Thursday, September 17

Church Newsroom · 54 min

The full August 22 groundbreaking service for the Victoria British Columbia Temple in Langford on Vancouver Island, presided over by Elder James E. Evanson of the Canada Area Presidency, with three local speakers, his address, the site dedicatory prayer, and four rotations of ceremonial shovels.

Church Newsroom · 50 min

The full September 12, 2026 groundbreaking for the Colorado Springs Colorado Temple, presided over by Elder Carl D. Hurst, a General Authority Seventy who is from England, with youth and local speakers, a children's and youth choir, a site dedication prayer and the shovel rotations.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · 23 min

President Dallin H. Oaks, keynoting the Washington National Cathedral's "A Better Way" gathering on September 16, argues that the Constitution compels a divided people to build coalitions, and that competing rights get reconciled through negotiated lawmaking rather than litigation.

Christian Homestead · 54 min

Jared reads his highlights from President Oaks' National Cathedral address and argues it may be a partial fulfillment of Joseph Smith's "Constitution hanging by a thread" prophecy, framed by Brigham Young quotes on the political kingdom of God in the millennium.

Christian Homestead · 27 min

Jared answers two viewer emails: one tracing a viral Harold B. Lee quote to a source that turns out not to contain it, and one pointing him to Elder Bruce R. McConkie's 1985 line about "the decades and ages" ahead before the Second Coming, which he reads against today's timeline.

followHIM Podcast · 5 min

Hank Smith tells John Bytheway Elder Ted E. Brewerton's 1991 account of his Irish ancestor, a nearly deaf grandmother who insisted on being baptized first through a hole in the ice, to illustrate Isaiah 29:18, "in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book."

followHIM Podcast · 114 min

Hank Smith and John Bytheway walk through Isaiah 13–35 for next week's Come, Follow Me with Kathryn Davis, a full-time institute teacher at Utah Valley University, who reads the destruction chapters as a setup for Jesus Christ as restorer and repairer, and for trusting God's timing when help comes late.

Scripture Central · 35 min

John Hilton III's Finding Christ in the Old Testament class on next week's Isaiah block takes four stops: the judgments on Babylon in chapters 13 and 14, his favorite verse in 25:8, Nephi's reworking of Isaiah 29 in 2 Nephi 26 and 27, and Isaiah's call in chapter 6.

Unshaken · 34 min

Jared Halverson's Unshaken devotional walks verse by verse through Isaiah 6 and 7: the throne vision and the coal on the lips, the hard "make the heart of this people fat" commission, then the Syro-Ephraimite crisis and the Immanuel sign given to a quaking King Ahaz.

RISE ZION · 28 min

Seth at Rise Zion reads the Missouri court filings in Zachary James McAlexander's pro se quiet-title suit against the Church of Christ (Temple Lot), explains the constructive-trust theory and its obstacles, and surfaces George Q. Cannon journal entries showing the First Presidency covertly funded the Church of Christ's defense of the same lot in the 1890s.

The Stick of Joseph · 82 min

Dave Butler sits down with his father Richard, an economist who makes watercolor-crayon videos, and his brothers Steve, an Iowa State math professor behind Beard Meets Calculus, and Dan, a political science professor behind LegoDaySaints, for an unplanned family conversation about making things cheaply, teaching, and why each of them is on YouTube.