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Sarah Jane Weaver

Sarah Jane Weaver is the editor of the Church News. Since 1995 she has covered, among other things, the Church’s welfare services, Church Education and social issues impacting Latter-day Saints. Her favorite assignments include reporting on temple dedications and writing about members around the world. Sarah graduated from BYU with a degree in journalism and history and served as editor in chief of the BYU student newspaper, the Daily Universe. Before joining the Deseret News staff, she completed a Pulliam Fellowship at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Ariz.

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Leaders & Ministry
Video: 2 Apostles reflect on missions to British Isles, strength of Latter-day Saint women
While standing on the Liverpool docks, President Ballard and Elder Cook reflect on how women helped hold the Church together through World War II.
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Podcast
Episode 129: General conference special hosted by Mary Richards — How JustServe is blessing the world, one project at a time
After writing about JustServe as a Church News reporter, Mary Richards interviews those who connect with service opportunities the online platform.
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Leaders & Ministry
Video: Elder Holland on the early Apostles’ missions to England and its role in building the Church
At the John Benbow farm in England with President Ballard and Elder Cook, Elder Holland points out how the early Apostles’ missions helped the Church.
C. Shane Reese talks with media after being announced as BYU’s new president
Members
Who is C. Shane Reese, BYU’s next president?
A statistician and the BYU academic vice president, Reese almost left BYU as a new freshman in 1989; a brief meeting with another BYU president changed the course of his life.
Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaks during a devotional at the Provo Missionary Training Center
Leaders & Ministry
Approach missionary work with urgency, says Elder Quentin L. Cook at the Provo MTC
“Everybody that you love will be blessed because you are serving as an emissary of Jesus Christ,” Elder Cook promises missionaries.
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Podcast
Episode 128: ‘My soul delighteth in the song of the heart’ — Ryan Eggett, a music manager for the Church, on the power of music
Former MTC choir director joins the podcast to speak about the power of music, the role of music in general conference and sacrament meetings, and the ability of music to testify of Jesus Christ.
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Living Faith
Sarah Jane Weaver: What we can learn from the urgency of early Latter-day Saint missionaries
Elder Quentin L. Cook invited missionaries to study “The Morning Breaks,” with lyrics penned by Elder Parley P. Pratt, and consider the urgency early missionaries felt.
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Leaders & Ministry
Video: How a mission prepared President Ballard for life
President M. Russell Ballard shares how serving as a young missionary in England and sharing the gospel helped solidify his testimony.
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Leaders & Ministry
How the Lord blessed President Ballard because he was willing to ‘preach, testify, witness’ that Jesus is the Savior and Redeemer
President M. Russell Ballard and Elder Quentin L. Cook visit New York City and Washington, D.C., ask leaders and missionaries to focus on people.
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Podcast
Episode 127: The communications director for Mesa Temple Events, Jill Bishop Adair, on the historic Mesa Easter Pageant
Jill Adair shares the history of the pageant that draws more than 100,000 people each year to the Mesa temple grounds to celebrate the life and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Robin Pedersen talks about the book, “Daughters in My Kingdom,” Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.
Living Faith
Sarah Jane Weaver: Why studying the past will help us shape the future
On March 17, 1842, 181 years ago, 20 women met in the Red Brick Store in Nauvoo to organize the Relief Society. See how their work is “of ordinary women doing extraordinary things.”
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Podcast
Episode 126: Church history specialist Ken Adkins on Belle Harris’ prison journal and her story of faith amid persecution
The Church Historian’s Press recently published the 1883 journal Belle Harris kept while she was in prison and Church history specialist Ken Adkins shares about her story of faith.
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Leaders & Ministry
What is important? The lives of the people ‘we’ve been able to help,’ says President Ballard to BYU business students
Speaking at an event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Melvin J. Ballard Center for Social Impact, President Ballard thanks those who bless the lives of others.
Elder Kevin S. Hamilton joins the Church News podcast to talk about RootsTech 2023.
Podcast
Episode 125: Elder Kevin S. Hamilton and FamilySearch CEO Steve Rockwood on how RootsTech 2023 is ‘uniting’ family history fans worldwide
Elder Kevin S. Hamilton, a General Authority Seventy and the executive director of the Church’s Family History Department, and FamilySearch CEO Steve Rockwood join the Church News podcast to discuss the events of RootsTech 2023.
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Living Faith
Sarah Jane Weaver: How the unique relationship between 2 Prophets blesses the Church
President Spencer W. Kimball and President Russell M. Nelson have had doctor-patient relationships along with those as Church leaders.
New Deseret News publisher Burke Olsen joins the Church News podcast to talk about the historic publication.
