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{Single Saints} The Rebound Relationship

Jessica Carter - I’ve been back in the dating scene for about a year now (after waiting 8 months after my divorce), and in that time I’ve learned quite a bit. But the biggest lesson of all has been how to recognize when I’m dating a rebounder. The first time I dated one, I had no clue. I was new to the dating scene. I didn’t recognize the signs and didn’t know the right questions to ask. Let’s just say it didn’t end well. The second time I dated a rebounder, I knew he had just been dumped, but I thought he was a...

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{Lifestyle} Back-to-School Ideas

Ashley Evanson - Photo from It Is What It Is Smartie Pants Treats Photo from Modern Renaissance Very Special Back-to-School Dinner Photo from I Am Momma Hear Me Roar DIY Boy Backpack DIY Girl Backpack Photo from Under the Sycamore Photo from NieNie Dialogues Back-to-School Dinner Celebration Photo from Happiness Is… Back-to-School Fairy Bags Photo from Sweet Designs Back-to-School Dessert Party Photo from Bee in Our Bonnet First-Day-of-School Survival Kit Photo from Make and Takes The Wheels on the Bus Toddler Game ...

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{A&E} Watch This: Saints and Soldiers Opens Another Chapter of WWII

Jenny Spencer - After the paratroopers found themselves in enemy territory, they were caught in an immediate attack. As some tried to rendezvous with their unit, they met members of the French Résistance. Little did they know that their sacrifices for the Résistance would write their legacy on American and French hearts alike. Adam Abel, producer of the highly acclaimed film Saints and Soldiers , has brought the story of three of these paratroopers to the big screen in his new film, Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed . Because the original Saints and Soldiers film was such a success, Abel decided to tell a...

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Pass It On: A Message from Pres. Monson

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Romney-Ryan ticket makes U.S. religious history

CNN - In selecting Paul Ryan for his running mate, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has made modern political history: a major party ticket with no Protestant Christian. Some historians call it the first ever. Others say it's technically the first since Abraham Lincoln. And there is an argument to be made regarding Dwight Eisenhower. But in any case, "this Republican ticket really symbolizes the passing of an era," said William Galston, senior fellow with the Brookings Institution. ...

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Media tours begin in new Brigham City LDS temple

Deseret News - Proclaiming Tuesday "a great day, a happy day" in northern Utah, Elder William R. Walker of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened the doors of the church's new Brigham City Utah Temple to the media. "This community was founded during Utah's pioneer era," said Elder Walker, executive director of the LDS Church's temple department. "For all of that time, the residents have hoped and prayed for a temple. So when (LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson) announced three years ago that a temple would be built in Brigham City, there has...

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The "Mormon Issue" is not going away

Christian Post - It is the number that may very well define the outcome of the 2012 presidential race. Less than a year ago, a Gallup poll revealed that twenty-two percent of Americans said they would not vote for a Mormon to be president. Only atheists and gays rated less popular. And breaking this number down between Republicans and Democrats did not improve the picture. The same poll indicated that twenty percent of Republicans and twenty-seven percent of Democrats would not vote for a Mormon presidential candidate. Gallop also reported that these percentages have remained essentially unchanged since 1967 when the firm first began...

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RS/MP Lesson 16: “Offer Up Thy Sacraments upon My Holy Day” (George Albert Smith Manual)

Feast Upon the Word - From the Life of George Albert Smith The lesson starts with a great a teaching moment given by President Smith’s mother. As a child, President Smith wanted to play sports on Sunday. When tempted with this action he records his mother’s reaction, “She did not say, ‘You cannot do it,’ but she did say: ‘Son, you will be happier if you do not do that.’ I want to tell you I am grateful for that kind of training in the home.” Two things stand out to me in this story. 1. Faithful Sabbath observance (like most other commandments) cannot be forced....

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'Mormon Times TV' to offer myth-busting tips

Deseret News - Perhaps more than ever before, the nation is taking note of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The media certainly have. Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy has people asking questions and researching the Mormon faith. Many are perusing the church’s mormon.org website — chatting online with missionaries, looking over LDS foundational beliefs, watching video profiles of Mormons from all walks of life, reading the “Why I believe” stories of thousands more, and even looking up places to attend worship services. Not to mention the attention the LDS faith garnered from major news magazine cover stories, CNN’s Kansas City Temple tour...

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Connections between addiction recovery and the Book of Mormon

Deseret News - Many have read the words of Proverbs chapter 29, verse 18, which says, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." "But what happens where there is vision?" J. Douglas LeCheminant asked the class of a few hundred seated in the N. Eldon Tanner Building during Brigham Young University's Campus Education Week. "Where there is vision, the people flourish." ...