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Research shows faith and religious engagement are society‘s greatest strengths in solving social division, loneliness, and virtue decline. Paul W. Lambert, religion initiative director at the Wheatley Institute, delivered this forum address on July 29, 2025. You can access the talk here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The Lord wants our hearts; He wants us to become “new creatures in Christ.” As we present our offerings with heartfelt love for Him, they sanctify us and draw us closer to Him. L. Todd Budge, first counselor in the presiding bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered this devotional address on. October 20, 2026. You can access the full talk here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We may not always know how to navigate the refiner’s fire, but as we endure it with presence, God grants us opportunities to learn and grow. Rebekka Matheson, associate director of the BYU Neuroscience Center, delivered this devotional address on October 13, 2026. You can access the full talk here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Even at the heights of scientific materialism, there has always been a strong argument contained within the work of science and what science has revealed for believing that the universe is not accidental—that the universe was fashioned, was made, was intended to exist. Ross G. Douthat, a columnist and author, delivered this forum address on September 29, 2026. You can access the full talk here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Why choose Christ? Because He is real! He is the most real thing in this world. He is “in all and through all things”—the “light and life” of the whole world, and of your individual world and mine. Alexander Dushku, a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered this devotional address on September 22, 2026. You can access the full talk here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
With so many choices and alluring paths before you, it will require strength of heart and mind to boldly, without distraction or deception, “settle this in your heart” and walk the road less traveled toward the Savior. Neil L. Andersen, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered this devotional address on September 15, 2026. You can access the full talk here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.