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Mormon Media Observer: Journalistic bias against Mormons is over-rated

Deseret News - One of the most common questions I have heard over the years about reporters goes something like this: Why is it that journalists identify people as Latter-day Saints when they say something criminal or embarrassing. I answer two ways: First, such identification, when it happens, can be seen as a compliment. When a Catholic priest or a football coach or a police officer or a school principal commits a crime or does something stupid, it is more newsworthy than when a young day-laborer living down the street does the same thing. Some people have more expected of them given their position....

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The priesthood revelation that changed the world, on 'Mormon Times TV'

Deseret News - The summer of 1978 was a turning point in my life. I’d just graduated from Brigham Young University in broadcast journalism and made a last-minute decision to apply for an internship in New York City — the Y.’s first group of communications students ever to work in the Big Apple as interns. My marriage prospects weren’t too enticing and the job offers weren’t pouring in, so I thought it would be the perfect place to get my feet wet in the industry (other than the TV internship I’d done the previous summer at KSL. Who’d have thought it would take me...

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What Mormon women want

Washington Post - As Mitt Romney becomes the first LDS candidate to secure a major party presidential nomination, Mormon women will be watching with special interest. Then again, we have always been interested in politics. Mormon women in Utah enjoyed the right to vote as early as 1870—a time in American history when many women rejected political involvement as the proper domain of men, and fully five decades before the achievement of U.S. women’s suffrage. ...

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Is 2012 good for the Mormons?

Washington Post - What are we to think, now that a Mormon has clinched the presidential nomination of one of America’s two major parties? The respectable Victorian men who ruled America’s politics during the 1912 election would have been stricken with chills at the thought of a presidential election a century hence pitting a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints against an African American. So looked at in one way, the 2012 election – like the 2008 – signals that America does seem to be a melting pot. African Americans and Mormons alike – like Catholics before them – once...

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Turf Wars, Talents and Spiritual Gifts

Segullah - In the last 30 years, I have been a member of about a dozen different wards. With each move, I must establish new friendships and create a niche among my fellow saints. Church is a place for shared faith, but it is also a place where many perform a skill that may or may not be related to one’s professional training. If it’s a skill that a sister does not use at work, this often makes church a particularly important venue for expressing that skill. ...

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Sharing Mormon Messages Videos

LDS Media Talk - After you watch a great Mormon Messages video, you want to share it with others, right? This article shows the various way you can share these great videos with family and friends. And when you use social media, maybe even complete strangers will notice them in the feeds of your friends. ...

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{LDSL Blog} Deals Inside LDS Living

LDS Living - If you pick up LDS Living's May/June issue, you'll notice all the lovely deals inside we have for you, our reader! Some of the discounts include: White Elegance: enter code LDSLiving for free shipping on online orders, or use this ad for 15% off in stores. Scripture Journal: free shipping on 2 or more journals Kate's Camisoles: $10 off any order of $50 or more with code SIMPLESAVE Of Precious Value: mention LDS Living and download a free song or download whole album for only $4.99; expires June 1 Find more great deals ! ...

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'Mormon Bachelor' begins new season

Jenny Spencer - LDS Living - When people tell the story of Cinderella, they usually tell it from her point of view. This time, it’s the prince who’s telling this story, and it involves hundreds of young ladies clamoring to be his one true love. Wouldn’t it be nice if the prince had help to sift through all those potential princesses? Well, now he does.  The next season of the Mormon Bachelor will air on themormonbachelorette.com this July, and this year’s prince charming is ready to find his Cinderella. Kent Tuttle is a BYU grad currently at dental school in Arizona. Measuring at 6’6”, he’s an avid...

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Mormon History Association highlights pioneer Saints of Canada at conference

Brooke Ward - LDS Living - Complete with cowboys, fugitives and dusty little cabins euphemistically dubbed ‘flannel palaces,’ the story of a Mormon settlement in southern Alberta reads with all the intrigue and romance of the Wild West. However, the migration north is first and foremost a story about faith and cultural resilience, said Lynn A. Rosenvall, who will discuss the transfer of Mormon culture to the region in his keynote address at the Mormon History Association’s upcoming 47th annual conference in Calgary, Alberta. “The exportation of Mormon culture from the Great Basin into southern Alberta’s grassy upper-plains is a chronicle of devotion, economic determination, resourcefulness and...

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Book of Mormon Lesson 23: "More Than One Witness"

Ted L. Gibbons - QUOTE OF THE WEEK:   The depth of the concepts in the Book of Mormon are a constant source of inspiration, if we will but contemplate them. There, more abundantly than in any other volume, the Lord opens the windows of heaven, not only to pour out blessings, but to let us look in. (Neal A. Maxwell, All These Things Shall Give Thee Experience, p.35) INTRODUCTION: A time comes when people are so committed to iniquity that they forfeit their right to occupy earthly real estate that might more profitably be used for people who present some hope of righteousness. Thus...