The Well of the World’s End

If you look out at the horizon, you will see a line that looks like you could step right off the edge of the earth. Myths and legends have long explored the idea that the world is not a sphere, but instead, if you travel far enough, you’ll find an ending. What might be at that ending place? A cliff that falls into nothing, a shining castle, a gateway to another world? Or perhaps something as simple as a wishing well and a small frog.

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Doctrine & Covenants 84: Part 1

Do you wonder how both women and men hold priesthood authority and priesthood power? Dr. Barbara Morgan Gardner returns to teach about how women and men have priesthood authority, responsibility, and duties. We learn how the early Saints were being prepared for temple covenants and learn the difference between how the priesthood operates within and without the family structure.

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Black Mamba

Welcome to The Apple Seed! Some time filled with stories for you and your family. Since 2013 we’ve been bringing you tall tales, personal tales, fairy tales, historical tales and more. All kinds of tales, from all kinds of tellers. Staring off today we’ve got Charlotte Blake-Alston’s “Black Mamba” about a village whose leader is dying and needs the saving medicine that can only be gathered from a ferocious snake.

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Rabbit and the Alligators

Welcome to The Apple Seed! Some time filled with stories for you and your family. Since 2013 we’ve been bringing you tall tales, personal tales, fairy tales, historical tales and more. All kinds of tales, from all kinds of tellers. One of the most prevalent traditions in storytelling around the world is that of tricksters.

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Your Unique Grief Experience

While grief and loss are a natural part of life, it is a process that we often don’t know how to navigate. When hit with grief, our emotions are deep and complex and layered on top of each other. We can often feel like our entire world has been turned upside down and that we will never experience happiness and joy again. Learning how to make our way through the grief process so that we can be stronger and truly live a life of joy and happiness once again can be difficult, but it is most definitely possible. Come listen to Stephanie Pickle as she relates her own journey through grief and loss and what she has learned from those experiences that now help her as she coaches her clients.

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