Jared Halverson is an American Ph.D. student in Historical Studies, with a focus on American religious history but with an eye to its European antecedents. He teaches at the University of Utah Institute of Religion for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Originally from Southern California, Jared served a two-year mission in Puerto Rico and was a teacher, supervisor, and researcher at the Missionary Training Center.
He has also taught religion courses at the high school and college level since 1998. Jared is frequently involved with interfaith dialogue. Additionally, he has been a featured speaker in both devotional and academic settings from coast to coast. Currently, he hosts a popular YouTube channel and podcast called “Unshaken.”
Jared was born in Southern California, United States. He is around 55 years old, but, he keeps his marital status private. Therefore, his exact date and year of birth are not known to the public.
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 1.72 m).
He was born and raised in Southern California by his parents. Jared holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. Information about his parents and/or siblings is not available at the moment.
Jared married his beautiful wife Emily Stoddard. The couple celebrated their wedding in 1999 in the San Diego Temple. Together, they share five children, ranging in age from 12 to 20, and live in Cedar Hills, Utah.
He studied in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, where earned a Ph.D. in Historical Studies with a focus on American religious history. While in college, Jared sometimes became called upon to speak to college classes or to non-LDS congregations in the Nashville community to explain his religious beliefs, especially during the Mitt Romney presidential run.
He studied history and religious education at Brigham Young University. Additionally, he was an avid athlete in high school, football, and track, and interacted with a broad spectrum of religions among his boyhood friends.
In March of 2020, Jared created a YouTube channel called Unshaken, and six months later he hit his one-millionth view. As people around the world are eagerly pursuing an unshaken faith in God by immersing themselves in His word. More and more viewers have been asking for an audio-only version of the lessons on Unshaken. Therefore, he hosts a podcast Unshaken as an attempt to meet those needs.
On the podcast, Jared explores restored scripture, doctrine, history, and practice. He examines patterns and pitfalls in navigating faith crises and wrestles with ways to make your faith unshaken.
In addition to his career, Jared is also an author of the following books.
Loosing and Binding, and Lord’s Day (2009–2024)
Hate and Hermeneutics: Interpretive Authority in Luther’s On the Jews and Their Lies (2014)
The Rejection and Rehabilitation of Worship in the Old Testament (2013)
Lehi’s Dream and Nephi’s Vision as Apocalyptic Literature (2011)
Writing in the Margins: Canonization and the Ordering of Charisma (2011)
Of Soils and Souls: The Parable of the Sower (2008)
The Problem of Pride: A Book of Mormon Perspective (2004)
Jared’s research and writing have ranged from the place of the Book of Mormon in the 19th-century popular imagination to canonical constraints within New Religious Movements. It also ranged from religious epistemology in antebellum America to biblical rhetoric in US Presidential inaugural addresses. True to his interests in humor as a polemical device, Jared has written and presented research on the rhetoric of ridicule in 16th century anti-Semitism, 18th-century anti-Methodism, and 19th-century anti-Mormonism.
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Jared’s estimated net worth is $875,432.
Jared is an American Ph.D. student in Historical Studies, with a focus on American religious history but with an eye to its European antecedents. He teaches at the University of Utah Institute of Religion for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Jared is around 55 years old, but, he keeps his marital status private. Therefore, his exact date and year of birth are not known to the public.
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