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LDS teens are most religious, faithful

Deseret News - Kenda Creasy Dean, a Methodist minister and professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, is no fan of Mormon doctrine. "It may be difficult for a 'gentile' or non-Mormon to read Mormon views on God, community, vocation and eschatology without raising an eyebrow," she writes in her book "Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church" (Oxford, 2010), "but it is just as difficult to read the data on Mormon teenagers without feeling a hint of awe." Dean, a collaborator on the well-respected National Study of Youth and Religion, indicts her own mainstream Christianity: The religious faith of...

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MSNBC: Bus tours journey into polygamist heartland

MSNBC - A peek inside a polygamist community and their isolated way of life is now just a bus ride away for sightseers from around the world. "I was born into polygamy," said guide Richard Holm as a tour bus lumbered into Colorado City, Ariz. Billed as the "Polygamy Experience," the four-hour, $70 tour takes visitors through the middle of the polygamist enclave on the Utah-Arizona border. Against a backdrop of stunning mountains and pink rocks children play in yards, families picnic in parks and teenage boys gallop their horses away from the guests. Women with old-fashioned braided hair and pioneer dresses usher...

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LDS Church draws upon diverse membership to translate General Conference

KCSG Television - When asked how he feels about his colleagues, Brad Lindsay says a lot with just three words. “I love them,” he states, drawing a wide grin. Lindsay is manager of translation services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where he works to ensure the Church’s twice-yearly general conference is translated into 92 different languages for broadcast around the world. The Church’s culturally and linguistically diverse membership allows it to recruit literally hundreds of interpreters to accomplish the colossal task. The interpretation of general conference is immense. Global broadcasts reach millions of listeners, making it one of the largest...

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Take the poll: Agnostics, Jews, LDS score high in religion poll

Deseret News - Which of the following religion questions can you answer correctly? What was Mother Teresa's religion? What was Joseph Smith's religion? On what day does the Jewish Sabbath begin? What was the name of the person whose writings and actions inspired the Protestant Reformation? What is the name of the Islamic holy book? Simple enough? Maybe so. If you answered "Catholic," "Mormon," "Friday," "Martin Luther" and "Quran," you're batting 1.000 — having correctly answered five of the religious-knowledge questions in the Pew Research Center's recent survey of religious knowledge. On the average, Americans correctly answered only half of the 32 questions on...

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Australian Saints hold annual surf competition

Kaela Worthen Gardner - Sun. Surfing. Competition. High standards. Testimony meetings. Firesides. All at once. Each year Saints in Australia gather for the Coffs Soul Surfest in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, founded and organized by Catilin and Garth Mackie, with the annual competition last week marking the fifth year of the event. The event spanned four days, starting with the surfing and body boarding competition on Sept. 23, and the competition continued through the weekend. “Surfest started as a way to help some of our youth who were being tempted to enter surf competitions on Sundays,” Caitlin said. The first year, the Mackies relied...

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The Church’s International Video Contest invites members to “Make Your Own Mormon Message”

Angela Lankford - Mormon Messages provide a sense of inspiration, hope and perspective to the lives of the members of the Church and to the lives of those within their communities as well. As Mormon Messages are played on screens within Temple visitor’s centers, online and televisions, the Church is able to spread the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Church invites its members to help promote the gospel message by participating in the International Video Contest to create their own Mormon Message. The purpose of the International video contest is to “give more members of The Church of Jesus Christ of...

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TV plans put 'Sister Wives' family on radar of Lehi police

Deseret News - Prosecuting polygamists for bigamy is rare in Utah. In the past decade, only two polygamous men — Tom Green and Rodney Holm — were convicted of the third-degree felony and a justice court judge was removed from office for that crime. Whether county prosecutors decide to file charges against Kody Brown remains to be seen. The Lehi man and his four wives and 16 children are the subject of a new TLC docu-series called "Sister Wives." The day after the show premiered Sunday night, the Lehi Police Department announced it is conducting a bigamy investigation of the family. At their home...

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Survey: Americans don't know much about religion

KSL - A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn't know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ. More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in...

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Fox 13 video: Author talks about writing President Monson's biography

Fox 13 News -   Utah-based author, Heidi Swinton says that the LDS President, Thomas S. Monson comes across very genuine in character. Swinton is the author of Monson's new biography, "To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson." Swinton says it is a story about how he bacame a worldwide church leader and how the experiences in his life prepared him for that role. "I think the most fascinating thing about president Monson is that he is exactly who you think he is. He is warm and engaging one on one just like he from the pulpit," she says. ...