Thomas McConkie's back, and this could change your life

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We have been waiting a long time for this episode with our friend Thomas McConkie. As many of you know, Thomas is an incredibly skilled meditation teacher and guide on the path of spiritual awakening. Faith Matters produced his very popular online course Transformations of Faith and also published his incredible book At-One-Ment, which has deeply impacted so many readers. For the last several years, Thomas has been doing graduate work at Harvard Divinity School. All the while, we have b...

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Terrell Givens. I'm excited to announce that I'll be leading a series of conversations
0:04.2	every month beginning in January of 2025 at the Compass of downtown Provo. We'll be tackling
0:10.3	some of the big questions of our faith with some of the most expansive and brilliant minds in our
0:15.6	tradition. And the audience will be invited to participate as well. Faith Matters wants to make the
0:21.1	compass a center for art and intellectual life on the Wasatch Front, so come join us for the
0:27.1	Big Questions series. And if you don't live here, no worries, we'll be offering a live
0:32.0	streaming option as well. I hope to see you there. This month, on February 20th at 7 p.m., Terrell will be joined by
0:39.6	Maxwell Institute scholar Rosalind Welch to explore the origins of the Book of Mormon, with questions
0:45.9	such as, what is the relevance of gold plates today? Does their materiality matter? Did Joseph
0:53.1	use them to translate? Why did they disappear from the story?
0:57.8	And is history as theology perilous? Don't miss it. That's February 20th at 7 p.m.
1:05.6	Get your tickets at faith matters.org slash big questions.
1:10.4	Hey everybody. This is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters.
1:13.4	We are so excited about this episode today.
1:15.9	It's been a long time coming and we finally get to share it with you.
1:19.3	As many of you know, Thomas McConkey is an incredibly skilled meditation teacher and guide
1:24.0	on the path of spiritual awakening.
1:26.2	And at Faith Matters, we were able to help him produce a popular online course called
1:30.0	Transformations of Faith years ago, and then published his incredible book at One Mint,
1:34.4	which has deeply impacted so many readers, ourselves included.
1:37.9	And so for the last several years, while Thomas has been doing graduate work at Harvard
1:41.2	Divinity School, we've been exploring with him the possibility of
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