Today, we’re excited to bring you a special episode—a replay of one of our favorite sessions from last year’s Restore Gathering, featuring Dave Butler.
We’re also thrilled to let you know that Restore 2025 is happening this September 25–27 in Orem, Utah, and this episode is a great preview of the kind of experience you can expect—thoughtful, joyful, expansive, and rooted in a deep desire to love and understand more fully.
In this session, Dave explores the idea of Holy Envy—a concept that invites us to not just tolerate other faiths, but to find deep beauty and truth in them. He shares beautiful personal stories and wrestles with how to honor the uniqueness of our own tradition while also recognizing the divine fingerprints in others.
He ultimately offers a powerful vision of restoration—not as something narrow or exclusive, but as a healing and gathering work that makes room for the whole human family.
This session made us laugh, think, and feel more committed to becoming people who love well, across all kinds of differences. We hope it does the same for you—and that it gives you a taste of what’s coming at Restore this year.
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FORGET SUNDANCE, COME TO THE WAYFARE FILM FESTIVAL
As part of the 2025 Wayfare Festival, join us for a screening of The Angel and Java Jive, films by Barrett and Jessica Burgin. Afterwards, there will be a discussion of the films and LDS filmmaking in general with Barrett Burgin, Joshua Sabey, and Sarah Perkins.
WHEN: JULY 12TH, 7PM
WHERE: THE HOMESTEAD RESORT
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Our friends Jeff Strong and Joseph Grenny are working to understand how Latter-day Saints navigate hard conversations about differences in belief. These moments can lead to misunderstanding, strained relationships, even broken friendships or marriages—but they can also build trust and connection. By learning what helps and what hurts, they hope to create tools that make these conversations more common and successful, build understanding and trust, and help us become peacemakers in our community.
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What if Heaven is grander and broader and more inclusive that we imagined? What if God is more merciful and just than we can comprehend?
What does the vision of the three degrees of glory mean for me? Is it ever too late, for me or for someone I love?
How can I best serve God and others?
How can I receive revelation? How can I keep my covenant to live the law of consecration? What is my role to play in the larger body of Christ? Does our faith have a unique story to tell about creation, human origins and humanity’s relationship with the earth?
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What scars of yours have been redeemed or transformed into gifts of perspective, growth, compassion, or strength? How did that happen? Did you feel God in the process? When did you confront a totally unjust or evil situation? Was God there? If so, what was God’s role? Read excerpts from the next two chapters of Gracing and join our online discussion here:
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