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Morning Watch
Morning Watch is a daily newscast about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each episode reports on recent videos and articles from official Church channels and independent commentators, naming the source behind every story. It closes with Come, Follow Me for the current week. The five voices are AI personalities created by Gregory Sargent. Not an official publication of the Church.
Episodes
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Ep. 42: Thursday, November 12, 2026
In this episode: • Elder Soares joins Pope Leo XIV at interfaith gathering in Buenos Aires • Church Music Festival in the Tabernacle draws heavily on the new…
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Ep. 41: Wednesday, November 11, 2026
In this episode: • Wilford Woodruff Papers project gives its finished collection to the Church History Department • BYU-Idaho students bring Temple Square's…
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Ep. 40: Tuesday, November 10, 2026
In this episode: • President Oaks tells struggling members he loves them and prays for them • Church News editor on 2026's temple pace: go more often • BYU…
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Ep. 39: Monday, November 9, 2026
In this episode: • Women's Conference talk: Eve, Joan of Arc and a handcart orphan on divine identity • Church creates nationwide ASL Sunday School presidency…
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Ep. 38: Saturday, November 7, 2026
In this episode: • Elder Cook to young adults: be a light, and drop the mask of anonymity • Bishop Chris Williams on forgiving the drunk driver who killed his…
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Ep. 37: Friday, November 6, 2026
In this episode: • Six senior couples called to lead Church historic sites starting February 2027 • Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert ticket registration…
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Ep. 36: Thursday, November 5, 2026
In this episode: • Children and Youth program to be reorganized around Believe, Belong, Become in January • Elder Stevenson's sheep dog story and the call to…
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Ep. 35: Wednesday, November 4, 2026
In this episode: • Children and Youth program refinements: new recognition, monthly goals, Believe Belong Become, starting January 2027 • Elder Caussé in Kenya…
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Ep. 34: Tuesday, November 3, 2026
In this episode: • Four temples in two days: Mexico, Kansas, Texas, American Samoa • Elder Kearon asks Ensign College students to write their own plan for…
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Ep. 33: Monday, November 2, 2026
In this episode: • Elder Andersen ties Mexico's Day of the Dead to temple work in video from Oaxaca cemetery • Elder Rasband at BYU: 'Hurrah for Israel!' and…
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Ep. 32: Saturday, October 31, 2026
In this episode: • Governments urge emergency kits as Latter-day Saint wards practice their plans Show notes and transcript…
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Ep. 31: Friday, October 30, 2026
In this episode: • Latter-day Saint rookie Cooper Pratt helps Brewers win first World Series • Handbook now lets Primary children plan and run their own…
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Ep. 30: Thursday, October 29, 2026
In this episode: • BYU-Idaho's Chris Allison: Pray real questions if you want real answers • President and Sister Oaks talk family and faith at his family's…
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Ep. 29: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
In this episode: • Church Music Festival to debut twelve new hymns live in the Tabernacle, November seventh • Cody Wyoming Temple dedicated today on land a…
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Ep. 28: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
In this episode: • Fairview Texas Temple walls rise as town leaders push for a shorter steeple • BYU-Idaho devotional: Dan Barnes on worth, identity and the…
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Ep. 27: Monday, October 26, 2026
In this episode: • October handbook update: new Young Women age-group names, Sunday schedule guidance, sealings and disability support • Dedicate Episode 4…
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Ep. 26: Thursday, October 22, 2026
In today's show, every missionary in the Church got a smartphone in January twenty twenty, just weeks before COVID closed borders around the world. The Joseph…
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Ep. 25: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
In today's show, a member of the Presiding Bishopric tells BYU students where tithing goes, including one point five eight billion dollars spent caring for…
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Ep. 24: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
In today's show, Elder Gerrit W. Gong wants artificial intelligence to sit for a new exam, one that grades its moral compass. Kyrgyzstan's president greets an…
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Ep. 23: Monday, October 19, 2026
In today's show, we start with this day in history: on October nineteenth, nineteen seventy-one, the Genesis Group held its founding meeting in Salt Lake City…
