Latter-day Saint faith with room to breathe.
Faith Matters treats Latter-day Saint faith as something lived in families, institutions, history, and moments of uncertainty. Recent conversations move from raising children with spiritual care to staying connected when someone leaves church, confronting hard history, and practicing peace under pressure.
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Faith Matters is a Latter-day Saint conversation show for people who want faith to be both rooted and honest. It spends time with questions that do not resolve cleanly. Recent episodes circle around family life, church belonging, scripture, history, moral courage, and peacemaking. The show’s register is warm and careful, with a strong bias toward relationships over argument. A conversation with Meredith Miller asks how children can receive scripture and spiritual formation without unnecessary fear or confusion. The discussion is practical. It treats children as real people with different ages, experiences, and capacities for difficult stories. Another episode, with Joseph Grenny and Jeff Strong, focuses on the tender moment when someone loved says they are leaving the church. The emphasis is not on winning the conversation. It is on staying regulated, noticing hidden fear, and protecting love and trust without abandoning belief. Faith Matters also reaches into public memory and moral history. Its live conversation with Matt Whitaker follows the story behind Truth and Treason, a film about Helmut Huebner and resistance in Nazi Germany. That episode links conscience, truth-telling, and the frightening cost of standing against a surrounding culture. The show’s peacemaking conversations are similarly concrete. At Proclaim Peace, fear is treated as a real force that shapes conflict, collaboration, and the emotional room available for people to hear one another. Historical episodes add another layer. Lisa Olson Tate and Scott Hales discuss Saints, globalization, correlation, and painful events that require direct attention rather than silence. Across these conversations, Faith Matters is less interested in polished certainty than in mature spiritual practice. It lets belief sit beside grief, doubt, repair, and institutional complexity. The result is measured, pastoral, and intellectually serious without becoming combative. It suits listeners who want Latter-day Saint faith discussed with patience, candor, and moral imagination.
Made for: For Latter-day Saint listeners, families, and seekers who want reflective conversations about belief, doubt, history, parenting, and peace. It especially suits people trying to stay spiritually serious without flattening hard questions.
What sets it apart: Faith Matters stands out by pairing pastoral tenderness with direct engagement: leaving church, teaching children scripture, resistance, painful history, and conflict are treated as lived realities rather than abstract debates.
Faith Matters offers an expansive view of the Restored Gospel, thoughtful exploration of big and sometimes thorny questions, and a platform that encourages deeper engagement with our faith and our world. We focus on the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) tradition, but believe we have much to learn from other traditions and fully embrace those of other beliefs.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A careful conversation about giving children faith in a way that honors both scripture and the child hearing it.
Faith Matters centers on a tender parenting question: how adults can help children grow in faith while still growing themselves, and how they can avoid passing along beliefs their children may later need to untangle.
A steady, humane guide to staying connected when a loved one's faith begins to change.
Faith Matters takes a painful family question - what to say when someone you love says they are leaving the church - and turns it toward the quieter moment before anyone answers.
A candid, measured conversation about how a church learns to tell its history more openly.
Faith Matters looks at the completed Saints history series through a conversation with Lisa Olson Tate and Scott Hales on Volume 4, covering the church from 1955 to 2020. Its strongest thread is the idea of a church learning to face its own history with more candor.
Latter-day Saint faith, argued out loud.
Latter-day Saint scholarship in conversation.
A season-by-season history show pairing dramatized Rasputin and Salem narratives with historian interviews.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Weekly Portuguese-language sermons from Pastor Pedro Bastoge on scripture, end times, and church life.
MJ Dorian's solo deep dives trace genius through Blake, McQueen, da Vinci, and Jung's Red Book.
Faith Matters hosts a conversation with historians Lisa Olsen Tait and Scott Hales, general editors of the LDS Church's official history series Saints.
Faith Matters features Meredith Miller, author of Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn't Have to Heal From, in a conversation with Aubrey Chavez about parenting, scripture, and trust-based faith.
Joseph Grenny and Jeff Strong discuss what to say when a child says they are leaving the church, using Kendra and Alyssa’s conversation as a detailed example.
A conversation about W.H.
Faith Matters host Aubrey Chavez interviews Tucker Boyle, a former seminary and institute teacher whose doctoral research on Joseph Smith’s leadership challenged his black-and-white view of early church history.
Teresa Morgan, a Yale Divinity School professor and early Christian historian, argues that Greek pistis and Latin fides originally centered on trust, faithfulness, trustworthiness, and entrustedness.
Bruce Tift, author and psychotherapist, explains how Already Free combines Western psychotherapy with Vajrayana Buddhist ideas about awareness, limitation, and freedom.
A live interview with filmmaker Matt Whitaker about his film 'Truth and Treason,' telling the story of a Latter-day Saint teen in Nazi Germany who resisted the regime.
A discussion about navigating fear and conflict from a Latter-day Saint perspective, with a Mother's Day gift promotion.