Why Andy Reid says conducting the Tabernacle Choir was one of the highlights of his life

"I don't consider it to be accidental. It was providential that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the NAACP would come together on common ground," pastor of San Fransisco's Third Baptist Church Reverend Amos Brown said in a Church video. "We need each other. We should not turn on each other during these difficult times."

Top leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in the unveiling of the Pioneer Children’s Memorial at This Is the Place Heritage Park on Saturday in Salt Lake City. The new landmark honors the lives of more than 650 known children who died during the 1,300-mile journey Latter-day Saints made in the mid-1800s from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Utah.

"As president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I pray that we may increasingly call each other dear friends. May we go forward doing our best to exemplify the two great commandments — to love God and love each of his children," President Nelson said at the NAACP's 110th national convention. "Arm in arm and shoulder to shoulder, may we strive to lift our brothers and sisters everywhere, in every way we can. This world will never be the same. My dear friends, I thank you."

Author's note: This article was originally published by the Deseret News in January 2015. It has been updated and republished here with permission.

Sister Sharon Eubank and NAACP Vice Chair Karen Boykin-Towns wrote the following op-ed piece for The Detroit News emphasizing the importance of collaboration and cooperation. President Russell M. Nelson will address the 110th annual national convention for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) July 21, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan.

For more resources, videos, and tools to help you speak to your children about pornography, visit the Church's website ChurchofJesusChrist.org/addressing-pornography.

While the following excerpt addresses understanding children and their motivations for pornography use, many of these principles apply to other loved ones. For more resources, videos, and tools for individuals, spouses, and families, visit the Church's website ChurchofJesusChrist.org/addressing-pornography.

Fifty years ago, Neil Armstrong unveiled a plaque inscribed: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." Then, Armstrong stepped from the Apollo 11 lunar module, Eagle, and spoke 11 immortalized words: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

On June 1, 1801, Brigham Young was born in Whittingham, Widdham County, Vermont. At the same time, approximately 900 miles southwest of Whittingham, four-year-old Elisha Hurd Groves was growing up on a farm in Madison, Kentucky. No one could guess at the time the succession of events that would bring these two men together as they fled their homes and journeyed halfway across the country.