Episode 21
Wednesday, October 14
20 min · 9 videos · RISE ZION, Church News, BYU-Idaho Speeches, Church Newsroom, Church History Matters Podcast, Unshaken, Scripture Central
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In this episode
President Christofferson tells members gambling is morally wrong
3:05RISE ZION · 28 min
Seth of Rise Zion walks back through President Christofferson's October 2026 conference talk against gambling, reads the press and online reaction to it, and spends a middle stretch on his joke about betting on the timing of the Second Coming.
Sally DeFord's song for a newborn grandson became a hymn in the new hymnbook
6:04Church News · 4 min
The story behind Sally DeFord's "Close as a Quiet Prayer," a children's song she wrote for a newborn grandson that is now in "Hymns for Home and Church."
Church News lists the changes from President Oaks's first year as prophet
7:50Church News · 5 min
A dated timeline of announcements and changes in the Church from President Oaks' setting apart on Oct. 14, 2025, through the release of "Dedicate" on Oct. 4, 2026.
Bednars return to BYU-Idaho for its twenty-fifth anniversary devotional
9:25BYU-Idaho Speeches · 52 min
A conversation-style devotional in which Elder and Sister Bednar recall turning Ricks College into BYU-Idaho 25 years ago and teach students about scripture study, discipleship, leadership and the house of the Lord.
Church News · 8 min
Church News covers the Oct. 8 BYU–Idaho devotional where Elder David A. and Sister Susan Bednar, who led Ricks College through its change to a university, talked with President Alvin F. Meredith III and students as part of the school's 25th anniversary.
Church Newsroom · 4 min
Elder and Sister Bednar returned to Rexburg for BYU-Idaho's 25th anniversary, joining a torch lighting and a devotional with President Alvin F. Meredith III.
Researchers argue the Larson locket photo shows Joseph Smith
11:16Church History Matters Podcast · 64 min
Hosts Scott Woodward and Casey Griffiths interview researcher Patrick Bishop and forensic artist Joseph Brickey about their film "Brother Joseph Again," which argues the Larson daguerreotype is an authentic photograph of Joseph Smith.
Come Follow Me, Isaiah 58 to 66: from groping for the wall to gates that never shut
14:01Unshaken · 39 min
A verse-by-verse devotional through Isaiah 59 and 60, from the people "groping for the wall like the blind" to the chiasmus "Arise, shine, for thy light is come" and the gathering to a city with open gates.
Scripture Central · 31 min
Lynne Hilton Wilson walks through Isaiah 58-66 for Come, Follow Me, tracing who belongs to God's covenant community from fasting and the Sabbath through the Messiah, Zion, the millennium and the new heavens and new earth.
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