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BYU Speeches · 100 episodes with transcripts

A spiritual boost, right at your fingertips. Speakers from all walks of life are invited to speak at BYU each Tuesday and share their experiences with the student body—and with you.

Spoken has transcripts of 100 BYU Speeches episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from September 29, 2026.

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Latest BYU Speeches transcripts

Why Everyone Should Be Religious | Ross G. Douthat | September 2026

September 29, 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

Welcome to the recent Speeches podcast, presented by BYU Speeches, featuring inspiring new devotionals and forums given each week on BYU campus. Be sure to check out our other podcasts by searching BYU Speeches wherever you get your podcasts, or by visiting speeches.byu.edu/podcasts.

Ross Douthat (0:23)

Thank you so much for that incredibly kind and only mildly daunting introduction.

Give me 10 seconds to calibrate myself with the clock in front of me, because I know that many of you have to disperse to academic pursuits at a very precise moment, 33 minutes from now. So I'm going to try and hit that mark exactly to make up for the fact that, as maybe a few of you know, I am actually about six…

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