Stories
On keeping what matters.
Quiet notes on memory, craft, and the things we don’t want to lose.
- 01On keeping · Aug 21, 20268 min listen
Two songs called 'Slow Down'
Elder Patrick Kearon built a BYU Education Week devotional around 'Slow Down' — the song Sissel sang and President Ballard once sent him. I wrote one too.
by the founder of UNA→ - 02Company · Jul 31, 20262 min listen
UNA is on the App Store
The quiet place is open. What the first release holds, what's still ahead, and the one thing worth doing tonight.
by the founder of UNA→ - 03On keeping · Jul 23, 20264 min listen
The homecoming interview — ten questions for the first week home
A returned missionary's stories stay unpolished for about two weeks — then the versions harden. Ten questions to record in that window, before the mission becomes a highlight reel.
by the founder of UNA→ - 04On keeping · Jul 23, 20264 min listen
The museum and the nightstand
FamilySearch Memories is public by default — even for living people. That's right for a family museum, and wrong for a private record. An honest map of which is which.
by the founder of UNA→ - 05Faith & technology · Jul 23, 20264 min listen
The voice, not a ghost
A new industry offers to simulate the people you've lost. There's a better inheritance — the real voice, kept while it's alive — and a reason of covenant to prefer it.
by the founder of UNA→ - 06Craft & design · Jul 23, 20264 min listen
Why reflections never give advice
UNA's reflections will never tell you what to do — no 'you should,' no verdicts, no counsel. The design philosophy behind that refusal, and the doctrine it defers to.
by the founder of UNA→ - 07Faith & technology · Jul 21, 20266 min listen
Elder Gong on AI: a member's guide to 'Hearing God's Voice'
Elder Gerrit W. Gong's 2026 series 'Faith, Dignity, and Human Flourishing: Hearing God's Voice in an Age of AI' — the four relationships, three guideposts, and four invitations, with quotes and where to watch.
by the founder of UNA→ - 08Faith & technology · Jul 21, 20264 min listen
Should AI write your sacrament meeting talk?
What the General Handbook and Elder Gong actually say about using new tools for talks and lessons — the plain answer, the reason behind the line, and where help is honestly help.
by the founder of UNA→ - 09Faith & technology · Jul 21, 20265 min listen
What has the Church said about AI? A plain-language guide
From the 2024 guiding principles to General Handbook 38.8.47 and recent apostolic addresses — what The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has actually taught about AI, in one place, with sources.
by the founder of UNA→ - 10On keeping · Jul 13, 20264 min listen
A people who write things down
Keeping a record isn't a hobby for Latter-day Saints — it's the opening line of the revelation given the day the Church was organized. What the prophets actually said, and the gap most of us haven't noticed.
by the founder of UNA→ - 11On keeping · Jul 13, 20264 min listen
Forty-seven seconds
A voicemail you almost deleted can become the most valuable thing you own. Three ways to save a voice you love — tonight, with the phone already in your pocket.
by the founder of UNA→ - 12On keeping · Jul 13, 20263 min listen
The questions you can't ask out loud
For the ones sitting in the pew with a list they've never said anywhere. Writing a question down isn't betrayal — it might be the most honest act of faith you make this year.
by the founder of UNA→ - 13On keeping · Jul 13, 20263 min listen
Before we get to Malachi
Come, Follow Me reaches the turning of hearts this December. A quiet way to arrive at those verses with more than a lesson plan.
by the founder of UNA→ - 14On keeping · Jul 13, 20263 min listen
Your missionary's emails are a record — save them like one
The weekly email is the most complete account of a mission that will ever exist, and it lives in an account the family doesn't own. How to keep it safe, starting this week.
by the founder of UNA→ - 15On keeping · Jul 11, 20265 min listen
The ten questions worth asking your grandmother — this Sunday
You don't need training, or the perfect moment. You need a Sunday afternoon, a phone on the table, and ten good questions. Here they are.
by the founder of UNA→ - 16On keeping · Jul 3, 20262 min listen
Where do your mission photos go when the account closes?
Most returned missionaries lose their mission photos within weeks of coming home, quietly. Here's what happens, and how to keep what's yours.
by the founder of UNA→ - 17On keeping · Jun 2, 20261 min listen
Write one true thing
The whole practice of keeping fits in a single honest line.
by the founder of UNA→ - 18Craft & design · May 19, 20261 min listen
Why UNA has no streaks
On building a quiet tool in a category that runs on pressure.
by the founder of UNA→ - 19Company · Apr 28, 20261 min listen
Named after my grandmother
The story behind UNA’s name, and the promise it carries.
by the founder of UNA→ - 20Craft & design · Apr 10, 20262 min listen
How I keep it safe
Not the privacy policy — the reasoning behind it, plainly and without a lecture.
by the founder of UNA→ - 21Company · Mar 5, 20261 min listen
Independent, on purpose
Why UNA answers to the people who use it, and no one else.
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