Episode 37
Friday, November 6
36 min · 11 sources · Church News, Church Newsroom, Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones, Thoughtful Faith, RISE ZION, Christian Homestead, Scripture Central, Unshaken
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In this episode
Six senior couples called to lead Church historic sites starting February 2027
0:49Church News · 4 min
The First Presidency has called six senior couples to preside over Church historic sites in Utah, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, starting February 2027.
Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert ticket registration opens through November 15
3:45Church Newsroom · 3 min
The Newsroom's official release on Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert ticket registration, open November 2 to 15, and the season's broadcasts.
Edmonton Latter-day Saints' fall food drive collects about 394,000 pounds
5:15Church News · 4 min
The 17th annual Latter-day Saint food drive in and around Edmonton, Alberta, collected about 394,000 pounds of food this fall, and the article traces it back to one bishopric member's impression in 2009.
Fight the Good Fight gets a new tune, Path and Prize, in Hymns for Home and Church
7:28Church News · 5 min
The story behind "Fight the Good Fight," John Monsell's 1860 hymn, joining "Hymns for Home and Church" with a new tune by Hymnbook Committee member Stephen M. Jones.
Artist Joseph Brickey says his four-year forensic rebuild of Joseph Smith's head matches the Smith-Larson daguerreotype
9:25Let's Get Real with Stephen Jones · 81 min
Artist Joseph Brickey describes his four-year forensic reconstruction of Joseph Smith's skull and head, how it matched the Smith-Larson daguerreotype against his expectations, and what the work taught him about faith.
Thoughtful Faith: Why Latter-day Saints keep the cross for the temple
12:26Thoughtful Faith · 38 min
Jacob Hansen and Jonah Barnes argue that Latter-day Saints don't reject the cross but keep crucifixion symbolism for the temple, drawing on Church history, the Book of Mormon and early Christian apocrypha.
RISE ZION's Seth reads stake fast letter, ties fasting reports to Second Coming
15:41RISE ZION · 31 min
Seth reads a viewer-supplied letter from an unnamed stake calling a November 1 fast for the gathering, pairs it with a viewer's report of a nine-month fast in the Bangor, Maine stake, and argues the two show a rising fasting pattern tied to the Second Coming.
Christian Homestead: Is twenty twenty-six the 'last normal year'? AI and the Salt Lake Temple rededication
18:18Christian Homestead · 35 min
Jared gives two reasons he thinks 2026 is the last "normal" year before a new phase: fast-moving AI capability, and the Salt Lake Temple rededication read through Wilford Woodruff's 1893 prophecies.
Christian Homestead reads Philo Dibble's vision of a city on the Missouri prairie
22:13Christian Homestead · 29 min
Jared reads Philo Dibble's account of seeing a vast city on the Missouri prairie, then speculates that it pictures Adam-ondi-Ahman and the cities of the Millennium.
Lynne Hilton Wilson reads Ezekiel through its women, from the prophet's wife to the dry bones
24:39Scripture Central · 37 min
Lynne Hilton Wilson walks through Ezekiel by way of its women, real and symbolic, from Jerusalem personified as an unfaithful bride to the prophet's own wife, and closes on the dry bones and the two sticks.
Unshaken on Ezekiel 23 to 33: a widower's silence, a self-cleaning pot and the watchman
29:12Unshaken · 42 min
A chapter-by-chapter devotional walk through Ezekiel 23 to 33: the two unfaithful sisters, the boiling cauldron, the death of Ezekiel's wife, the oracles against Ammon, Tyre and Egypt, and the watchman recommissioned as the book turns toward restoration.
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