Thursday, October 29

BYU-Idaho Speeches · 25 min

BYU-Idaho religion teacher and stake patriarch Chris Allison lays out the "fundamentals" of personal revelation, starting with the practical point that prayers need actual questions in them.

Church News Podcast · 22 min

Church News editor Jon Ryan Jensen interviews President Dallin H. Oaks and Sister Kristen M. Oaks at his extended family's biennial reunion about family, his own and God's.

Scripture Central · 31 min

Elder Lawrence E. Corbridge argues that the purpose of life can be summed up in one word, "life," then closes with a pointed correction: we are saved and strengthened by Christ himself, not by "the Atonement" as if it were a separate force.

Jasmin Rappleye

In this video interview, Atlantic staff writer and Latter-day Saint McKay Coppins describes a year of NFL sports betting, done with his bishop's cautious blessing and $10,000 from The Atlantic, that grew into a compulsive habit and became the subject of his magazine cover story on the sports-betting industry.

Christian Homestead · 38 min

Jared reads news clippings about the Church's water donations to the Great Salt Lake next to articles on fresh water appearing near Israel's Dead Sea, and wonders whether the Ezekiel 47 "healed waters" prophecy could have a Utah fulfillment.

Christian Homestead · 33 min

Jared walks through his spreadsheet of the number seven turning up in what Church presidents say and post, centered on a viewer's claim, checked with an AI tool called Muse, that President Nelson died exactly 7 years, 7 months, 7 weeks and 7 days after President Monson.