Thursday, September 24

Church News · 4 min

Speaking in Spanish outside Chicago and to 240 meetinghouses across the U.S. Central Area, Elder Clark G. Gilbert told Hispanic youth they are central to the Church's future and pressed two invitations, serve a mission and get more education.

Church News · 4 min

A roundup of recent Church education donations in Tonga, Brazil, Paraguay, Guatemala, Rwanda and the Philippines, from school furniture to computer labs and water tanks.

Church News · 2 min

FamilySearch named actress Jane Seymour and genetic genealogist CeCe Moore as the first keynote speakers for RootsTech 2027, alongside the opening of registration.

Church News · 6 min

At a September 22 Provo MTC devotional, Elder Neil L. Andersen taught 2,800 missionaries to liken the scriptures to themselves, memorize the ones that move them, and read seven of the Savior's parables as instructions for missionary work.

Church News · 4 min

Ensign College President Bruce C. Kusch gave six principles for understanding God's individual plan for you at a September 22 devotional, from patriarchal blessings to patience.

Church News · 4 min

Elder James O. Fantone, a General Authority Seventy, told BYU–Idaho students that personal battles, like his father's fight with addiction in 1975 Manila, are won with the Lord fighting alongside.

Church News · 4 min

The Church News write-up of Elder Alexander Dushku's September 22 BYU devotional, which asked students to "cross the Rubicon of faith" and choose the full Christ of the Restoration over the world.

Church Newsroom · 3 min

A Newsroom recap of the third U.S. Northeast Area young single adult "Cities of Light" conference in New York City, September 18–20, which closed with an Elder Ulisses Soares devotional at Lincoln Center.

Church Newsroom · 1 min

A short FamilySearch announcement that registration is open for RootsTech 2027, March 4–6 in Salt Lake City and online, under the theme "Celebrate!"

Church Newsroom · 1 min

A three-paragraph Church statement responding to outside research on its membership, pointing to official records of growth and the 90,000 full-time missionaries now serving.

Christian Homestead · 15 min

Jared reads recent AI headlines onto his "timeline of artificial intelligence" spreadsheet: Trump's proposed "AI Force" and AI czar, a UN remark renaming AI "superintelligence," and reported incidents of AI agents hacking outside companies.

Christian Homestead · 29 min

Jared reads Pew's new September 22 report on Latter-day Saints, which puts retention of those raised in the Church at 54% (down from 70% in 2007), and reads that "about half" as a fulfillment of the five-of-ten ratio in the parable of the ten virgins.

Christian Homestead · 38 min

Jared proposes a parallel between Methuselah, Lamech and Noah and the Nelson–Oaks–Eyring First Presidency, built on Methuselah dying in the year of the Flood and President Eyring's repeated Teton Dam flood story.

Christian Homestead · 19 min

Jared reads a 1974 Ensign account of a Swiss branch president who saw "tongues of fire" above the stand at a 1954 Basel meeting, then pairs it with David O. McKay's sense of an "unseen audience" at the 1955 Bern Switzerland Temple dedication.

Standard of Truth · 71 min

In a mailbag episode, after a Francis Scott Key myth-bust, Dirkmaat and Lloyd answer a missionary's questions from a Protestant investigator: who decides what in the Bible is "translated correctly," and grace versus works.

Standard of Truth · 66 min

Garrett Dirkmaat and Richard Lloyd start a new "apostate hall of shame" segment with an "outside looking in" pick: Joseph Wakefield, an early missionary the Lord praised by name in D&C 50 who turned on the Church after section 76 and helped hire Philastus Hurlbut.

Keystone · 35 min

An interview with David Jordan, former U.S. attorney for Utah and the Church's lead lawyer in its trademark suit against John Dehlin and the Open Stories Foundation, walking through the failed mediation and what the Church says it is asking for.

RISE ZION · 37 min

Seth plays and comments on long clips of Elder Neil L. Andersen's BYU devotional "settle this in your hearts," which covers reason and revelation, an "answers forthcoming" box for hard questions, and what he calls the spirit of consecration.

RISE ZION · 20 min

Seth sets the Church's 90,000-missionary milestone against research on American Christianity's decline and argues that the Church's family-centered model and stable population share put it in position for the growth leaders have prophesied.

BYU Speeches · 27 min

Elder Alexander Dushku's full September 22 BYU devotional: cross the "Rubicon of faith," choose the full Christ of the Restoration over the world, and understand the Atonement as Christ Himself, not an impersonal power.

followHIM Podcast · 6 min

A six-minute followHIM Favorites short pairing Isaiah 41:10 with Elder Michael A. Dunn's account of surviving a grizzly bear attack on a solo training run.

followHIM Podcast · 118 min

S. Michael Wilcox reads Isaiah 40–49 as God describing Himself: a God of "infinite power granting deepest intimacy," likening it personally, as Nephi invites, so that it brings comfort, hope and rejoicing.

Scripture Central · 38 min

John Hilton III reads Isaiah 40–49 as messages of hope for Jews in Babylonian exile, modeling three ways into the text (a historical map, simpler Bible translations and AI prompts) and landing on Christ walking with us through the fire.

Unshaken · 64 min

A verse-by-verse walk through Isaiah 25–28: the feast of fat things, perfect peace for the mind "stayed on thee," the redeemed vineyard, and Isaiah 28's images of apostasy, including the bed too short to stretch out on.

Unshaken · 27 min

A verse-by-verse segment on Isaiah 23 and 24: the "burden of Tyre" as the fall of economic Babylon, then Isaiah 24's picture of apostasy as a broken everlasting covenant and a remnant that returns.

Jesus Christ in Scripture · 10 min

Part one of a two-part "thoughts to keep in mind" segment on the house of Israel, with Don Parry, framing the scriptures as Israel's record and answering where the lost tribes are: scattered among all nations.