This weekend, October 3rd and 4th 2009, we are participating once again in the semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where we listen to discourses by modern Apostles and Prophets of Jesus Christ. Every Conference I try to post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available.
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I don’t know if this is a temporary error or a permanent shift in policy, but the audio mp3 and video mp4 files of the Priesthood Sessions of General Conference are now available on the conference archive pages of the official church website:
Last fall I broke the news that the church was considering allowing members to watch the Priesthood Session live this year by using the planned LDS Account login functionality. The LDS Account system was finalized and released earlier this year and rolled out to a number of church websites.
Making the audio and video available after the Conference Report Ensign magazine has been publish may represent a new policy for Priesthood session media.
We’ll see if the church makes an official statement.
(Hat tip to reader David S for the tip)
[Looking for the October 2009 Conference, go here]
This weekend, April 4th and 5th, 2009, is the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where the modern Apostles and Prophets of Jesus Christ will speak. Every Conference I post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available.
As the internet continues to transform the way we consume and even create entertainment, it is interesting to see how members of the LDS church are using the medium to create Mormon-specific entertainment distributed on the web.
As is usual with the web, not all of the content is worth promoting, or even consistently worth promoting.
In addition to blogging, we’ve seen the beginnings of a couple of LDS-oriented comic strips.
The 9th Ward is posted most Fridays by father-son team Rick and Ryan Goldsberry, who live in California, and features humorous vignettes related to Mormon culture.
Zarahemla Times is also posted Fridays by Kevin Beckstrom. It’s about a family living in the suburbs of Zarahemla in the time frame of about the end of Alma or Helaman in the Book of Mormon. Interesting in that it employs modern LDS terminology, such as the Relief Society, anarchronistically to an ancient setting.
So with blogging, podcasts, and now comics, we arrive at the next step in web-based LDS Entertainment: The Book of Jer3miah.
When people think of Mormons, one of the few things they often know is that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abstain from alcoholic drinks. I’ve known a few people who seem to think that you can’t have fun without a little help from the bottle, and for them the idea of an alcohol-free Mormon party sounds really boring. And depending on what they look for in a party, perhaps they are right. Bill Cosby has a few words for those in that camp.
After Thanksgiving, my uncle, cousin, brother-in-law, brother, and various other Wilson friends and family came over to my parents home for a spontaneous jam session. We had a blast laughing and dancing and suggesting new songs. So I wanted to share our Good Ol’ Clean Mormon Family Fun with the rest of you. Here they are with a spontaneous, improvised rendition of Sing Sing Sing (with a swing):
The LDS Church has a new official website, PreservingMarriage.org to support their efforts to preserve the traditional definition of marriage in California. Check it out. Also, LDS members everywhere can help support the effort by embedding church sponsored widgets and video from the site into their own blogs, websites, and facebook or myspace accounts. Check out the video below and embed it on your own website. You can get the embed code at the website.
This weekend is the semi-annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every Conference I post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available.
[Looking for the April 2009 Conference, go here]
[Looking for the October 2009 Conference, go here]
MP3 Audio
These are links to the earliest available audio I can find. I will post them as soon as the become available. They will be replaced by links to the official MP3s at the church website as they are posted.
Saturday Morning Session
Saturday Afternoon Session
Sunday Morning Session
Sunday Afternoon Session
Streaming Video
Live Video, streamed over the Internet, as well as archived recordings of completed sessions is available on demand through BYU and KSL. We have watched the conference through BYU.tv several years in a row now and love it. Read more »
I hope those of you who might be a little offended by the title of this video, will watch it anyway. Not only does it represent an amazing accomplishment, but I love the way it brings so many cultures and so many of God’s children together in a silly, but surprisingly touching display of cross-cultural connectedness.
I believe that dance is part of our human soul and represents a fundamental part of what it means to be human and a child of God.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.
Hat tip: North Temple
[Looking for October 2008 General Conference? Go here.]
[Looking for April 2009 General Conference, go here.]
