Fiona Givens

Fiona Givens was born in Nairobi, educated in British convent schools, and converted to the LDS church in Frankfurt-am-Main. Since retiring as a teacher of French and German in Richmond, Virginia schools, she has become a full-time independent scholar. Fiona is a frequent podcast speaker and presenter at conferences and Deseret Book’s Time Out for Women series, and has been published in Journal of Mormon History, LDS Living, Exponent II, Dialogue, and other venues. With Terryl, she is the author of The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith, and the forthcoming The Christ Who Heals. Fiona, and her husbandTerryl, make their home on a few acres of woodland in Montpelier, Virginia.