Thomas F. Rogers & Terryl Givens, "Risk-taking Discipleship" (MI Conversations)

In this episode, Terryl Givens sits down with Thomas F. Rogers to talk about risk-taking discipleship.
Maxwell Institute Conversations are special videocast episodes of the Maxwell Institute Podcast, hosted by Terryl Givens and created in collaboration with Faith Matters Foundation.
Thomas F. Rogers is a noted playwright, essayist, and scholar who taught Russian at Brigham Young University from 1969 to 2000. He also served as director of the BYU Honors Program in the 1970s. From 1993 to 1996, he was president of the LDS Church’s Russia St. Petersburg Mission, the subject of his memoir "A Call to Russia: Glimpses of Missionary Life" (Provo, UT: BYU Studies, 1999). Subsequently, he and his wife, Merriam, served in the Stockholm Sweden Temple. From 2007 until his release in 2014, Rogers was a traveling LDS patriarch assigned to the LDS Church’s Europe East Area. He is author of "Let Your Hearts and Minds Expand: Reflections on Faith, Reason, Charity, and Beauty" (Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2016). Tom and Merriam currently live in Bountiful, Utah, where he spends time painting and visiting their seven children and forty grandchildren.

[@fstaheli]

Thomas Rogers is a very inspirational man! As I've been listening to him talk about promptings, I've been thinking back and realizing some of the promptings that I've gotten in my life that have made all the difference.

[@kelaarin]

My mission president in Russia!