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Paul Cardall celebrates lives of brother and donor from atop Mount Olympus

Deseret News - Exactly one year from the minute Brian Cardall's heart stopped beating, his brother Paul's new heart allowed him stand on top of Mount Olympus Wednesday and thank God for both their lives. "We got to the peak at 1 p.m., and it was 1:10 p.m. a year ago when Brian was killed. We didn't even plan that, but we got there and realized it," said Paul Cardall, a local musician who took an emotional roller coaster ride along with his extended family last year. As Paul's monthslong wait for a heart transplant continued last June 9, his brother Brian was Tasered...

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BYU devotional: The privilege of personal prayer

LDS Church News - Looking to the example of Enos in the Book of Mormon, Marilyn Berrett of the BYU dance department spoke during the weekly devotional Tuesday, June 8, of the importance of accessing the peace and power of meaningful personal prayer. During her address, held in the de Jong Concert Hall on the Brigham Young University campus, Sister Berrett shared principles that help individual's develop the sacred communication that comes from regular and sincere prayer. "My testimony of prayer began as many of our greatest life lessons do with the example of a faithful parent, in my case my mother, who taught and...

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BYU-Utah rivalry in danger?

The Daily Universe - Since the start of their athletic programs and throughout the years of NCAA conference shuffling, BYU and Utah have always been in the same conference. They played against one another in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference until 1937, the Mountain States Conference, also known as the Skyline Conference or the Big Seven, until 1961, the Western Athletic Conference until 1999 and currently in the Mountain West Conference since its inaugural season in fall 1999. But the recent talk of the Pac-10 becoming the Pac-12 or Pac-16 and the Big Ten and the Big 12 possibly adding teams may have BYU and...

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Orson Scott Card: Is dating really the only way?

Deseret News - There are plenty of reasons why young men in a stake might not be asking out the young women. Please notice that I'm not capitalizing those terms; by "young" I mean "younger than me and not yet married." Familiarity breeds contempt? In some wards, the boys and girls have been together since spitwads were being thrown during Primary. It would be like dating your sister. Or so I've heard, but I don't think I believe it. Because I know an awful lot of married people who met at church. Including my wife and me. I think the secret is for a...

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The inspiring story of a young widow

Deseret News - Their story seemed flawless. They met while working at the Caine Dairy. He paid a co-worker to trade shifts with him, just so he could work with her. He went on a Mormon mission to Birmingham, England. Seven months after his return, they were married in the Logan Temple. They bought a house. She planned to be a stay-at-home mom someday. They were supposed to grow old and create memories — together. Then came the knock on the door. "Have you heard from Justin?" On Sept. 26, 2005, eight Utah State University agriculture students and their instructor were killed near Tremonton...

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Including other religions in baccalaureate proves difficult

Kingsburg Recorder - A Bahai, a Sikh and a Mormon student each said prayers this year at Kingsburg High's baccalaureate, a pre-graduation church service. Student organizers originally wanted the Bahai, Sikh and Mormon to talk about their faiths, but they changed those plans after some local ministers said that might cause tension in the community. Some of the ministers heard that people might try to disrupt a service that featured talks by the three students. No one disrupted the students from saying their prayers. Baccalaureate at Kingsburg High is traditionally a Christian service, and student organizers came away with mixed feelings about their efforts...

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My Army

Mormon Mommy Blogs - I sit here in front of an old, failing computer, trying to come up with witty sentence structures and complete paragraph topics that might actually catch the attention of the random “Mormon Mommy” who happens across my badly written article. All I can think about is the Styx song playing on my mp3 [Come Sail Away, by the way. Brilliant] and the new "Office" season [which is way too far away], and I realize that I’m not really sure I, a sixteen year old junior, could really write anything here of importance. I read over previous posts posted by actual Mormon...

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Passing the Bridge of Sighs

Segullah - Many years ago, when our marriage had that just-out-of-the-box shine, my husband (G) and I lived in England for a summer. We visited Cambridge and decided to try punting on the river Cam. (Punting, as you probably know, involves steering a long skinny boat with a long skinny pole while standing balanced in the back, like the gondoliers in Venice.) We were students living on love, air, and jacket potatoes so we opted to guide ourselves down the river rather than spend the extra money on a guide. G had no way of knowing the vision that was playing out inside...

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Scholars discuss 'Massacre At Mountain Meadows'

Deseret News - Not for the faint of heart, a May 28 session at the 2010 Mormon History Association Conference took up the topic of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Sarah Barringer Gordon, professor of constitutional law and history at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Jan Shipps, professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue, shared thoughts on both the event and the recent publication of "Massacre at Mountain Meadows," written by Ronald W. Walker, Richard E. Turley and Glen M. Leonard. Richard Bushman, visiting professor of Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University, responded to their comments. Gordon suggested that perhaps...

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Larry King's wife recovering from apparent OD

Associated Press - Provo - A spokesman for Larry King says the talk-show host's wife is recovering after an apparent prescription drug overdose last month in Utah. Emergency medical workers were called to Shawn King's home in Provo on May 28. Her father dialed 911 after finding the 50-year-old woman in her bed, breathing but not responding when he tried to wake her. He told dispatchers that he thought she may have taken too much medication for anxiety or depression. Larry and Shawn King filed for divorce in April, but Larry King released a statement Wednesday through his spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, saying their marriage...