Today we’re sharing another fun session from last year’s Restore gathering—one of the most unforgettable moments from the whole weekend—featuring Mauli Bonner.
Mauli has spent the past two decades in the entertainment industry, developing and writing for Grammy-winning artists and directing music for film and TV, and he also co-founded the nonprofit Lift Up Voices to empower young voices through creativity and community.
In this session, Mauli shares a wild, personal story that starts with a quiet spiritual prompting and ends with an act of radical trust that left the entire room stunned. He offers a moving look at what it really means to live a faith-filled life—one that’s non-transactional, that doesn't guarantee we’ll see the fruit of our actions, but that still says yes to being God’s hands.
We hope this session helps you catch a glimpse of the kind of spirit and depth you’ll experience at Restore this year, happening September 25–27 in Orem, Utah.
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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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Supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, Wayfare Magazine announces a call for essays and creative works exploring the themes of latter-day science and restorative modernity. We anticipate that the resulting Latter-day Science forums will support a Spring 2026 special issue of Wayfare Magazine, published in both print and digital formats, alongside separately solicited essays, reprints of classic essays, and other creative works (art, hymns, fiction, poetry, etc.).
The forum co-editors, neuroscientist Madeline Peterson and media scholar Benjamin Peters, invite you to explore the dynamic relationship between science, religion, and modernity through a Latter-day Saint lens. We seek nonfiction and fictional stories—narratives previously untold or overlooked—that the LDS tradition can reclaim and contribute to modern knowledge, enriching our collective understanding of a material, evolving, emergent cosmos and humanity's entangled place within it.
The LDS tradition, with its emphasis on continuous revelation and the pursuit of truth, offers a unique vantage point for considering the interplay between the earthly and the divine. What do the last two hundred years of science, religion, and modernity have to offer one another? How might the theo-scientific resources emerging from the entanglement of the Latter-day Saint tradition and modern science since the 1820s help address fundamental questions?
We aim to advance thoughtful narratives, close readings, novel theorizations, renewed inquiries, and other creative works that broaden understanding of the human condition in a working cosmos.
The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2025. For questions, write us at wayfareeditor@gmail.com.
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How does the story that you are a child of God, with a spark of divinity, impact you? How does it either complement or contrast with the other stories you tell yourself?
What is one of your relationships that feels stuck? How is grace inviting you to return to your true self, to this person, or to God?
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