Today’s guest is Terryl Givens, a prolific LDS author and scholar. Givens is a senior research fellow at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship and joins us to discuss faith, studying the scriptures, and on being a true disciple of Jesus Christ.
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3:04 - Family
3:53- Early years
4:20 - A whirlwind romance
5:10 - Teaching comparative literature
8:11 - The author
8:47 - Having faith
22:31 - Being a true disciple
25:15 - Being a witting disciple
27:29 - Believing all the right things for the wrong reason
30:01 - The Crucible of Doubt
31:34 - Being intimate with the gospel
35:13 - Drinking deeply from the scriptures
42:18 - Struggling with the scriptures
44:23 - How he studies the scriptures
48:45 - Note-taking
53:54 - Testimony
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