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Ep. 22: Friday, October 16, 2026
In today's show, we start in October eighteen forty-two, when Joseph Smith was in hiding and the Nauvoo newspaper had to speak for him. The twenty twenty-seven…
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Ep. 21: Wednesday, October 14, 2026
In today's show, we start with our own look back: twenty-eight years ago today, the First Presidency announced a temple in Baton Rouge, the first in Louisiana…
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Ep. 20: Monday, October 12, 2026
In today's show, we start with our own look back: sixty-three years ago today, the Polynesian Cultural Center was dedicated in Laie Hawaii, and it opened next…
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Ep. 19: Friday, October 9, 2026
In today's show, we start with our own feature from a hundred and fifty-one years ago today, when the Salt Lake Tabernacle was dedicated under a roof that…
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Ep. 18: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
In today's show, we start with our history feature, from one hundred seventy years ago today. Sixteen supply wagons gathered at Big Mountain to go after the…
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Ep. 17: Monday, October 5, 2026
In today's show, we start one hundred seventy years ago today, when Brigham Young stood up at general conference in Salt Lake City and asked for teams, wagons…
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Ep. 16: Friday, October 2, 2026
In today's show, we start with the vision of the redemption of the dead, which came to President Joseph F. Smith one hundred and eight years ago tomorrow, in a…
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Ep. 15: Thursday, October 1, 2026
In today's show, we start thirty-eight years ago today, when President Ezra Taft Benson opened general conference by calling the Book of Mormon the instrument…
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Ep. 14: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
In today's show, we start forty-eight years ago today, when Latter-day Saints meeting in general conference voted to accept the revelation on the priesthood. A…
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Ep. 13: Monday, September 28, 2026
In today's show, we start in Council Bluffs Iowa, where Saints who couldn't reach the Rocky Mountains before winter settled a place first called Miller's…
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Ep. 12: Sunday, September 27, 2026
In today's show, we start with our own feature, which goes back to the Church's second conference, when the elders gathered in Fayette New York with a serious…
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Ep. 11: Friday, September 25, 2026
The show opens on the Manifesto and the end of plural marriage. The Church releases its 2027 calendar of churchwide broadcasts, and Elder Cook will address…
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Ep. 10: Thursday, September 24, 2026
The show opens on the Manifesto, Wilford Woodruff's declaration of September 24, 1890. Elder Gilbert tells Hispanic youth in Chicago they are central to the…
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Ep. 9: Wednesday, September 23, 2026
The show opens on the family proclamation, first read by President Hinckley on September 23, 1995. Elder Andersen tells BYU students to settle it in their…
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Ep. 8: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Christian Homestead covers the Davis County mountain tornado, and Church History Matters tells the story of Porter Rockwell. The Stick of Joseph looks at…
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Ep. 7: Monday, September 21, 2026
Ground is broken for the Tulsa Oklahoma Temple. Christian Homestead argues across three videos that the last days are speeding up, and Scripture Central begins…
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Ep. 6: Thursday, September 17, 2026
Ground is broken for temples in Victoria, British Columbia and Colorado Springs, and President Oaks speaks at the Washington National Cathedral. Christian…
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Ep. 5: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
The first couple sealed in the San Diego temple look back thirty years, and RISE ZION reports on Elder Bednar's counsel about the sacrament changes. Two…
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Ep. 4: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Church History Matters revisits the shooting of Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs, and Jasmin Rappleye talks about the new hymnbook. RISE ZION looks back on…
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Ep. 3: Monday, September 14, 2026
Elder Bednar teaches on seeing good, hearing truth and speaking light, and Elder Gilbert talks about building leaders in the Africa West Area. Christian…
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Ep. 2: Saturday, September 12, 2026
Christian Homestead traces four versions of the quote "If you knew what I knew," and two channels handle the same Elder Pearson devotional clip in very…
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Ep. 1: Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Church News talks with BYU's Jason Carroll about finding hope while dating, and Church History Matters looks at Moroni Day, a new Latter-day Saint holiday…