Wednesday, September 30

Church News · 2 min

Boston-area Latter-day Saints hosted a "Latter-day Saint Night" at Fenway Park honoring interfaith and community leaders for years of collaborative charity work.

Church News · 3 min

A Church News hub article laying out the October 2026 general conference broadcast schedule and viewing options, meant to be updated later with talk summaries and photos once the conference happens.

Church News · 3 min

Two Church Historian's Press books on Latter-day Saint women's history, "Carry On" and "At the Pulpit," are now available as audiobooks in the Gospel Library and on Audible.

Church News · 2 min

Church News reports a Nov. 14, 2026 groundbreaking date for the Cuernavaca Mexico Temple, presided over by Elder Moisés Villanueva.

Church News · 2 min

The First Presidency has released the site map for the Otavalo Ecuador Temple, the first of three temples announced under President Dallin H. Oaks to have its exact location set.

Church Newsroom · 3 min

A Church Newsroom video (Spanish-language, titled "El don de la audición en Argentina" / "The gift of hearing in Argentina") follows Argentine children receiving hearing care funded by Light the World Giving Machine donations. This note is written in English; the transcript used was already in English (captioned/narrated), despite the Spanish title.

Church Newsroom · 3 min

The English-language cut of a Church Newsroom video following Argentine children whose hearing loss was treated through Light the World Giving Machine donations.

Church Newsroom · 2 min

A short Church Newsroom article rounds up the same-day announcements of the Cuernavaca Mexico Temple's Nov. 14 groundbreaking and the Otavalo Ecuador Temple's site details.

Church Newsroom · 4 min

A Church Newsroom preview article for the October 2026 World Report profiles Argentine children and young adults whose hearing loss was treated through Light the World Giving Machine donations.

BYU Speeches · 31 min

Columnist and author Ross G. Douthat lays out three converging lines of evidence, cosmic fine-tuning, human consciousness, and the persistence of religious and mystical experience, for treating a religious view of reality as the reasonable default for any serious modern person.

Christian Homestead · 31 min

A Christian Homestead video verifies a viewer's claim that Elder Neil L. Andersen taught the parable of the ten virgins to missionaries at a Provo MTC devotional, then uses that confirmation as a springboard to argue Church leaders are citing the ten virgins and other second-coming material more often than ever.

Christian Homestead · 59 min

An interview-style catch-up between the Christian Homestead host and returning guest Cabria (Will You Walk With Jesus) laying out why they believe recent developments in the Church, from leader-development rhetoric to repeated references to the parable of the ten virgins, point to the Second Coming being close.

Church History Matters Podcast · 75 min

Scott Woodward and Casey Griffiths close their three-part series on Orrin Porter Rockwell with a Q&A working through the contested stories, myths and controversial killings behind his legend, weighing each against the primary sources.

Why We Believe · 48 min

Former Utah Governor Gary Herbert talks with host Nathan Gwilliam about weaving his LDS faith through nearly 12 years in office, including a statewide fast to stop 2012-13 wildfires, leading Utah through the 2020 earthquake and COVID pandemic, and toasting President Obama with water instead of wine at a White House dinner.

RISE ZION · 29 min

Seth argues that General Conference has quietly shifted toward heavier emphasis on the Second Coming, backing it with a schedule change, frequency data from a searchable-talks analysis, and a growing archive of stake-conference reports, ahead of October 2026 conference.

Standard of Truth · 73 min

Standard of Truth host Gerrit Dirkmaat eulogizes a longtime listener and Joseph Smith Papers colleague, works through mailbag questions on early Latter-day Saint worship practices, then closes by taking apart the "where there's smoke, there's fire" logic and specific misstatements common in anti-Mormon radio content.

Unshaken · 42 min

A verse-by-verse walk through Isaiah 40:12-41:29, unpacking the imagery Isaiah reaches for to describe God's power and tenderness (oceans in His hand, idols that need nails to keep them upright, eagle's wings) and how it feeds into "How Firm a Foundation."

Unshaken · 280 min

A nearly five-hour verse-by-verse walk through Isaiah 36-49, recapping the Assyrian siege and Hezekiah's illness before spending most of its runtime on the shift to mercy in chapters 40-49: the "comfort ye" command, the Cyrus prophecies, the satire against idols, and the gathering imagery of chapters 48-49 tied to 1 Nephi and 2 Nephi.

Unshaken · 39 min

A verse-by-verse study of Isaiah 40:1-11 arguing that after 39 chapters weighted toward justice, God's first words to a scattered, chastened Judah are pure comfort rather than "I told you so," traced through the Hebrew grammar and into Handel's setting of the text in Messiah.

LDS Teaching Toolbox · 7 min

LDS Teaching Toolbox argues that fitting a Gospel lesson into the Church's shortened, roughly 25-minute Sunday School slot starts with seeking the Spirit through the prayer of faith and real scripture preparation, not cramming in more content.

Scripture Central · 33 min

Lynne Hilton Wilson works through Isaiah 50-57 as part of her "Handmaidens, Harems and Heroines" series, tracing the marriage/covenant metaphor (divorced mother, forsaken wife, bride) alongside the Suffering Servant passages of Isaiah 53 and their Book of Mormon parallels.