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To Pray or Play, That Is Not a Question
MR says: A fantastic article. Oh, and congrats to the BYU women's rugby team for an amazing season. The field was empty Sunday. Just a day earlier, the BYU women's rugby players had happily posed for a team photo under the stadium's scoreboard. The lights said the Cougars had just beaten...
Elder Quentin L. Cook Offers Plan to Obtain "the Good Life"
Elder Quentin L. Cook, a member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered the Brigham Young University-Hawaii commencement address on 10 April inside the George Q. Cannon Activities Center. In addition to discussing the eternal nature of the...
Africa, Caribbean lead way in LDS growth
MR says: A look at the Church's growth stats. The LDS Church is growing fastest in Africa and the Caribbean, while the United States, Brazil and Mexico continue to add the most new members. So say new 2009 statistics released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many significant...
Anti-Defamation League leader says Mormons and Jews have a lot in common
Jews and Mormons have a lot in common and should stand closer together. That's what the leader of the Anti-Defamation League stressed during his first visit to Salt Lake City. Abraham H. Foxman, the National Director of the ADL, was in Utah this week and told the Deseret News Editorial...
Local Church Leaders Helped Haitians Through Tragedy
MR says: An example of why the Church organizational structure works. The leadership structure of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized to quickly respond to disasters and meet the needs of those who suffer. Such was the case following the earthquake in Haiti as local Mormon leaders...
ESPN's take on the BYU football QB race
BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall has always preferred to have a starting quarterback in place by the end of spring practice. “In the past, I’ve really liked to have a starter by the end of spring practice so they can develop leadership through their own workouts during the summer,” Mendenhall...
Head of Church Public Affairs on Glenn Beck and caring for the poor
MR says: Very well-crafted response to the Glenn Beck/Jim Wallis "social justice" debate. Q:Fox News commentator Glenn Beck claims that faith-based calls for "social justice" are really ideological calls for "forced redistribution of wealth . . . under the guise of charity and/or justice," and that...
Larry King files for divorce
MR says: Much has been said about Larry King's marriage to his younger (and LDS) wife. This is sad for their family especially since 2 children are affected. Larry King and wife Shawn Southwick are calling it quits. Each filed papers in L.A. County Superior Court Wednesday citing "irreconcilable...
“Why We Believe,” New Unofficial Mormon Website Launches!
MR says: Cool concept. On October 31st, 2009 ten young single adult Mormons came together at the Boston Singles’ LDS Education Conference with one hour to form an idea for an innovative way to share the gospel. Speakers at the Conference included David Neeleman, co-founder of The More Good Foundation...
BYU by the numbers
MR says: Over 1 million bananas?!! The Daily Universe recently set out to discover interesting numbers relating to the university and its 32,955 students. One source of large numbers is Dining Services. Dean Wright, director of Dining Services, said more than 31,000 meals are provided in all campus...
Life expectancy of LDS Church members far exceeds general population
It's been known that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have a longer life expectancy, but even researchers are surprised at how much longer Church members live than the general population. Researchers at UCLA are constantly reviewing data from a 25-year-long survey that...
How Donny Osmond's faith has guided his life
MR says: This is an excellent article. Make sure you click over to read the full article and see what Donny has to say about Elvis. Entertainment can be a troubling profession these days, with temptation, pornography and immorality more rampant than ever before. Probably few members of The Church of Jesus...
South Park creators will open Book of Mormon musical in 2011
MR says: They claim it will have "heart" but something tells me it will be served with a fair amount of controversy. "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone demonstrated a flair for musical theater, lovingly sending up its conventions and traditions while knocking out a batch of witty, catchy tunes...
Mormons few among BYU men’s tennis team
MR says: This is a cool article all about the environment at BYU and how the non-LDS players decide to attend and adjust to the school. Unlike basketball and football, tennis is not a sport that seems to produce a wealth of LDS players at the college level. Fortunately for BYU, having a coach who played at...
Northwest College and LDS student recruitment
MR says: We featured this news when it came out but it is interesting to read FAIR's letters to the college. Recently there has been some commotion about a recruiting letter to LDS at Northwest College in Powell Wyoming. ...Working at a college myself, I recognize that some of the issue has nothing to do...
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