Music & the Spoken Word Library

Toward a More Civil Society – Sunday, August 25, 2019

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...

What a Wonderful World! – Sunday, August 18, 2019

Recently, a group of university students were discussing their spiritual beliefs. They talked about what they believed in, what they felt the purpose of life...

Light the Whole Sky – Sunday, August 11, 2019

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...

The Most Beautiful Music of All – Sunday, August 4, 2019

We live in a world that seems obsessed with power—political power, military power, earning power. Popular movies even imagine superhuman powers. Few of us, if...

The Course of Life – Sunday, July 28, 2019

Some people face so many obstacles and seem to struggle and barely get by as they journey through life. On the other hand, others seem...

But They Carried On – Sunday, July 21, 2019

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....

The Dawning of a Brighter Day – Sunday, July 14, 2019

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,...

In Harmony with Others – Sunday, July 7, 2019

There are many things in life that can be done alone. You can play a piano alone—or a violin or guitar or any other musical...

But One Life to Lose for My Country – Sunday, June 30, 2019

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...