Wednesday, October 21

BYU Speeches · 32 min

Bishop L. Todd Budge, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric, explains in an October 20, 2026 BYU devotional how Church finances are overseen and walks through, with current numbers, how tithes and offerings fund the Church's four divinely appointed responsibilities.

Church News · 6 min

An overview of senior missionary service: a century of prophetic calls for more couples, the policy changes meant to make serving easier, and the range of assignments open today.

Church News · 4 min

A report on Elder Dale G. Renlund's Oct. 13 Neal A. Maxwell Lecture at BYU, on what it means that Christ's Atonement is "infinite."

Church News · 7 min

A history of missionary training from the Kirtland School of the Prophets to today's Provo MTC, with a dated timeline and a list of all 11 MTCs worldwide.

Church News · 5 min

How the at-home missionary training started in the March 2020 pandemic shutdown became permanent, told mostly through missionaries' accounts from 2020 and 2021.

The Interpreter Foundation · 35 min

An Egyptologist argues that the Book of Mormon's "keep my commandments and ye shall prosper in the land" promise has Egyptian wisdom-literature roots alongside its well-known Old Testament ones.

The Interpreter Foundation · 31 min

A stylometry (wordprint) study of Nephi's own words in 1 and 2 Nephi, arguing that his writing signature changes over time in a way consistent with one man writing across about 40 years.

The Interpreter Foundation · 38 min

A seminary teacher's conference paper reading Nephi's tool-making, revealed ship design and ocean crossing as a ritual sequence of ancient "cosmic kingship," in which a king moves from chaos to order and earns the right to rule.

The Stick of Joseph · 86 min

Neuroradiologist and former seminary teacher Jeff Markham returns to make the case that the Book of Mormon's complexity (internal consistency, Hebrew poetic forms, intertextual links and name wordplay) points to an ancient record, then spends the back half tracing shared temple and covenant symbols across three stories involving different Nephis.

Christian Homestead · 33 min

A grab-bag update from Independence: finished Community of Christ temple artwork, a Second Coming line in the Ephraim Utah Temple dedicatory prayer, and a recap of this year's tornadoes near Church sites leading up to a reported tornado near Liberty Jail on Oct 13.

Thoughtful Faith · 13 min

Prompted by Angel Studios' series "Miracle," hosted by Bear Grylls, the host takes on why God heals one faithful person and not another, and answers that faith rests in Christ, not in getting the outcome.

Unshaken · 42 min

A verse-by-verse devotional on Jeremiah 2 and 3 that reads Judah's idolatry through the marriage metaphor: idolatry as adultery, with the Lord as a faithful husband who refuses to sign the divorce papers.