America’s Best Idea – Sunday, August 23, 2020
In 1872, United States President Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill designating Yellowstone as America’s first national park. In fact, it was the first national...
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Toward a More Civil Society – Sunday, August 16, 2020
In the spring of 1945, with the world still staggering from the most devastating war in human history, leaders from 50 nations gathered in San...
That Which Is Timeless – Sunday, August 9, 2020
The first-time famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma ever performed as a young boy, he played a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the 60 years since...
Light the Whole Sky – Sunday, August 2, 2020
It takes only a glance at the news to know about disasters and tragedies all around the world. And it takes only a glance into...
But They Carried On – Sunday, July 26, 2020
In 1846, thousands of people in the midwestern United States were persecuted for their beliefs and forced from their homes in the dead of winter....
This Day and Always – Sunday July 19, 2020
When The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square first began singing, not long after the wagon wheels came to a stop in the valley of the...
“The Dawning of a Brighter Day” – Sunday, July 12, 2020
We opened today’s broadcast the same way we opened The Tabernacle Choir’s first-ever broadcast 90 years ago: with a stirring hymn titled “The Morning Breaks,...
The Great Highway – Sunday, July 5, 2020
On the 10th day of May 1869, at a remote promontory north of the Great Salt Lake, Central Pacific Railroad official Leland Stanford struck a...
“But One Life to Lose for My Country” – Sunday June 28, 2020
Nathan Hale was a schoolteacher, fresh out of college, teaching in a one-room school in New London, Connecticut, when the American Colonies went to war...