Monday, October 12

Church News · 5 min

Church News' week-in-review roundup for Oct. 4-10: general conference, Elder Bednar's chaplain seminar and BYU-Idaho visit, and a handful of smaller Church stories, each with a one-paragraph summary.

Church News · 9 min

Church News lists one direct invitation from each of the 15 members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve who spoke at October 2026 general conference, each with a quote and talk title.

Church News · 10 min

Church News rounds up the social media posts Church leaders made in the week after October 2026 general conference, mostly clips and quotes from their own talks.

Church News · 11 min

Church News covers Elder Gerrit W. Gong's Oct. 11 dedication of the Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple, the Church's 224th dedicated temple, with his "three miracles" message and a long run of local member stories.

Church Newsroom · 5 min

The Newsroom's official release on Elder Gerrit W. Gong dedicating the Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple on Oct. 11, centered on his "three miracles of the holy temple."

Church News · 4 min

Church News reports the Oct. 10 groundbreaking for the Maceió Brazil Temple, presided over by Elder B. Corey Cuvelier, and lays out where all 24 of Brazil's temples stand.

Church News · 10 min

Church News reports Elder Ronald A. Rasband's Oct. 11 dedication of the Ephraim Utah Temple, the Church's 223rd, tying it to his own Danish pioneer ancestors and to the gathering of Israel.

Church Newsroom · 2 min

The Newsroom reports the Oct. 10 groundbreaking for the Iquitos Peru Temple in the Amazon, a city reachable only by air or river.

Church Newsroom · 2 min

The Newsroom's brief release on the Oct. 10 groundbreaking for the Maceió Brazil Temple, the first temple in the state of Alagoas.

Church News · 10 min

Ahead of Elder Gerrit W. Gong dedicating the Miraflores Guatemala City Guatemala Temple on Oct. 11, Church News gathers members' stories from the open house and the Church's growth in Guatemala.

Church News · 11 min

Church News recaps President Dallin H. Oaks' first year as Church President, from his Oct. 14, 2025, setting apart through temple dedications, two new apostles, record missionary numbers and policy changes.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · 23 min

Seven young adults tour the Salt Lake Temple construction site, watch YouTuber Zack Nelson demonstrate base isolation on an earthquake table, help repoint stone, and then talk with Elder Stevenson, Elder Caussé and President Johnson about Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone.

Informed Saints · 39 min

BYU historian Mark Christensen, a specialist in Nahuatl and Yucatec Maya, previews his Book of Mormon Culture Conference talk by taking apart popular Latter-day Saint Mesoamerica claims (Quetzalcoatl as Christ, Izapa Stela 5 as the "Lehi stone," Nephites equal Maya) while explaining why he still believes the book.

Christian Homestead · 35 min

Jared lays out his overall view of the Second Coming after five years of collecting quotes: he has no checklist timeline, thinks the final appearance could come any time, and reads many Revelation-style signs as already under way.

Christian Homestead · 45 min

Jared, who lives in Independence, answers a Stick of Joseph panel that argued Salt Lake City is the New Jerusalem, and uses prophetic quotes, temple-lot history and geography to argue the city will still be built in Jackson County, Missouri.

Unshaken · 26 min

A verse-by-verse devotional on Isaiah 58:13 to 59:8 that reframes the Sabbath as a delight you surrender to God rather than a list of restrictions, then turns to how small, entertained sins hatch into separation from Him.

Ulisses Soares · 7 min

Elder Ulisses Soares uses Isaiah 58 to explain that the Lord gave the law of the fast to lift burdens, not add them, and invites members to fast monthly and give generous fast offerings.

Unshaken · 28 min

A verse-by-verse devotional on Isaiah 58:1-12 contrasting Israel's performative fasting with the fast the Lord chose: self-mastery, real empathy for the poor, and an open line to heaven.

Church News · 11 min

Church News compiles quotes from Church leaders, past and present, on each chapter of Isaiah 58-66 to accompany this week's "Come, Follow Me" lesson.

Unshaken · 204 min

The final week of Unshaken's Isaiah study, a verse-by-verse walk through chapters 58 to 66: the true fast and the Sabbath, the Lord as the lone intercessor, "arise, shine," beauty for ashes, the Lord's return in red, and the closing new heavens and new earth.

The Scriptures Are Real · 55 min

Kerry Muhlestein closes the podcast's Isaiah study with Sister Reyna I. Aburto on Isaiah 61, the passage Jesus read in the Nazareth synagogue, and Robert Millet on the red-garmented Christ of Isaiah 63 and the millennial earth of Isaiah 65.

Unshaken · 18 min

A verse-by-verse devotional on Isaiah 57 that reads Judah's idolatry as covenant adultery and ends on God's promise to dwell with the contrite and calm the "troubled sea" of the wicked.