Episode 26
Thursday, October 22
19 min · 7 videos · Church News, Church Newsroom, The Interpreter Foundation, Christian Homestead, Unshaken
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In this episode
Church News traces fifteen years of missionary work moving from paper to smartphones
0:55Church News · 6 min
A Church News overview (first published in a Deseret News magazine) of how missionary work moved from paper area books to smartphones, social media and video chats over about 15 years.
Joseph Smith Papers releases ebook for its completed Financial Records series
2:52Church Newsroom · 3 min
The Church Historian's Press released an ebook introducing the completed Joseph Smith Papers Financial Records series.
El Paso Texas Temple site announced, 42 years to the day after Dallas
5:03Church Newsroom · 1 min
The official Church Newsroom release giving the site and size of the El Paso Texas Temple.
Church News · 2 min
The First Presidency has announced the site for the El Paso Texas Temple, 42 years to the day after the Dallas Texas Temple was dedicated.
Sociologist Jess Paul Jones reads Nephi's record as a study in identity
6:33The Interpreter Foundation · 40 min
A sociologist who studies young adult Latter-day Saint religious identity reads 1 and 2 Nephi as a case study in identity development, and draws out what parents and teachers can use from it.
Christian Homestead counts Second Coming warnings in eighty years of conference talks
9:28Christian Homestead · 32 min
Jared revisits Elder Anderson's BYU-Idaho remarks about repeated apostolic emphasis on the parable of the ten virgins, then presents new spreadsheets that tally how often words tied to calamities, warnings and the Second Coming appear in general conference talks from 1942 to 2026.
Unshaken on Jeremiah's Temple Sermon: membership doesn't offset broken covenants
14:29Unshaken · 44 min
A verse-by-verse devotional through Jeremiah 4 to 7, building to Jeremiah's Temple Sermon and its warning that coming to the temple doesn't excuse a life that breaks the covenants it stands for.
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