Episode 11
Friday, September 25
16 min · 5 videos · Church News, Church Newsroom, RISE ZION, The Stick of Joseph
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In this episode
Latter-day Saint volunteers build homes with Habitat for Humanity in Romania
2:50Church News · 3 min
European young adult Latter-day Saints spent a week in August building homes with Habitat for Humanity Romania, framing the literal foundation work as a lesson about grounding faith in Christ.
The Church releases its 2027 calendar of churchwide broadcasts and key events
4:28Church Newsroom · 10 min
The Church's full 2027 calendar of churchwide broadcasts, devotionals, and key dates, laid out month by month, with the Salt Lake Temple's public celebration as the year's headline event.
Elder Cook to address young adults at the November Worldwide Devotional
6:55Church Newsroom · 2 min
The Church Newsroom's version of the same Elder Cook November Worldwide Devotional for Young Adults announcement, with matching dates and viewing details.
RISE ZION reads the Andersen and Dushku BYU devotionals side by side
8:12RISE ZION · 32 min
A host reads two BYU devotionals a week apart, Elder Neil L. Andersen's "spirit of consecration" and Elder Alexander Dushku's "crossing the Rubicon of faith," side by side and argues they are deliberately connected.
The Stick of Joseph on the Mar Saba letter and a secret gospel of Mark
10:57The Stick of Joseph · 50 min
Jonah Barnes and guests dig into the 1958-discovered "Mar Saba letter," a text attributed to Clement of Alexandria that references a secret, more spiritual gospel of Mark, and use it as a case study for why LDS temple ritual and secrecy fit the earliest Christian pattern.
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