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Christine Rappleye

Christine Rappleye is a reporter for the Church News. She has been an editor and reporter for the Deseret News in the features sections and was also part of the Visual Editing team. She previously worked for the Beaumont Enterprise in Southeast Texas as a reporter and editor. She was born and raised in Southeast Texas and graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, with a communications degree. She served a mission in the Taiwan Taipei Mission. She tries to take advantage of the “Greatest Snow on Earth” by her attempts to stay upright on skis in the winter and hopes to not kill the plants in her container garden on her balcony in the summer.


More than 500 people gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony for the Kaohsiung Taiwan Temple as construction begins on the 2nd house of the Lord on the island.

The Christmas lights on Temple Square in Salt Lake City were turned on after Thanksgiving. See photos of this year’s light display and find out how to see them and other Temple Square events.

See the Christmas lights at the Church’s temple visitors’ center grounds, including Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Temple Hill in Oakland, Mesa Arizona Temple, Washington D.C. Temple and the Hamilton New Zealand Temple.

The Bells at Temple Square’s 2023 holiday concerts that were scheduled for Nov. 17-18 in the Salt Lake Tabernacle have been canceled. Watch the spring concert and last year’s holiday concert here.

Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square music director Mack Wilberg debuted new music during the orchestra’s fall concert — the group’s first featured concert in four years. See photos of the concert.

Additional information about each broadcast will be published before the event.

The Bells at Temple Square’s 2023 holiday concerts that were scheduled for Nov. 17-18 in the Salt Lake Tabernacle have been canceled. Watch the spring concert and last year’s holiday concert here.

Broadway’s Michael Maliakel and actor Lesley Nicol will be the guest artists at the Tabernacle Choir’s 2023 Christmas concert. Ticket registration for the random selection process opens Oct. 24.

“I feel that we actually represent what the world ought to be about ... in which people would live together not in dissonance but in harmony,” said Rev. Amos Brown.

Morehouse College and Spelman College glee club members talk about singing with the Tabernacle Choir in advance of Sunday’s “Music & the Spoken Word” broadcast.

Tabernacle organist Brian Mathias will perform at the Tabernacle Organ Virtuoso Performance Series on Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Watch it here, plus stream five more past concerts.

From Gladys Knight and Roma Downey in 2000, the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square’s Christmas concert has featured a variety of guest performers.

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, a multicultural choir from northern Utah and a young single adult choir from Utah County provided music for the October 2023 general conference.

Meet the 10 singers from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, the Philippines, New Zealand, South Africa, Ecuador and Puerto Rico who joined the Tabernacle Choir.

As a service to our readers, the Church News has created a downloadable PDF summarizing each talk offered during the October 2023 general conference.

“Your choices today will determine three things: where you will live throughout all eternity, the kind of body with which you will be resurrected, and those with whom you will live forever. So, think celestial,” said President Russell M. Nelson.

“To assist you to qualify for the rich blessings Heavenly Father has for you, I invite you to adopt the practice of ‘thinking celestial.’ Thinking celestial means being spiritually minded,” said President Russell M. Nelson.

From having more patience on social media to changing hearts in relationships, readers share their experiences of being a peacemaker.

So far in 2023, The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square have welcomed international singers, toured in Mexico, expanded the weekly “Music & the Spoken Word,” and presented a variety of choir, orchestra, bells and organ concerts.

“Tuya Es La Gloria” is the fourth video collaboration with the Tabernacle Choir and the Piano Guys. The others include the folk hymn “Wayfaring Stranger” and an organ-piano duet of “Waterfall.”

Orchestra at Temple Square fall concert on Oct. 27 will feature new work by Mack Wilberg and attendees can receive tickets to Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra’s Christmas concert.

Reservations to tour the Orem Utah Temple are available online. The public open house is from Friday, Oct. 27, through Saturday, Dec. 16, excluding Sundays and Thanksgiving Day.

Moses Lake Washington Temple was dedicated by Elder Quentin L. Cook and is the Church’s 182nd temple. It is the third of three temples dedicated in historic weekend.

Classical 89’s free Organ Fest XIV will feature the five Tabernacle organists and two Cathedral of the Madeleine organists on Sept. 15.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is looking for both soloists and choral singers to record songs for the new hymnbook project. The application deadline is Sept. 17.

Jesus Christ’s “teachings are the guiding light that illuminates our path,” Latter-day Saint testified during an interfaith event hosted by a Pope Francis during first-ever papal visit to Mongolia.

The Church News would like to hear the experiences of those who accepted President Nelson’s invitation to choose peace and be a peacemaker.

Tension is a natural part of mortal life, Emily de Schweinitz Taylor points out during BYU Education Week. But it doesn’t need to grow into conflict or contention.

Daniel Kerr, the Music Department chair at BYU–Idaho, will perform at the Tabernacle Organ Virtuoso Performance Series on Aug. 18 at 7:30 p.m. Watch it here, plus stream four more past concerts.

Elder Youngjoon Kwon was nominated to South Korea’s Supreme Court on June 9 and confirmed on July 19. He has been serving as an Area Seventy since 2020.