Thursday, October 1

Church News · 8 min

How stakes in Ohio, Arizona, Nevada and Utah run the Church's disability activity program for members with intellectual disabilities, with the handbook rules behind it and what leaders and families say it changes.

Church News · 4 min

How the Church's Caring for Women and Children Initiative grouped eight humanitarian organizations into four consortia that work together across 12 high-need countries, drawn from a Church News podcast episode.

Church News · 5 min

Institute of Religion marked its centennial with a young single adult conference and devotional in Moscow, Idaho, on Sept. 26, exactly 100 years after J. Wyley Sessions was sent there to start "collegiate seminaries."

Church Newsroom · 45 min

The Church's semiannual video news roundup for October 2026, covering President Oaks's National Cathedral address, the Salt Lake Temple renovation and open house plans, humanitarian work, apostolic travel and recent temple dedications.

Church Newsroom · 5 min

Relief Society General President Camille N. Johnson spent three days in her home region of Southeast Idaho, touring a foster care center, a food pantry and a humanitarian center, and speaking to more than 1,800 women.

Christian Homestead · 25 min

The host speculates that Revelation 9's 200-million-strong army at Armageddon could be literal if much of it is AI agents, drones and robots rather than human soldiers.

RISE ZION · 23 min

Actor Rainn Wilson's recent Temple Square visit, including a Tabernacle Choir rehearsal and a conversation with Elder Peter M. Johnson about the Book of Mormon, explained as research for his documentary on God rather than a sign he is joining the Church.

Standard of Truth · 69 min

Gerrit Dirkmaat and his co-host follow Ezra Booth from his 1831 disappointment in Jackson County, Missouri, to his public renunciation of the Church in letters printed in the Ohio Star.

The Stick of Joseph · 185 min

Amateur forensic researcher Curtis Weber walks through roughly three hours of slides arguing that the Larsson daguerreotype, a locket image surfaced by a Smith descendant in 2020, is an authentic photograph of Joseph Smith.

followHIM Podcast · 113 min

Hank Smith and John Bytheway host BYU-Idaho religion professor Ezra Gwilliam for a devotional walk through Isaiah 50–57, built on the pattern of Isaiah alternating between Christ's Atonement and the gathering of Israel.

Jesus Christ in Scripture · 13 min

Tammy Uzelac Hall and Donald W. Parry walk through Isaiah 53 as a prophecy of Jesus Christ, organized around four interwoven themes and a few Hebrew word studies (part one of their Isaiah 50–57 study for Come, Follow Me).

Unshaken · 32 min

A verse-by-verse walk through Isaiah 42 and 43, reading the servant song as a portrait of a Messiah who is gentle at his first coming and a roaring conqueror at his second.