Pulpit is a critical digital edition of Latter-day Saint General Conference discourse — every recorded talk from 1830 to the present, each traced to its best surviving witness and honestly graded for fidelity. The editorial method →
The corpus in time
1830–2026
Every recorded discourse, on the shelf of time — 10,972 of them. The record thins to a trickle in the first decades and swells through the twentieth century. Zoom in and the density resolves into conferences, then into titles.
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Curated timelines
Paths through the corpus — landmark talks on one theme, selected and annotated, read in sequence from 1830 to now.
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General Conference · April 1901
“Eternities may begin, eternities may end, and still we shall have our individuality. Our identity is insured. We will be ourselves, and nobody else.”
The shelf, by decade
| 1830s | 19 |
|---|---|
| 1840s | 19 |
| 1850s | 265 |
| 1860s | 299 |
| 1870s | 178 |
| 1880s | 169 |
| 1890s | 321 |
| 1900s | 734 |
| 1910s | 961 |
| 1920s | 942 |
| 1930s | 743 |
| 1940s | 695 |
| 1950s | 590 |
| 1960s | 710 |
| 1970s | 854 |
| 1980s | 700 |
| 1990s | 765 |
| 2000s | 780 |
| 2010s | 765 |
| 2020s | 463 |