The Family Proclamation I Come Follow Church History with Lynne Hilton Wilson

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode of Come Follow Church History, host Lynne Hilton Wilson welcomes special guest BYU Professor Jenet Erickson for a deep and inspiring discussion on The Family: A Proclamation to the World. Together, they explore the historical roots, doctrinal foundations, and continuing relevance of this landmark declaration from the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Dr. Wilson and Professor Erickson unpack the Proclamation’s teachings on marriage, family roles, identity, and divine potential—values that stand as both a beacon and a counter-current in today’s rapidly shifting cultural landscape. With warmth, scholarship, and faith, they examine why these traditional principles remain central to Latter-day Saint belief, how they connect to broader themes in Church history, and why they continue to offer clarity and hope in a world of competing philosophies. Whether you're studying the Proclamation for the first time or seeking deeper understanding, this conversation will enrich your appreciation of the eternal truths at its heart. Join us for an uplifting, thoughtful, and timely exploration of one of the Church’s most influential modern documents. Visit us online: https://scripturecentral.org/archive/books

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0:00.0	We live at a time when we are suffering from an epidemic of loneliness, isolation.
0:07.0	There's a lack of sense of identity and meaning and purpose.
0:11.0	And much of it, I think, is the effect of us losing track of the importance of relationships in our lives.
0:19.0	We are so blessed to be able to talk about the proclamation of the family.
0:24.6	We are family, and the proclamation launches us by telling us all of you,
0:31.6	you beautiful sons and daughters, are literally the children of God.
0:36.6	We are here for connections and love, and love makes a difference.
0:42.1	Sex broken apart from marriage and man and woman, then what you see is an increase from
0:46.6	5 to 41% in the likelihood of a child being born out of wedlock.
0:50.9	This is why we desperately need a Redeemer and a Savior.
0:55.0	We live at a time when the marriage rate has dropped by 60%.
0:58.0	We know that the average age of first marriage for a man now is 31, 32, and for a woman, 2930.
1:04.0	Families are hard.
1:05.0	Relationships are hard.
1:07.0	But look what comes out.
1:10.0	We did not fight a war in heaven to be single eternally.
1:13.6	We fought for the whole plan to be bound in marriages, sealed in families.
1:19.6	That is such hard things to say for people who are infertile, for people who are single.
1:23.6	It's by design that it's a fallen world that we will have a gap between what we see
1:28.3	is sort of the ideal where we're headed and where we are. We as a church need to put our arms
1:35.3	around every person. And how could we ever express enough gratitude for the single people
1:42.3	in the world who minister to and nurture and nourish the souls of these children
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