by Larry Richman | Oct 24, 2014
The text and PDF of the general conference issues of the Ensign, Liahona, New Era, and Friend magazines are now online and printed copies are in the mail to deliver to subscribers’ doors. The Ensign and Liahona magazines include a 2-page chart showing the...
by Larry Richman | Oct 9, 2014
For the last several years, I have shown wordles (word clouds) of the text from each general conference, which show the frequency of use of words (except words like it, the,and and). More frequently-used words are in larger type size. Below are two wordles showing an...
by Larry Richman | Oct 7, 2014
The English text for all the conference talks is now available at conference.lds.org and in the Gospel Library mobile app. On LDS.org, click on the title of the talk to read the text. Click on the video icons to the right of the titles to watch the videos of the...
by Larry Richman | Oct 6, 2014
Over the weekend, more than 2 million people from nearly every country in the world watched LDS General Conference in person or by satellite broadcast, television, radio, online, or with mobile apps. Here is a list of all the ways people could watch conference. Over a...
by Larry Richman | Oct 4, 2014
The Church plans to publish social media messages during LDS General Conference on the Church’s Facebook page (facebook.com/LDS) and Twitter account (@LDSchurch). We invite you to share these messages with your friends. Facebook Memes with quotes from the First...
by Larry Richman | Oct 3, 2014
The Church provides several General Conference activities for children at ConferenceGames.lds.org in multiple languages to help them enjoy and learn more from listening to general conference: A General Conference Notebook for children to write or draw about...
by Larry Richman | Oct 2, 2014
Social media users often categorize their posts by using hashtags, which are words prefixed with a hash (#) sign. These subject tags can be searched on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest, Flickr, and Tumblr to find information about a given...
by Larry Richman | Oct 1, 2014
The text and video from Saturday’s LDS General Women’s Meeting is now online as outlined below. Video of the meeting was posted at conference.lds.org and on the LDS General Conference YouTube channel immediately after the meeting. Videos and audio recordings of...
by Larry Richman | Oct 1, 2014
LDS General Conference may be one of the best ways to introduce your friends to the Church. This article provides references to help you explain to others what general conference is all about and to invite them to watch general conference. What is LDS General...
by Larry Richman | Sep 30, 2014
General Conference is this Saturday, October 4, and Sunday, October 5. Meetings are held both days from 10:00 am to noon and from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm MDT. A priesthood meeting is also held on Saturday from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The First Presidency invites the world to...
by Larry Richman | Sep 27, 2014
LDS Living has published an article “30 Things You Didn’t Know about the Conference Center.” That place is huge. Did you know that the entire Salt Lake Tabernacle could fit in the stage area of the Conference Center?
by Larry Richman | Sep 9, 2014
Leaders at LDS General Conference have always delivered their talks in English, even if it wasn’t their native language. The talks were then interpreted from English into 90+ languages so that Latter-day Saints and friends around the world could hear them in...
by Larry Richman | Jun 19, 2014
I was #inspiredby the general conference talk “Protection from Pornography-a Christ-Focused Home” by Sister Linda S. Reeves and her comments that “filters are useful tools, but the greatest filter in the world, the only one that will ultimately work,...
by Larry Richman | May 30, 2014
Utah Valley 360 has published a list of “10 of the most indispensable LDS talks ever given.” Although there are countless notable talks that are worth reviewing, they give the following list of 10 classic addresses from General Authorities and General...