Solemn assemblies: What to know before conference

The federal government took my father from his parents and sent him to a boarding school where he was physically beaten if he spoke the Pawnee language or practiced his native culture. My sister was sent home from a public school because her skin was the wrong color. I heard a public schoolteacher describe Indians as “savage, bloodthirsty, heathen renegades.” Perhaps most painful, during my early childhood, my family had no expectation of achieving a higher education and becoming doctors, lawyers, or engineers. A college education seemed beyond our reach.

Call me crazy, but I believe we can be at peace with our physical bodies. That we really can feel comfortable in our own skin. I know I’m taking a huge leap by making that statement. After all, body image statistics reveal that most of us aren’t very thrilled with the way we look. It almost seems like hating your body (or at least various parts of it) goes hand in hand with being human.

We didn’t set out to study spiritual gifts when we began our research on the zookeeping profession several years ago. We are management professors interested in how people find meaning in their work. But our study of zookeepers provided some surprising—and inspiring—examples of spiritual gifts in action. The things we learned in our scholarship reverberated with spiritual truth and provided some powerful insights into how we can discover and enact our spiritual gifts.

"Always open the door." That's what Hector Rodriguez says at the end of video detailing his powerful encounter with an LDS missionary. An experience that almost didn't happen to begin with.

Wedding season is here. The weather is warming up and the invitations are increasing. And while this is a great time to excitedly anticipate starting a new family, it's also a crucial time for you to keep building a strong foundation for that family.

In 1830, the prophet Joseph Smith received a revelation illuminating how great and vast Heavenly Father's creations are throughout the universe. The revelation, which became Moses 1 in the Pearl of Great Price, describes a vision the Old Testament prophet Moses received. During this revelation, Joseph Smith witnessed what God had revealed to Moses in the vision.

Each day we are faced with new challenges and we must choose how to respond. Read what inspiration LDS leaders have shared to help us recognize what changes we can make in ourselves to be just a little better.

The Church released a statement on mormonnewsroom.org Tuesday regarding allegations that a former president of the Provo Missionary Training Center sexually assaulted a female missionary.

BYU students killed it at the ANDY Awards with their hilarious and slightly morbid "Pests Do Not Mess with the Orkin Man" ad, taking home first place in the student category.