Why I’m so grateful someone pushed through awkwardness to serve

Editor’s note: The author of this article, Clairissa Cooper, is the Lewisville Texas Stake assistant communication director and shares a ward with the Bird family. She has a degree in journalism from Brigham Young University.

When recently retired United States Court of Appeals Judge Thomas B. Griffith heard the beginning of President Dallin H. Oaks’s talk, he was taken aback. Why would President Oaks choose, on Easter Sunday, to speak about the dividing parties of the United States?

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square have announced dates and venues for their rescheduled Heritage Tour. The tour was originally postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The choir will perform in seven cities across four Nordic countries and the United Kingdom, leaving Salt Lake City on June 16, 2022, and returning to the United States on July 7, 2022. The tour will include performances in the following cities and venues:

Mount Liberty College offers a serious alternative to the political correctness and “diversity” madness infecting higher education, in Utah and elsewhere. The MLC curriculum is organized around a traditional Great Books education, building on the kind of education Thomas Jefferson received, as offered in the best charter, private, and home schools.

In basketball, there is a phrase used to describe the physical and psychological benefits that a player experiences when competing in his or her own arena: “the home-court advantage.”

BYU Vocal Point has got its groove on in a new medley composed of songs from the favorite Disney movie Tarzan. But the video doesn’t take place in a jungle—this time, Tarzan is in a museum.

Editor’s note: “This week from the pulpit” highlights recent messages by Church leaders.

As the father of six, grandfather of twenty-nine, and great-grandfather of more than sixty, Dallin H. Oaks loves the family. This has been one of the most frequent themes of his apostolic ministry. In his first year as an Apostle, he spoke at a fireside for parents on “parental leadership in the home.” “We cannot overstate the importance of parenthood and the family,” he said. “The basis of the government of God is the eternal family.” He affirmed “that the gospel plan originated in the council of an eternal family, it is implemented through our earthly families, and it has its destiny in our eternal families.”1 These principles were reflected in his family teachings, priorities, and practices.

An inspiring short film highlights a story Elder Jeffrey R. Holland once shared at a Brigham Young University devotional called “For Times of Trouble.”