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New 'Secret Weapon' Lets Moms Wirelessly Disable Devices to Get Their Families to Come to Dinner

Facebook - Is this a problem in your household...? Posted by Faakhir Mehmood on Thursday, April 2, 2015 ...

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What Huge Numbers for the #BecauseHeLives Video Say About the Church's International Outreach

Deseret News - Viewers accessed "Because He Lives" 88.5 times per second throughout Easter Sunday, but the success of the eight-day LDS effort to share a two-minute video of Christ was about more than staggering numbers. Though there were plenty of those. The video was watched nearly 30 million times, according to the missionary department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That's five times more viewers than saw last year's LDS Easter video. The largest figure, however, was 329 million — the number of times people visiting YouTube's homepage on Sunday saw at least part of a 15-second clip of "Because...

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Christ and Women: 4 Powerful Moments from the New Testament

Camille Fronk Olson, adapted from "Women of the New Testament" - In a bold disregard for male superiority, the Savior was not ashamed to describe Himself by using feminine images. He is the mother hen yearning to protect her own under her ample wings if they will come to Him in faith ( Matthew 23:37 ; Luke 13:37 ), and the woman who searched her house until she found the lost coin ( Luke 15:8–10 ). He invited all who were thirsty to come to Him and drink from His koilia ( John 7:37–38 ), an interesting but debated image. The term refers to a “hollow of the body” and is typically...

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LDS Olympic Hopeful Returns from Mission, Makes Remarkable Comeback

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10 Forgotten Truths Joseph Smith Taught

Whatsoever Is Good - 1.“I say to all those who are disposed to set up stakes for the Almighty, You will come short of the glory of God. To become a joint heir of the heirship of the Son, one must put away all his false traditions.” (TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH, PG. 321) We all have our little “traditions.” Some of them are developed over time through our own weaknesses, others are learned from other people. If there is anything that I have learned from Joseph Smith, it’s that I need to study the scriptures and revelations so that I can identify those...

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Family Baptized After Book of Mormon Miraculously Survives House Fire

Mission Geek - It was Sister Kalonihea’s dream to serve her mission in a place she could, ‘roll up her sleeves and get to work’. A mission call to the Philippines was exactly what she hoped for. In the Tacloban Mission, she was regularly tending to crops, helping to fix up homes and clean out rubbish. Fire fighting wasn’t uncommon in these tightly packed communities. Many times missionaries would run to get buckets of water, helping as the entire neighbourhood would assist in fighting the flames of a kitchen fire or electrical failure. One very hot Tuesday afternoon, Sister Kalonihea and her companion, Sister...

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What We're Still Missing About Modesty

Samantha Shelley - Discussions about modesty have saturated the internet and the news feeds of Church members for a while now, leaving a lot of us with little desire to read yet another article about it. I’d hazard to say that interest in the topic has begun to die down, after endless rounds of “Yes, yoga pants!” “No yoga pants!” and of course, “Stop talking about yoga pants!” I won’t be discussing the merits of spandex as outerwear in this article, because that’s been done to death. I’d rather address the subject of “modesty” from a Book of Mormon standpoint. We believe that the...

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Church Formalizes Relationship with Australian Red Cross

Newsroom - On Monday, 2nd February, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Australian Red Cross Society (Red Cross) in Queensland.   Elder Keith Walker signed on behalf of the Church and Kevin Keefe, the Executive Director of Red Cross Queensland, signed on behalf of the Red Cross.  The purpose of this MoU is to formalise the relationship between the Red Cross and the Church in Australia in the area of disaster management in Queensland.  The agreement provides a broad framework for cooperation and engagement between the two organisations in the support...

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New LDS Trio Hits Top 10 on 2 Billboard Charts with First Album

Shadow Mountain - GENTRI, aka The Gentlemen Trio, earned their first spot on the Billboard Charts as their debut, self-titled album hit No. 5 on the Classical Chart and No. 3 on the Classical Crossover Chart. GENTRI also debuted at No. 45 on the Current Contemporary Christian Chart. The seven-song EP  features five original songs, including their first single, “DARE,” and two covers. Each song features GENTRI’s powerful three-part harmony and is accompanied by a rich, cinematic backing score arranged and produced under the direction of producer Stephen Nelson. The songs range from epic dramatic pieces to tender ballads and focus on inspirational and...

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Why Symbols of Christ are Never About the City

I Go By Ari - I live about 20 minutes away from a beautiful canyon filled with a stunning national forest and over 200 natural climbing routes. Whenever I have the chance, I go up there to explore, hike, rock climb, and sometimes just to think. A lot of my friends joke about how I pretty much live up there. Secretly, I wish I did. The truth is that I've never been a big city person. There's something about concrete, construction, noise pollution, and crowds that really turns me off. Whenever I've stayed in a city, I've felt the loneliest I ever have in my life,...