The ever-expanding BYU Speeches collection with curator Charles Cranney

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Every week devotional speakers enlighten, instruct and uplift students at Brigham Young University. But these BYU Speeches are not only for the student body, they are recorded, curated and digitally shared for the world at large. With over seven decades of devotionals from Church leaders, BYU presidents, professors, scholars and invited guests, there are thousands of speeches. And now, with the archive expanding to include Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and French translations, the speeches team is ready to share the talks with even more listeners. This episode of the Church News podcast features Charles Cranney, senior manager of Digital Media at BYU Brand & Creative, as well as excerpts from past BYU devotionals. The episode explores the history and highlights speeches from BYU’s ever-expanding collection.

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 executive 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	Nearly every day we get an email from somebody that said this is the talk that just really was heaven sent for me today.
0:18.7	That's a common phrase we hear, heaven sent.
0:21.8	Think about it.
0:22.9	If someone at BYU is asked to give a devotional on campus,
0:26.8	most of those invited know it will be the only time they will ever be asked.
0:31.3	So many of these talks have been prepared as if it will be the only such talk they will ever give,
0:35.9	kind of like the last lecture series that
0:38.1	other universities have, and what an honor and great privilege it has been to be bathed in
0:46.3	the gospel light through these BYU speeches.
0:53.8	This is Sarah Jane Weaver, executive editor of the Church News, welcoming you to the church news podcast.
1:00.6	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.
1:12.4	Every week, accomplished speakers enlighten, instruct, and uplift students at Brigham Young
1:17.4	University, but these BYUu speeches are not only for the student body. They are recorded,
1:23.0	curated, and digitally shared for the world at large through the Speeches.bYU.edu website.
1:29.5	With over seven decades of devotionals from church leaders,
1:32.8	BYU presidents, professors, scholars, and invited guests,
1:36.7	there are thousands of speeches,
1:38.6	and now with the archive expanding into translations in Spanish,
1:42.1	Japanese, Portuguese, and French,
1:45.4	the speeches team is ready to enlighten even more listeners. This episode of the Church News podcast features Charles Cranny,
1:51.6	senior manager of digital media at BYU brand and creative. He joins us to explore the history
1:57.2	and highlight speeches from this ever-expanding collection.
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