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Depression Nearly Destroyed This Mission President, Until He Felt the Savior's Love (with Brent L. Top)

June 26, 2026

Brent L. Top spent 34 years teaching the gospel at Brigham Young University, where he rose to Dean of Religious Education and wrote more than 30 books. For years he had counseled students to cast their burdens on the Lord. Then the relentless weight of leading a mission brought him to a breaking point, and he had to find out if he truly believed what he had taught.In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Brent to trace a faith tested across a lifetime. Brent shar...

He Has Felt the Joy of Forgiveness, So He Knows the Atonement Is Real. (with Craig Ostler)

June 24, 2026

Craig Ostler has spent more than 40 years teaching the Restoration. He taught seminary and institute for 15 years, then 28 years at Brigham Young University, and co-wrote a 1,200-page commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants with Joseph Fielding McConkie. He has photographed and walked nearly every sacred site in early Church history, and he lived in Jerusalem with his family twice. With all of that study behind him, he will still tell you a testimony is not built from books. It is felt. He f...

Mark Mabry: Reflections of Christ Photographer Faced Nine Months of No Faith

June 19, 2026

What happens when a photographer feels prompted to delete every song from his computer and throw away all his art books? Mark Mabry did not know it then, but those quiet impressions were preparing him to create Reflections of Christ, the first mainstream photographic depiction of Jesus Christ.In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with Mark to hear how his bishop arrived unannounced one afternoon to set him apart as a photographer for an art form that had never been...