What Church News editor Sarah Jane Weaver knows now after 100 episodes of the Church News Podcast
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Church News
4.8 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On Oct. 20, 2020, the Church News launched a new podcast with a goal to connect members and leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Almost two years later, the Church News uploaded its 100th episode. Thanks to a faithful and growing audience, producers now look forward to the next 100 episodes. In celebration of this landmark, this episode of the podcast offers a few “best of” moments from past podcasts, as well as reflections on “what we all know now,” after listening to and learning from the many podcast guests.
Episodes featured in this podcast:
- Episode 1: Sarah Jane Weaver interviews President Ballard about his 35 years as an Apostle
- Episode 7: Elder Jeffrey R. Holland joins Sarah Jane Weaver to talk about the pandemic, his testimony
- Episode 12: Sister Wendy Nelson joins Sister Sheri Dew to talk about President Nelson’s 3 years as Prophet
- Episode 24: Elder Bednar shares his pattern for studying general conference messages
- Episode 26: Elder Cook on how revelation prepared the Church for COVID-19, will be significant going forward
- Episode 28: Elder Uchtdorf discusses how to incorporate pandemic lessons, move ‘back to the future’ of missionary work
- Episode 34: Church historian Richard Turley and filmmaker Mauli Junior Bonner on the importance of early Black pioneers
- Episode 37: Sister Aburto on mental, emotional health and the power of turning to the Savior for comfort
- Episode 40: President M. Russell Ballard and 3 other Apostles on why and how the Church is governed by councils
- Episode 41: Latter-day Saint women leaders on the voice of women in the Church through executive councils, revelation
- Episode 50: Elder Brook P. Hales, secretary to the First Presidency, gives an inside look into the preparations for general conference
- Episode 56: President Ballard, Elder Holland and Elder Cook reflect on how they first came to know the Savior
- Episode 57: BYU–Idaho professors Eric and Sarah d’Evegnée on faith, testimony and reconversion
- Episode 63: Deseret News Executive Editor Doug Wilks on how connection helped overcome contempt in 2021
- Episode 69: Elder Christofferson and President and Sister Top emphasize drawing courage from history to face modern challenges
- Episode 70: The expansiveness of the Salt Lake Temple renovation project, with Brent Roberts and Andy Kirby
- Episode 74: Relief Society President Jean B. Bingham on the 180th anniversary of the worldwide women’s organization
- Episode 76: President M. Russell Ballard shares memories of general conference, emphasizes the need to anchor faith in Christ
- Episode 82: How a unique ‘Reverse Open House’ is helping build interfaith relationships in the Washington, D.C., area
- Episode 93: New Primary General President Susan H. Porter on how teaching and serving children can be life-changing
- Episode 94: New Relief Society President Camille N. Johnson on how understanding divine nature and purpose leads to lasting happiness
- Episode 96: Approaching his 90th birthday, President Dallin H. Oaks reflects on the lessons learned in nine decades
- Episode 100: Elder Ronald A. Rasband and Elder S. Mark Palmer on the growing and influential Church in Africa, with guest host Sheri Dew
The Church News Podcast is a weekly podcast that invites listeners to make a journey of connection with members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints across the globe. Host Sarah Jane Weaver, reporter and editor for The Church News for a quarter-century, shares a unique view of the stories, events, and most important people who form this international faith. With each episode, listeners are asked to embark on a journey to learn from one another and ponder, “What do I know now?” because of the experience. Produced by KellieAnn Halvorsen.
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| 0:00.0 | If I were to think of what I know now, after being involved with the church news podcast for 100 episodes, life is better with God. |
| 0:16.9 | All focused on the anchor that everyone needs in their lives, regardless of what's happening, |
| 0:23.6 | and that anchor is to stay close to the Lord, Jesus Christ. |
| 0:28.6 | And they will feel for themselves as I did throughout my life that this is true, |
| 0:34.6 | and that Jesus Christ's realness gave this sacrifice for me so I can, when this |
| 0:41.3 | life ends, return to his presence. It's that diversity and life experience that's going to help |
| 0:47.2 | us get home, right? I mean, we've got to draw upon one another's strengths, and sometimes |
| 0:53.4 | strengths are born of weakness. The weaknesses that |
| 0:56.0 | we've overcome become our strengths, and then we can help others. It's all about an invitation. |
| 1:01.0 | It's an invitation to follow the Savior. It's an invitation to heal. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Sarah Jane Weaver, editor of the Church News, welcome to the Church News podcast. |
| 1:14.6 | 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. |
| 1:20.6 | On October 20, 2020, the Church News launched a new podcast with a goal to connect members and leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. |
| 1:33.5 | Almost two years later, we uploaded our 100th episode. |
| 1:38.3 | Thanks to a faithful and growing audience, we now look forward to producing the next 100 episodes of the Church News podcast. |
| 1:45.9 | In celebration of the first 100, however, today we look back and offer some highlights |
| 1:51.1 | and reflect on what we all know now because of our many podcast guests, their stories, and |
| 1:57.0 | their testimonies. In our first episode, the Church News podcast featured President M. Russell Ballard, |
| 2:03.5 | acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, |
| 2:06.5 | speaking about a focus on the Savior Jesus Christ. |
| 2:10.0 | He set the tone for every episode of the Church News podcast that would follow his. |
| 2:15.2 | Well, it's the same message, think that I have tried to emphasize in my whole ministry, |
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