Thomas
1:04.8	McConkey.
1:05.8	Welcome to the Proclaim Peace Podcast.
1:11.0	I'm Jennifer Thomas.
1:12.2	And I'm Patrick Mason Mason and this is the
1:13.8	podcast where we apply principles of the Gospel and read the Book of Mormon
1:17.0	to become better peacemakers.
1:20.3	How are you doing, Jen? I'm doing Patrick, but I am really looking forward to this
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