In Auschwitz, twenty-five Jewish slaves used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust. The Upper Tailoring Studio, run by the commandant's wife, Hedwig Höss, and a prisoner, Marta Fuchs, was created to design, cut, and sew popular fashions for the Nazi elite. But it was also the means of saving Jewish women from the gas chambers.
Before we see the miracles and answers to our prayers, the Lord often requires is to “get our feet wet” with a little leap of faith.
Do you love flight delays? Yeah, me neither. But today I’m talking about how a six-hour flight delay ended up being a great spiritual blessing.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we value the marriage relationship and feel that it is the most important relationship we have here on earth. We have revealed doctrine on the eternal nature of marriages and how the sealing ordinance of marriage is a necessary part of our eternal progression. Being that marriage is ordained by God it’s safe to say that He feels strongly about it and probably has a lot of thoughts on what makes a good marriage and what we need to be doing in our marriages to make them a success. Marriage coach Jane Copier believes that we can get so much more out of our marriages by knowing what our Heavenly Father wants for us in this relationship and we need to be making the effort of bringing God’s thoughts into our thoughts and into our marriages.
"I study [church] history because I have to know the past that went into my present and will go into my future." Listen as Carmen and author/church historian Steven Harper discuss how to educate the biases that might develop in studying the historical aspects of our faith and why it's important to develop the "need to know".
As the years pass and we get older, the relationships we have with our families grow and change. Sometimes this can bring us closer together, sometimes this can drive us apart. So what can we do to navigate the nuance and complexity of staying close to our siblings in spite of what life throws at us? Lisa talks with her longtime friend and celebrated actor and performer Kirby Heyborne about his lived experiences.
The Baal Shem Tov was a Jewish rabbi from Poland in the 1700s. In this story, Gerald Fierst tells of when he faced a werewolf tainted with an evil heart.
In this episode we'll discuss the Book of Joshua, which is the first of the historical books of the Old Testament. These books tell the faith-promoting stories that help us develop faith and move forward. We'll talk about the idea of personal purpose and how the greater we understand this the more progress we tend to make. We'll also discuss how following the Lord's direction can help us overcome obstacles, including significant obstacles, even when such direction may not make much sense to us.
