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

“Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance—you have to work at it.”

Laura Harris Hales of LDS Perspectives Podcast recently interviewed Jared Ludlow on Exploring the Apocrypha from a Latter-day Saint Perspective, a new book that introduces to a Latter-day Saint audience what the Apocrypha is and how it was treated in the early Church by Joseph Smith and others. It also gives a book-by-book overview of the contents of the Apocrypha and what a Latter-day Saint reader might glean from it. While the Apocrypha is mentioned in Doctrine and Covenants 91 when Joseph Smith asked whether he should translate it as part of his Bible translation project (the JST), it is usually not read by members because Joseph Smith received a “no” answer, and subsequently, it never became part of the scriptural canon.

What would lead a Jewish Senior Segment Producer on The Daily Show to want to make a documentary about a BYUtv sketch comedy show?

The higher education community in Utah was left grief-stricken after student-athlete Lauren McCluskey was shot and killed on Monday night. The tragedy has proved to be larger and more significant than any collegiate sports rivalry as students from Brigham Young University and Utah State are reportedly wearing red in memory of McCluskey, a talented track and field athlete.

It's no secret Latter-day Saints love Josh Groban. Last year, when LDS Living created a poll to see which celebrity Latter-day Saints would most want to see perform with the Tabernacle Choir on Temple Square, Josh Groban swept the competition,landing 14 percent above any other artist.

Marissa Barlow, a 19-year-old fashion designer from Logan, Utah, recently participated in the Emerging Designer Bootcamp leading up to Phoenix Fashion Week. All of Barlow's hard work paid off when she was named Phoenix Fashion Week's "Designer of the Year" on October 20, 2018.

What touching insights from Celeste Davis that were shared onlds.org. In the article, she discusses how she learned what one of her friends who left the Church needed most, and why we are often blind to that need.

Are you up for the General Conference Challenge?

While in Peru during his South American ministry tour, President Russell M. Nelson did something unexpected—he dismissed his interpreter to speak to Latter-day Saints in their own language. Watch their touching reactions and hear President Nelson's powerful witness as he bestows an apostolic blessing in Spanish.