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The Eternal Significance of Seven by Autumn Dickson There are many patterns in the Old Testament. The story of Naaman, the Syrian, falls right in line with one The post Come, Follow Me with FAIR – 2 Kings 2–7 – Part 2 – Autumn Dickson appeared first on FAIR .

Faith to Ask; Faith to Accept by Autumn Dickson One of our people from this week’s readings is Elisha. He is the prophet who was called after Elijah. We don’t get many of his words or sermons, but we do get to read about many miracles. One of those miracles includes a Shunammite woman who took […] The post Come, Follow Me with FAIR – 2 Kings 2–7 – Part 1 – Autumn Dickson appeared first on FA...

Martyrdom of Joseph & Hyrum Smith; Brigham Young led the Saints west (D&C 135–136) by Mike Parker (Mike Parker is a long-time FAIR member who has graciously allowed us to use materials he originally prepared for the Hurricane Utah Adult Religion Class. The scripture passages covered in his lessons don’t conform exactly to the Come, Follow […] The post Come, Follow Me with FAIR – Doct...

This podcast series features past FAIR Conference presentations. This presentation is from our 2021 conference held in August. If you would like to watch all the presentations from the conference, you can still purchase the video streaming. John Gee, Lessons on Doing Apologetics John Gee’s books are for sale in the FAIR bookstore. John Gee is […] The post FAIR Conference Podcast #75 – John G...

This week, listen to this discussion Hanna has with Jennifer Mackley and Steven Harper on who Wilford Woodruff is and how the project is going. Please see https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/ for more details about this exciting project. Jennifer has been an attorney for 24 years and is currently in private practice. She has authored or edited 21 […] The post FAIR Voice Podcast #27: Wilford Wo...

This podcast series features past FairMormon Conference presentations. This presentation is from our 2019 conference that was held last week. You can still purchase the video streaming if you would like to watch all the presentations. Elder Craig C. Christensen, Foundations of Our Faith Elder Craig C. Christensen was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of […] The post FairMormon Confere...

This podcast series features past FairMormon Conference presentations. Please join us for the 2019 FairMormon Conference coming up August 7-9! You can attend in person or purchase the video streaming. Jeffrey Bradshaw, Stories of the Saints in the DR Congo Transcript available here. Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw is a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida […] The post FairMormon Conference Podca...

Faith is Not Blind is a book by Elder Bruce C. and Sister Marie Hafen and published by Deseret Book. This book addresses the many ways that individuals encounter the challenges to developing faith or the language of testimony. In preparing to serve missions, while on a mission, or when someone returns from missionary service, […] The post Faith is Not Blind – Interview with Elder and S...

Welcome to the LDS MissionCast. To those of you who are new listeners to our show, thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy what this podcast has to offer as education and inspiration for missionary work in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each week we try to bring you interviews that […] The post From convert, to anti-mormon, to reconversion – Interview with Dusty Sm...

In this installment brother Ash explains the differences between what we consider as evidence versus proof in religious matters. The full text of this article can be found at Deseret News online. Brother Ash is author of the book Shaken Faith Syndrome: Strengthening One’s Testimony in the Face of Criticism and Doubt, as well as […] The post Fair Issues 100: Evidence versus proof appeared fir...

In this article brother Ash discusses how emotions play an integral part in our decision making process. The full text of this article can be found at Deseret News online. Brother Ash is author of the book Shaken Faith Syndrome: Strengthening One’s Testimony in the Face of Criticism and Doubt, as well as the book, of Faith and […] The post Fair Issues 99: Emotion is part of testimony and dec...

In this weeks issue brother Ash talks about how testimonies are balanced with reason and spiritual confirmation. The full text of this article can be found at Deseret News online. Brother Ash is author of the book Shaken Faith Syndrome: Strengthening One’s Testimony in the Face of Criticism and Doubt, as well as the book, […] The post Fair Issues 98: What critics don’t understand about...

Back in the day, late 60’s and the early 70’s just across the border in Rosarito Beach, Baja California the big “X” XERB was one of the flamethrower am radio stations of its day. The big “X” was the brainchild of Robert Weston Smith.  Bob Smith?  So who is Bob Smith?  If you don’t recognize […] The post 4th Watch 23: The challenge of discipleship appeared first on FAIR .

