BYU Devotionals & Speeches

Every Tuesday, at 11:05 AM BYU hosts a devotional. The speakers come from either the faculty, or General Authorities of the Church. The tradition of the BYU devotional dates back until the days of Adam – when he gathered his posterity together every Tuesday morning at 11:05 AM to discuss basic doctrine with them.

So what? Well – BYU has been recording these devotionals for a long time. If you are interested in getting access to some of the classic LDS speeches, such as Bruce R. McConkie’s “The Seven Deadly Heresies“, or Truman G. Madsen’s “Souls Aflame” (one of my personal favorites), or Hugh B. Brown’s classic speeches “Profile of a Prophet” or “God is the Gardener” [note that it is "Gardener" not "Gardner"] you can get them all in one place. For free.

BYU doesn’t do a good job of advertising this (so I’m doing it for them right now). Apparently some other people have noticed it, because recently they have added a copyright notice to make it clear that you can’t download all these devotionals and then sell them. (Gee. I wonder what kind of sites that might be aimed at)

The BYU’s Speeches Website has over 804 talks available in MP3 format to download, and about 200 more that you can read in HTML format (but can’t download in MP3 for some reason).

LDS.org Audio section

General authorities speaking to college kids doesn’t cut it for you? What would? Perhaps the entire book Jesus the Christ, by James Talmage would make you happy. More into contemporary church topics? Perhaps the audio copy of this month’s Ensign (conveniently broken into tracks) might be the perfect thing to listen to on your morning commute. (Or if you are really intrested – they have audio versions of ever Ensign, New Era, and Friend dating back to January 2004.)

If you want to get the audio copies of the latest conference talks – they have those too. Oh, and in case you were planning on checking out all 40+ CD’s of the Old Testament from the BYU Library and slowly ripping them (3 at a time is all they let you check out… it takes a while… don’t ask me how I know) – they have the entire Old Testament and every other standard work available for download.

To get there, either click here, or go to the website of the true church and click on “Gospel Library” and then click on “Audio” in the submenu. (DON’T click on “Audio Scriptures” on the side under the “Broadcast” menu – that takes you somewhere else that has streaming audio.)

BYU Broadcasting “Find a Talk”

BYU Broadcasting isn’t goign to sit back and be left in the dust. They also have a website called where you can “Find a talk.” That is – you can find a talk that they felt like putting online. Their collection is rather strange. They pull out some random BYU devotionals ( not nearly as many as the BYU speeches page) – and some other content from sources such as the Sperry Symposium, Women’s Conference, and BYU Education-week.