Episode 44
Saturday, November 14
40 min · 11 sources · Church News, Church Newsroom, The Stick of Joseph, The Interpreter Foundation, Christian Homestead, RISE ZION, LDS Teaching Toolbox, Unshaken
Show notes
In this episode
Elder Renlund turns 74; Church News gathers nine of his quotes from the past year
0:52Church News · 3 min
Church News marks Elder Dale G. Renlund's 74th birthday (born Nov. 13, 1952) with a short biography and nine quotes from his talks over the past year.
Church's 'Dedicate' Salt Lake Temple series passes two million views
3:28Church News · 5 min
A recap of "Dedicate," the Church's six-part video series following seven young adults from around the world through the Salt Lake Temple renovation, with premiere events held in Salt Lake City, Mexico City, West Africa and Manila.
Youth program: one invitation a month, from changing a tire to hearing the Spirit
5:57Church News · 4 min
The Young Men and Young Women general presidencies explain the monthly invitation in the youth program refinements announced Nov. 3: each youth picks one action to work on for the month.
Light the World turns ten; Giving Machine locations revealed Tuesday
8:00Church Newsroom · 2 min
The Church will launch its tenth Light the World initiative with a 30-minute global livestream on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 9 a.m. MST, announcing where this year's Giving Machines will be.
Stick of Joseph's Rappleyes score five Book of Mormon geography models on archaeology
9:38The Stick of Joseph · 141 min
In round two of their geography series, Neal and Jasmin Rappleye set aside the map and score five Book of Mormon models (Baja, Heartland, Costa Rica, South America, Mesoamerica) on anthropology: whether the archaeology of each region shows the state-level society the text describes during Book of Mormon times.
Interpreter paper proposes Nephi paired Nahom with 'repent' as wordplay in a chiasm
16:34The Interpreter Foundation · 34 min
Ryan Dahle presents his paper with Neal Rappleye, given at the Interpreter Foundation's small plates conference honoring President Holland, arguing that Nephi paired the place name Nahom with the word "repent" as wordplay framing a chiastic structure in 1 Nephi 16:34-39.
Christian Homestead host watches Microsoft outage live, urges spiritual and temporal readiness
20:58Christian Homestead · 17 min
Jared reads Downdetector graphs and Microsoft's status posts during a large Microsoft outage that also showed reports for Gmail, AWS, Cloudflare and others, then drifts into AI-driven layoffs.
Rise Zion's Seth on National Guard emergency planning during wartime and the Church's teachings on refuge
23:36RISE ZION · 14 min
Seth walks through a November 6 Army article on National Guard leaders asking civilian officials to plan for domestic emergencies during an overseas war, ties it to President Christofferson's temple dedicatory prayers about refuge from storms, and ends with a seven-item winter preparedness list.
Teaching Toolbox pairs Daniel 1 with a peer-pressure story and a ten-question faith quiz
27:07LDS Teaching Toolbox · 12 min
A short set of teaching helps for the Daniel 1–7 Come, Follow Me week: a discussion question, a New Era story about peer pressure, and a 10-question yes/no "faith quiz" on everyday commandment-keeping.
Unshaken on Daniel 4 and 5: Pride, Madness and the Writing on the Wall
30:25Unshaken · 32 min
A verse-by-verse devotional through Daniel 4 and 5, Nebuchadnezzar's tree dream and madness and Belshazzar's feast, framed around pride as a kind of insanity and Daniel's gift for "dissolving of doubts."
Unshaken on Daniel 6: open windows, a sealed den, and a type of the Resurrection
33:42Unshaken · 25 min
A verse-by-verse commentary on Daniel 6: rivals who can find no fault in Daniel make his prayer illegal, he prays anyway with the windows open, and the lions' den becomes a type of Christ's tomb and resurrection.
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