Some of the greatest questions that we have in life don’t arise from an unknown piece of information, rather the choices we make in the direction of our lives. There is one choice that is so fundamental that it requires both ernest study, and a lifetime of reappraisal and recommitment to that choice. I speak […] The post RiseUp Podcast – The Choice of Discipleship appeared first...

Every now and then you hear the story of an individual that is able to demonstrate incredible faith, and endurance, that is as uncommon as is their life experience. That is the case with Misty Nielson. Her story shows the importance of family, just perhaps not in the way you may think. Misty Nielson is 34 […] The post RiseUp Podcast: Acquainted with Grief – Interview with Misty Nielson...

Brother Nick Galieti, the podcast manager for FairMormon, asked for our personal testimony as a special gift this Easter. I responded that it would be an honor. Testimonies are often given in LDS sacrament meetings on a local level to a few hundred; but as a podcaster I get the privilege to share my testimony […] The post 4th Watch: My Testimony appeared first on FAIR .

Like all human begins we have our own personal preferences about everything in life.  There are things, people, ideas and places that we may like and prefer that others dislike that have nothing to do with being prejudiced.  When it comes to real prejudice we need to define what we are talking about. In this podcast […] The post 4th Watch 19: Why are Mormons prejudiced? appeared first on FAI...

This is a Mormon Fair-Cast news flash announcement. For the fourth year in a row, The Mormon Fair-Cast has been nominated for a People’s Choice Award for Best Podcast in the Religion Inspiration category. The People’s Choice Podcast Awards are an annual set of awards given to the best podcasts as voted on by listeners. Each year, […] The post Mormon Fair-Cast: Peoples Choice Podc...

In this podcast brother Ash relates how the work of Dr. John Sorenson and Randall Spackman come together to approach the textual elements of Book of Mormon geography in three main areas of scholarly assumptions.  Simplicity, consistency and uniformity. The full text of this article can be found at Deseret News online. Brother Ash is author of the book […] The post Fair Issues 79: A consisten...

This is the third and final podcast in this series on physiological issues from a practical standpoint.  We all have our own interpretations of how the world works and in this episode we evaluate how our personal understanding of life can become clouded by debilitating addictions and what we can do to about them. Obsessives compulsive disorder is […] The post 4th Watch 18: OCD and addiction...

Rich Milllar loved the Church as a teenager. He served a successful mission to Russia. After returning, he was fully committed to the Church and served as an elders quorum president. But he began to slowly lose his faith until, eventually, he decided the Church was not true and God did not exist. Find out why he […] The post Keeping the Faith 14: Leaving and Returning–Lessons Learned p...

This is part 2 of a two-part episode called Keeping the Faith 14: Leaving and Returning–Lessons Learned. The post Keeping the Faith 14: Leaving and Returning–Lessons Learned pt. 2 appeared first on FAIR .

In the concluding podcast of this series Karen talks about the prophecies of Jesus. The scriptures consist of 66 books, with over 40 authors, [and] were recorded over a span of 1500 years; they contain heavy prophetic threads. If we just think about a few books—take Daniel, written 500 years before Christ, and the meticulous descriptions of […] The post Mormon Fair-cast 330: #9 Is the Bible...

D.M. Johnson and I are back in this second-to-last podcast on the authenticity of the Bible. Today, we discuss undersigned coincidences. Undersigned coincidences are events or things in the Bible that could be coincidental, but there are just so many that they add up to real, compelling evidence. As D.M. explains, “It becomes a little […] The post Mormon Fair-cast 319: #8, Is the Bible an au...

Critics and skeptics have long attacked Jesus’ Resurrection. Why so?? Well, in short, if the Resurrection can be disproved, all the other claims about Jesus Christ can also be dismissed. Christianity would crumble. In this cast in the I Believe Podcast series on the Authenticity of the Bible (its reliability, not its perfection), guest D.M. Johnson and […] The post Mormon Fair-cast 314: #7,...