[Looking for the October 2009 Conference, go here]
This weekend we are holding the annual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Every year I try to post links to MP3 audio and other Internet resources as they become available. This conference will include the sustaining of Thomas S. Monson as the President of the High Priesthood and Prophet.
MP3 Audio
These are links to the earliest available audio I can find. They will be replaced by links to the MP3s at the church website as they are posted.
Saturday Morning Session
Entire Session
Saturday Afternoon Session
Presented by Robert W. Cantwell
Presented by F. Michael Watson
Sunday Morning Session
Sunday Afternoon Session
Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander
Streaming Video
Live Video, streamed over the Internet, as well as archived recordings of completed sessions is available on demand through BYU and KSL. We have been watching conference through BYU.tv for several years now and love it. The video player only works on Windows or Mac OS X (Sorry Linux Users!). This year KSL appears to be using the same player as BYU.tv, so they may be actually the same source. Also, the church is officially providing a Video Podcast for the first time this year (see the podcast section below).
Transcripts, mp3 audio, and video of the World Wide Leadership Training Meeting originally held on February 9th, 2008 by the LDS Church on the topic of “Building Up a Righteous Posterity” are now available online at the official church website:
Building Up a Righteous Posterity
All adult members of the church were encouraged to attend. If you weren’t able to do so, find some time to watch it online, or download the mp3 audio to listen to at your leisure on your iPod or other portable mp3 player.
I came across this brilliant video on YouTube over the weekend.
Q: What if the Beatles covered the classic Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven”?
A: The Beatnix
While I am not particularly musical, I have always been fortunate to be in the company of wonderfully musical people. In addition to my own immediate family, growing up I was close friends with the second generation of The Osmond Brothers. The 5 Browns are my first cousins.
Also among my closest friends is the hyper-talented Lowe Family. This past September, we traveled to Branson Missouri where they have been performing for some years now. They treated us like royalty and we had a great time.
The Lowe Family has self-produced a music video for their original song “We Will Go On,” written by my friend Doug Lowe.
Earlier this year they performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the broadcast of ‘Music and the Spoken Word.”
My favorite is their arrangement with the choir of “Hurry Home” by Jon Anderson (vocalist of the progressive rock band “Yes”):
Go watch the higher quality version of the music video as well as selections from the video of their performance with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and highlights from their live show on their website at:
[Looking for October 2008 General Conference? Go here.]
[Looking for the October 2009 Conference, go here]
UPDATE: MP3s of most sessions, as wells as MP3s of each individual discourse in the sessions are now available from the official church website.
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Once again we are enjoying the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each conference, I try to post links to MP3 audio and other resources as quickly as they become available. Not everyone can listen to or watch the conference as it is broadcast, but internet technology has progressed to the point that anyone can participate and listen to the words of the living Prophet, Twelve Apostles, and other general authorities of the church regardless of their schedule.
MP3 Audio
The links below are to the earliest available MP3 Audio files. They are often available shortly after each session ends through the podcast. As MP3 files are made available on the official church website, the links will be changed to point there.
Saturday Morning Session
Saturday Morning Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Morning Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Afternoon Session
Saturday Afternoon Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Saturday Afternoon Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Morning Session
Sunday Morning Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Morning Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Afternoon Session
Sunday Afternoon Part 1 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Sunday Afternoon Part 2 – MP3 Audio File (24 Mb)
Video
Streaming Video at byu.tv (Spanish, Portuguese)
Streaming Video at KSL
Video is available both live as the conference is broadcast as well as on demand for past sessions, which are available immediately. So you can literally watch them at any time. This is the way we are watching conference this year. Our first time watching this way was last April, and we experienced some technical bugs, but this fall the experience has been, so far, bug-free.
Podcast
October 2007 LDS General Conference Podcast from KSL. Subscribe with iTunes, another podcatcher, or even Google Reader and listen at your leisure or on your iPod.
Enjoy!
As a little incentive to visit our puppetry troupe’s new website, here is the first of our puppet videos :
The Hardware Store. – A hardware store clerk meets a very persistent customer.
Enjoy.
