Wednesday, September 23

Dieter F. Uchtdorf · 9 min

Archival footage of a 1987 German television interview in which Dieter F. Uchtdorf, then a Lufthansa chief pilot and Frankfurt stake president, fields a reporter's questions about temples, marriage, polygamy, coffee, and dress codes during the Frankfurt Germany Temple open house.

BYU Speeches · 27 min

Elder Neil L. Andersen's BYU devotional on a Joseph Smith Translation verse inserted into Luke 14, arguing that students can settle their commitment to Christ firmly in the heart without first resolving every question in the mind.

Church News · 36 min

JustServe leaders Steve Bulpitt and LaDawn Stoddard tell Church News reporter Mary Richards how the platform works, what service has looked like during America250, and why they see service as the way disciples of Christ become like him.

Church News · 29 min

The Church News web page for podcast episode 313 carries an edited full transcript of Mary Richards's conversation with JustServe leaders Steve Bulpitt and LaDawn Stoddard on how service works through JustServe, America250, and everyday ministering, and how it makes disciples of Christ.

Church News · 2 min

The Gospel Library app added five new music tools — featured playlists, topic-based search, audio type selection, a stake-conference hymn board, and a metronome with guitar chord notation — to make sacred music easier to find and use in worship.

Church Newsroom · 4 min

A running index of Church temple news for 2026, topped by this week's entries: open houses beginning for the Wichita Kansas and San Luis Potosí Mexico temples.

Church Newsroom · 4 min

Excerpts from President Dallin H. Oaks' keynote on peacemaking and the US Constitution, delivered at Washington National Cathedral ahead of Constitution Day.

BYU-Idaho Speeches · 61 min

A new General Authority Seventy from the Philippines frames personal struggles as David-and-Goliath fights, told through his father's 1975 conversion, his own family's poverty and the death of an infant son, and the promise that the Lord's side has already won.

Thoughtful Faith · 17 min

Jacob Hansen uses Aristotle's distinction between essential and accidental properties to argue that "woman" must be defined by reproductive organization rather than by dress, mannerisms, or self-identification, then turns the argument on Latter-day Saint scholar Taylor Petrey's social-construction definition.

BYU Women's Conference · 31 min

A former religious educator's Women's Conference address on keeping hope in Christ through disappointment, anchored in her own loss of the ability to have children at 38 and her mother's long fight with ovarian cancer.

Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones · 60 min

Historian Don Bradley argues that Joseph Smith's first recorded acts with the plates and interpreters in the fall of 1827 fall on the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, and that his departure for Pennsylvania came exactly 40 days after he got the plates.

The Interpreter Foundation · 34 min

Religious educator Kevin L. Tolley walks through his small-plates conference paper arguing that Jacob's temple sermon in 2 Nephi 6 to 10 uses Isaiah 50 and 51 as priestly, pilgrimage-to-the-temple texts built around a servant figure and a cup of judgment.

The Stick of Joseph · 103 min

Jonah Barnes lectures on the ancient Ethiopic Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) — its dating, its heavy influence on New Testament language, and its parallels to Joseph Smith's own Enoch material in the Book of Moses — followed by an extended Q&A panel discussion.

Why We Believe · 47 min

Ali Essig tells the Why We Believe host how her husband's stroke at 37, despite a patriarchal blessing promising health through the Word of Wisdom, led her to reread D&C 89 in full and move her family to a mostly plant-based diet.

RISE ZION · 33 min

Rise Zion examines President Oaks' Washington National Cathedral address on peacemaking and the Constitution against a little-known 1904 recollection attributing a prophecy to Brigham Young about apostles being called to Washington.

Standard of Truth · 59 min

Recorded live in a church building in Nauvoo, Gerrit Dirkmaat reads minutes from the January 1841 Nauvoo Lyceum, an adult-education debating society where Joseph Smith taught that God organized the earth from existing matter, that spirits have no beginning, and that he had once been wrong about phrenology.

The Scriptures Are Real · 69 min

Kerry Muhlestein runs four Isaiah segments: Paul Hoskisson on Isaiah 14 as a double portrait of Babylon's king and Lucifer, a short interview with an author of Isaiah historical fiction, Shon Hopkin on Eliakim as "a nail in a sure place" in Isaiah 22, and Kerry's own reading of the divine-warrior imagery in Isaiah 25 and 27.

Jesus Christ in Scripture · 16 min

Tammy Hall and Dr. Donald W. Parry walk through Isaiah 40–49's imagery for the Atonement, focusing on the Hebrew words moshia (savior) and goel (redeemer).

Unshaken · 50 min

A verse-by-verse devotional through Isaiah 8–10, covering King Ahaz's failed trust in Assyria, Isaiah's symbolically named children, and the "unto us a child is born" prophecy behind Handel's Messiah.