Podcast
Episode 124: New Deseret News publisher on why the Church owns a newspaper and its mission to be a voice of ‘light and truth’
Publisher Burke Olsen joined the Church News podcast to discuss the history of the Deseret News and how its early motto of “Truth and Liberty” have relevance today.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its affiliated investment manager, Ensign Peak Advisors Inc., have settled a matter with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, leaders announced in a statement
Global
Church, Ensign Peak settle matter with SEC; have remained in compliance since 2019
Church leaders cooperated with the government for a resolution to the issue. “We affirm our commitment to comply with the law,” they wrote in a statement.
An angled aerial video the blue Folsom High School football field from the 55 yard line to the end zone, where Folsom is in white letters on red background.
Members
Video: How college football recruit Walker Lyons learned to ‘Trust in God’ after an injury
Walker Lyons was injured in the first game of his high school senior year and had to put his trust in God during his recovery.
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Living Faith
Sarah Jane Weaver: How prayers for Turkey, Syria remind us that faith is the ‘preeminent force for good in the world’
Latter-day Saint leaders joined other faith leaders through the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable in a powerful prayer vigil for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria.
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Podcast
Episode 123: What does ‘all in’ gospel living mean to Latter-day Saint Living podcast host Morgan Jones Pearson?
Morgan Jones Pearson shares what she has learned as a Deseret Book author, an interviewer and a podcast host from the testimonies of other Church members on the Church News podcast.
President Dallin H, Oaks pauses to shake hands with a sister missionary sitting in a chapel filled with missionaries.
Leaders & Ministry
‘Live together with mutual respect for one another’s differences,’ says President Oaks
Speaking to Latter-day Saints in Chicago, President Oaks emphasizes the hope that “love and unselfish assistance would transcend all boundaries of nation, creed and color.”
President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement on the Respect for Marriage Act. in Chicago, Illinois, on Feb. 11, 2023,
Leaders & Ministry
Why Latter-day Saints leaders supported the Respect for Marriage Act; President Oaks clarifies the Church’s position
Speaking to stake and mission leaders in Illinois and Wisconsin, President Oaks addressed the Respect for Marriage Act — which codified same-sex marriage and also provided needed protections for religious expression.
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Living Faith
Video: Top college football recruit Walker Lyons is ‘Called to Serve’
Offers to play came from far and wide, but instead he accepted the call to serve in Norway.
In Episode 122 of the Church News podcast, Cotopaxi gear founder Davis Smith and his wife, Asialene Smith, share about their call to lead the Brazil Recife North Mission.
Podcast
Episode 122: Cotopaxi founders Davis and Asialene Smith on stepping away from their company to serve as mission leaders in Brazil
How did Cotopaxi gear founder Davis Smith receive his call to lead the Brazil Recife North Mission? He shares his story in this week’s episode of the Church News podcast.
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Living Faith
Sarah Jane Weaver: The question that answers all doubt
Sarah Jane Weaver’s uncle Bill Bracy died last week — leaving others to contemplate his life, testimony and most important lesson.
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Podcast
Episode 121: The Young Women general presidency on how youth are proving they ‘can do all things through Christ’
President Bonnie H. Cordon, Sister Michelle D. Craig and Sister Rebecca L. Craven talk about implementing the new “For the Strength of Youth” guide.
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Podcast
Episode 120: Church History Department’s Matt Heiss on collecting, preserving and sharing records
At the end of a long career to acquire, manage and train others to collect Church history, Matt Heiss talks about the blessings of record keeping.
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Leaders & Ministry
Video: Favorite moments from Church President Nelson’s 5-year ministry Part 2
In the second video of a series titled “Five Years of Leadership,’ President Nelson speaks to the NAACP, reflects on Washington, D.C. and discusses the Church’s COVID-19 response.
Photo of Elder Jeffrey R. and Sister Patricia Holland together outside the Cedar City Utah Temple.
Living Faith
Sarah Jane Weaver: The message of hope delivered in S. Utah, Puerto Rico — ‘You are not forgotten’
How Elder Jeffrey R. Holland’s message from Southern Utah and the dedication of the San Juan temple signal “a future filled with hope.”
Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé, center, and his counselors Bishop W. Christopher Waddell, left, and Bishop L. Todd Budge, right, are pictured in their office at the Church Office Building.
Podcast
Episode 119: Inside Church Headquarters — The Presiding Bishopric and their role to provide temporal support to the divine mission of the Church
Presiding Bishop Gérald Caussé, Bishop W. Christopher Waddell and Bishop L. Todd Budge answer the question: “What does the Presiding Bishopric do?”