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Young Men Lesson 22: Duties of Priests

LDS Living - Discussion Questions: What are some ways the Aaronic Priesthood blesses the lives of others? What can you do now to further magnify your calling as a priesthood holder? How does your attitude about your priesthood service affect those you serve? Excerpt from "The Magnificent Aaronic Priesthood" by David L. Beck: Satan would have you think that you are too young or that there are too few of you to do significant things with the Aaronic Priesthood. None of that is true. God’s words to Moses are for you today: “Behold, thou art my son; … and I have a work for...

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FHE: Courage

Shauna Gibby - Conference Talk: For more information on this topic read “Courageous Parenting,” by Elder Larry R. Lawrence, Ensign , Nov 2010, 98. Thought: It takes courage to gather children from whatever they’re doing and kneel together as a family. It takes courage to turn off the television and the computer and to guide your family through the pages of the scriptures every day. It takes courage to turn down other invitations on Monday night so that you can reserve that evening for your family. It takes courage and willpower to avoid overscheduling so that your family can be home for dinner. (Elder...

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“The Case of Religious Freedom”

Newsroom - Earlier this month in Rome, Harvard professor Mary Ann Glendon made a bold case for religious freedom, saying it “goes to the very heart of what it means to be human.” Professor Glendon was speaking at an international conference titled “Universal Rights in a World of Diversity: The Case for Religious Freedom.” It is a “universal right” precisely because religious freedom is so central to being human and to sustaining free and just societies. Religion has provided for humankind hope, purpose, aspiration and compassion. Freedom of religion secures the inalienable human right to choose and live according to one’s deepest and...

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Volunteer army of over 3,500 to help produce church summer pageants

Newsroom - Life-changing experiences can come in unexpected places. When a friend encouraged R. Glenn McMinn and his wife to volunteer for the Nauvoo Pageant, the couple accepted, even though Glenn didn’t think they would have time. However, the McMinns enjoyed the experience so much that they volunteered the next year, and then they were asked to serve as full-time pageant administrators for 24 months. At the conclusion of that two-year period, Glenn was asked serve in the Nauvoo Pageant presidency with the friend (Nauvoo Pageant president John Ricks) who first invited him and his wife to serve. "[We wanted] to experience the...

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Video: Elizabeth Smart reacts to the sentencing

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Brian David Mitchell's life sentence is 'beginning of a very beautiful chapter,' Elizabeth Smart says

Deseret News - "Today is the ending of a very long chapter and the beginning of a very beautiful chapter for me," proclaimed a smiling Elizabeth Smart outside the Frank E. Moss federal courthouse Wednesday. Brian David Mitchell, the man convicted of kidnapping Smart at knifepoint from her bedroom nearly nine years ago, holding her hostage for nine months and subjecting her to horrific abuse, was sentenced to life in federal prison. Under the federal system, there is no parole. "I am so thrilled with the results that came out today, the life sentence. I couldn't be happier," Smart said. Mitchell, as he has...

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Group rides out Joplin tornado inside LDS church building

KSL - Three days after an F5 tornado swept parts of Joplin, Mo., to ruins, residents there remain in shock and disbelief. One group rode out Sunday's devastating tornado in a Latter-day Saint stake center. Amazingly, all eight walked out alive. Janice Falls and Lee Allphin are two of those survivors. "We were alive. Every single person in that room was alive, and that we were grateful for," Falls told KSL News Wednesday. ...

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Joseph Smith Papers website debuts

Deseret News - A new website aimed at making the entire content of the Joseph Smith Papers project accessible online free of charge in interactive form is being introduced this weekend. The new site, www.josephsmithpapers.org, will be formally unveiled at a Friday afternoon session of the Mormon History Association Conference in St. George, Utah, by Elder Marlin K. Jensen, LDS Church historian and recorder, and three of his associates in the Church History Department. Since last fall, it has had a quiet presence on the Internet as a beta site while developers cleaned up glitches and generally readied it for its public debut. ...

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Glenn Beck's new TV channel

Deseret News - News website TV Newser broke the story late Wednesday that Glenn Beck will launch a Web-based television service called GBTV that bears the tagline, "The Truth Lives Here." When Beck's company Mercury Radio Arts announced in March that it was hiring Joel Cheatwood, Beck's producer at Fox News, media pundits speculated that a new television platform was in the making for Team Beck. ...

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{A&E} Which Literature Characters Do You Think Are LDS?

Ashley Evanson - Yesterday LDS Living ran a story on popular baby names . I found it interesting (but not surprising) that the most popular ones are names of characters from Stephanie Meyer’s book Twilight . I wonder if people just like the names, or if they genuinely love the characters and want to name their children after werewolves and vampires? This got me thinking about the characters a little more deeply: Are they really people I could admire and name my kids after? Probably not, but I’ve decided Edward lives a pretty chaste life and isn’t a horrible example (in the books; I’m...