The proclamation is kind of a liahona that can guide us through the wilderness of contemporary challenges.

The family proclamation is a perfect combination of revelation about gospel truths, teachings about our eternal destiny and about our

relationship with God and with each other. And it's also a beautiful standard holding up the

possibility that couples who focus on those principles that the proclamation mention and on

being devoted to Christ and devoted to truth,

the strengths that that can bring in a world that is increasingly difficult to make a marriage strong.

And so I am personally incredibly grateful for living prophets, seers and revelators,

who brought forth the proclamation 30 years ago,

and that I've observed very closely with my family, with my students, with others that we've interviewed and with the world in general, that people who will learn and abide

by those principles in the Family Proclamation give themselves a much better opportunity

to have strong marriages and families.

This is Mary Richards, reporter at the Church News. Welcome to the Church News podcast. Today, we are taking you on a journey of connection as we discuss news and events of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

30 years ago on September 23rd, 1995, President Gordon B. Hinkley, then the President and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,

stood at the pulpit in the Salt Lake Tabernacle and gave a proclamation

to the world on the sacred importance of the family. Over the next three decades, this powerful

document titled The Family, a Proclamation to the World, has guided members of the Church and

others in strengthening home and family by adhering to its prophetic principles in an increasingly

changing world.

On this episode of the Church News podcast, we continue our discussion of the family proclamation

and the family itself as we explore research findings by Brigham Young University's,

the American Families of Faith Project.

I am joined today by co-directors of the

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