And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.
Helaman 5:12
What this is
General conference talks are published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with audio recordings, free for anyone to read and listen to. This site does one small thing: it lets you gather those talks into a podcast feed of your own choosing — by conference, by speaker, by topic, or talk by talk in whatever order you like — so they arrive in the podcast app you already use.
That is the whole idea. Conference comes twice a year, and the six months in between are where the talks are meant to be studied. This is a way to keep them close during that time.
No audio is hosted here
Not one file. Every episode in every feed points at the Church's own servers, exactly where the recording already lives. When you press play, your podcast app fetches the audio from churchofjesuschrist.org — this site is never in the middle of it.
What is stored here is a list: which talks you chose, and in what order. The talks, the recordings, and the words belong to their authors and to Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
This is not an official site
A Talk to Remember is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in any way. Nothing here is an official publication, and any mistake on this site is mine rather than theirs. For the official source, go to churchofjesuschrist.org.
Who made it
This site is maintained by Kyre Lahtinen, a father, football fan, and teacher. It is offered as a service, free, with no advertising, no accounts, and collects no personally identifiable data.
A few practical things
- Feeds are permanent. Once you create one it is never edited or deleted, because podcast apps go on fetching it for years and there is no way to tell a subscriber it changed. If you want something different, make another feed.
- Filter feeds keep up. A feed built from conferences, speakers or topics gains new talks as new conferences are added. A hand-picked feed stays exactly as you made it.
- Not everything has audio. Recordings in Spanish begin around 2006 and in Portuguese around 2009, while English reaches back to 1971. Talks without audio cannot become episodes and are left out.