{"podcast":{"title":"Faith Matters","slug":"faith-matters-329292","podcast_index_feed_id":329292,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/719454.rss","website_url":"https://faithmatters.org","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/lwd42a1zmrnfjefpv214abb0jouj?.jpg","author":"Faith Matters Foundation","episode_count":333,"summary":"Faith Matters offers an expansive view of the Restored Gospel, thoughtful exploration of big and sometimes thorny questions, and a platform that encourages deeper engagement with our faith and our world. We focus on the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) tradition, but believe we have much to learn from other traditions and fully embrace those of other beliefs.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faith-matters-329292"},"episode":{"title":"Bruce Tift: Already Free","slug":"bruce-tift-already-free","published_at":"2026-02-15T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faith-matters-329292/bruce-tift-already-free","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faith-matters-329292","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/719454/episodes/18670738-bruce-tift-already-free.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/719454/episodes/18670738-bruce-tift-already-free.mp3","summary":"Today we’re so excited to share our conversation with Bruce Tift, author, psychotherapist and longtime practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism. This summer, our friends at Uplift Kids introduced us to Bruce’s fascinating book Already Free, and we’ve been thinking about it ever since. In this conversation, Bruce dives into some of the ideas in the book. He explores how to make peace with being human. He looks at two seemingly opposing paths—both Western and Eastern wisdom—and shows how each offers ...","meta_description":"Today we’re so excited to share our conversation with Bruce Tift, author, psychotherapist and longtime practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism. This summer, ou…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3112,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/faith-matters-329292/episodes/bruce-tift-already-free/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/faith-matters-329292/bruce-tift-already-free.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}