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A story a day until Christmas

When December arrives, there’s a particular kind of magic in opening something small each day—a piece of chocolate behind a paper door, a candle, a verse, a song. This year, the Center is adding its own take on the tradition: a daily short story, written by Latter-day Saint authors from across generations.

Imagine this: each morning until Christmas, you open the Center’s website to find a new piece of writing waiting for you. Some will make you laugh. Others might break your heart a little. A few will make you pause with bated breath.

The lineup of contributing authors is extraordinary. You’ll find new, never-before-shared written works from Richard Lyman Bushman, Luisa Perkins, George Handley, Barrett Burgin, Todd and Zoë Petersen, and Daniel Yen Tu, alongside beloved voices from the past such as Nephi Anderson, Susa Young Gates, Josephine Spencer, Maurine Whipple, and John Held, Jr.

Contemporary favorites like James Goldberg, Steven L. Peck, Allison Hong Merrill, Darlene Young, William Morris, Isaac Richards, and Liz Busby round out the calendar, each offering a glimpse of their creativity and the texture of daily life.

Some stories take place in chapels or family kitchens. Others happen on distant highways or in imagined futures. One story unfolds in a nursing home with a stolen typewriter; another begins in the mind of a would-be witch. Together, they form a mosaic of Latter-day Saint experience: speculative, historical, devotional, funny, and deeply human.

By Christmas Eve, you’ll have read twenty-four stories spanning nearly 150 years of Mormon literature—small gifts will trace how our storytelling has evolved, and how much it still connects us.

So this December, join the Center in a new kind of advent tradition.

How to use the Advent Calendar

Most stories will release on December 1st, but we are holding a few back for some special dates. Join the Advent Calendar waitlist to be alerted when new stories release–and to get reminders along the way.