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100 days after Haiti quake, LDS relief efforts persevere
Three months after Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake, the numbers seem overwhelming — a death toll climbing toward a projected 300,000 and a million or more Haitians homeless. Humanitarian relief efforts by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have resulted in equally considerable totals...
Family cheers for Family Home Evening heroes
Every family home evening it's the same thing. I'm trying to get things moving along into the lesson so that we can get past the activity so we can eat the treat. The kiddos, 8 and 6, will suddenly shout out "Cheers! Cheers! Cheers!" and start dancing around. No, they aren't asking to watch an...
First black priesthood holder recalls historic day
Joseph Freeman's friend wondered what was wrong. He noticed that Freeman was visibly concerned -- a mystery since the man who is usually smiling had just received historic news that would positively change his and many others' lives. Freeman -- who would become the first Mormon of black African...
Orson Scott Card: Callings help us learn skills
The seminary teacher started the math lesson. "Let's say your average age is 16. How much time have you already spent in church meetings? "Assuming your parents brought you almost every week of your life, and you've gone an average of three hours a week -- and assuming that activities and extras...
Quarterback was catalyst for fan's conversion
MR says: A fun to read conversion story. Jason Sheridan's conversion began something like this: With the 40th pick in the 2007 NFL Draft, the Miami Dolphins select John Beck, quarterback, Brigham Young University. Sheridan didn't join the LDS Church just because his favorite football team drafted a...
BYU teams have long history of observing Sabbath
The women's rugby club isn't the first BYU team to refuse to play in a national tournament game because it was scheduled on a Sunday. "Not playing on Sunday has been a part of the athletic program since its inception," said Glen Tuckett, BYU's athletic director from 1976 to 1996. "We haven't...
Should you plan to share your food storage?
Bishop Vaughn J. Featherstone, second counselor in the Presiding Bishopric In the general conference welfare meeting on Saturday morning, April 3, 1976, discussed this: "I should like to address a few remarks to those who ask, 'Do I share with my neighbors who have not followed the counsel? And...
Is it a sin to watch the game Sunday?
MR says: An interesting debate. Utah's "faithful" -- those devoted to both their religion and the state's premier pro sports team -- face a dilemma this Sunday: Will it be the Jazz or Jesus? Or can they do both? After all, game 4 of the Jazz-Nuggets playoff series isn't scheduled to tip off until...
What you don't see
What you don't see, when we all march into church on Sunday morning, is the chaos of the morning that happened just 10 minutes earlier. What you don't see, when you look at my four little boys in their suits, is that the 7-year-old is wearing Dad's socks because we couldn't find his. And they go...
The simple doctrine of being kind
MR says: This is great. Nothing gets those hands flying in Relief Society like a question about apostasy. Our instructor is a lovely woman but she couldn't control the poisonous labels flung toward the chalkboard. Prideful! Materialistic. Angry. Bitter. Dark. Adulterous. Unfaithful! I twisted anxiously in...
Bear attack taught victim to listen to Spirit's warnings
With a huge grizzly bear straddling his legs and a claw hooked into his face, Michael A. Dunn realized that if he was going to live, he needed help -- God's help. The Mormon father, husband and marathon runner prayed out loud: "Heavenly Father, there is a bear on my back. I'm dying. I want to...
Head of Church Public Affairs on Glenn Beck and caring for the poor
MR says: Very well-crafted response to the Glenn Beck/Jim Wallis "social justice" debate. Q:Fox News commentator Glenn Beck claims that faith-based calls for "social justice" are really ideological calls for "forced redistribution of wealth . . . under the guise of charity and/or justice," and that...
Utah State University reconditions first-edition Book of Mormon
The 12-to-15-hour operation was described as delicate surgery, carefully performed with precision on the deteriorating, 180-year-old tattered patient. Nearing two centuries after 5,000 copies of the first edition of the Book of Mormon were born at a New York printing office, Utah State University...
Mormon Foresaw Latter-day Wayward Children
Imagine yourself as the leader of a people who have been at war for decades trying to avoid extinction at the hands of an overwhelming foe. Then, in addition to your military duties, you are given the task of combing through 1,000 years of history to compile a record that will never be read by...
LDS Church battening down hatches
Think of the Salt Lake Temple as a designer bottle holding a one-of-a-kind fragrance. Think of the gardens and buildings of Temple Square as bubble wrap around that container. Think of the City Creek Center to the south, the Church Plaza to the east, the Conference Center to the north, and the...
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