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Elder Clark G. Gilbert, General Authority Seventy and Commissioner of the Church Educational System, delivered Tuesday’s devotional address. He spoke on how BYU’s mission enables a union of sacred and secular studies and shared four attributes of Christ that can bring us comfort during perilous times.

Elders Jeffrey R. Holland and D. Todd Christofferson and authors Shankar Vedantam, James Fallows and Amy Chua headline the upcoming BYU devotional and forums list released Friday.

Here are your 2021 Readers Choice Award winners for Best Coastal Small Town, Best Historic Small Town, Best Small Town Cultural Scene, Best Small...

Jul 15, 2021 7 hrs ago Award-winning journalists and bestselling authors James and Deborah Fallows will be the featured speakers at the West Virginia Humanities Council’s annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities, presented on Thursday, Oct. 21. The event returns this year after a hiatus due to Covid in 2020. The Fallows are the creative minds behind the new HBO documentary “Our Towns,” which is drawn from their 2018 New York Times bestselling book Our Towns: A 100,0...

From 'The Outpost' to 'Richard Jewell', here are the five best movies and docs on Showmax this June.

If you happened to catch the latest season of Netflixs The Crown, you couldnt miss Gillian Andersons stunning performance as the late Margaret Thatcher, Britains prime minister from 1979 to 1990. But how authentic was Andersons portrayal? Or Meryl Streeps in the film The Iron Lady? Nile Gardiner, an aide to Thatcher and director of Thatcher Center for Freedom and fellow at Heritage Foundation, will dismantle media portrayals as needed and describe the real person at the heart of world politic...

Indie Film: Eastport among the small towns profiled in uplifting HBO documentary Our Towns, based on a book, is streaming on HBO Max. By Dennis Perkins HBO Max “How does a town like this keep coming up with new ways to create a future for itself,” ask journalists and authors James and Deborah Fallows concerning the small Washington County city of Eastport. After all, they add, “It’s not like Downeast Mainers are famous for their optimism.” Something of a burn there, but the Fallows�...

‘Street’ smarts, ‘Towns’ team, Down East dispatches By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated April 21, 2021, 1 hour ago Email to a Friend From left: Jim Henson, Frank Oz. and Jon Stone in the early days of "Sesame Street."Robert Fuhring/Courtesy Sesame Workshop In the 50-plus years since it first aired, on Nov. 10, 1969, “Sesame Street” has remained television’s most innovative and influential children’s show. Marilyn Agrelo’s comprehensive, engag...

2021 to Feature Global Summit Double Dip Jefferson Educational Societys signature speaker series gets two installments by Matt Swanseger Ali Zaidi, April Ryan, David Ignatius, Leana Wen, and Rasahwn Ray will take part in the latest Jefferson Educational Society Global Summit This year, the Jefferson Educational Society is challenging hungry minds to a dual. Not only will its signature Global Summit speaker series be back, it will be back ...