Tuesday, September 8

Church News · 39 min

Jason Carroll of BYU's Wheatley Institute walks through the National Dating Landscape Survey — only one in three young adults date monthly — and then spends most of the episode on what the "positive outliers" in the data are doing differently, organized as five C's.

Church History Matters Podcast · 55 min

Scott Woodward and Casey Griffiths bring on Scripture Central founder Jack Welch to argue that September 21 should become a Latter-day Saint holiday, and to work out what actually celebrating it would look like.

RISE ZION · 17 min

Signs at the Fairview Texas temple construction site were spray-painted twice in two months — once "MAGA," once "TRUMP IS GOD" — and Seth uses it to trace the two-year zoning fight and argue that hostility toward the Church is now arriving from the political right as well as the left.

RISE ZION · 33 min

A straight, commentary-free reupload of an Ezra Taft Benson BYU devotional on preparing for the great day of the Lord — no Rise Zion intro, no framing, no outro, just the talk.

Christian Homestead · 46 min

Jared reads through Mark E. Petersen's 1976 BYU talk "America—World Leader" and argues that the "rapidly emerging" destiny of the United States — preparing for the Second Coming — is visibly accelerating now, evidenced by temple-site history, general-conference word frequencies, and Midwest membership growth.

Christian Homestead · 42 min

A McConkie passage places the 144,000 on Mount Zion in Missouri rather than the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem — a distinction Jared says he'd been conflating for years — and he rebuilds his whole 144,000 file around it.

Informed Saints · 59 min

Jasmin Rappleye, Neal Rappleye, and Stephen Smoot assemble a timeline of Latter-day Saint Sabbath worship from 1830 to the 2026 two-hour block, with the argument that nearly everything we mean by "church" is younger than we assume.

LDS Teaching Toolbox · 5 min

A trailer for an upcoming mini-series on teaching under the shortened Sunday schedule, built entirely on a handcart analogy: when the load limit drops, you carry only what's critical.