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Looking for more Christ-centered Easter traditions? Here are 10 products to help you get started

LDS Living - Searching for candy and eggs left behind by a magical rabbit, is a fun tradition enjoyed by many families. But many of us are also looking for ways to keep Christ at the focus of our family's Easter celebrations. Here are 10 of our favorite resources to help you do just that. Considering the Cross   By John Hilton III Through scriptures, quotes, and stories, Considering the Cross shows that prophets, both ancient and modern, have taught that the Savior's Crucifixion is a central part of our redemption from sin. What the cross means for Christians in general and Latter-day Saints,...

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The ‘Lamb of God’ composer calls Peter and Judas ‘interesting foils’ of each other. Here’s why

LDS Living - We weren’t there in the Garden of Gethsemane and we weren’t there by the Garden Tomb when the Savior rose again. We also weren’t present when the Father and the Son appeared to the boy Joseph Smith or when key characters from Church history met each other for the first time. We have studied these stories and heard them countless times, so it may be easy for us to feel like we know exactly what happened, why people reacted the way they did, or made the choices they did. But there is so much we don’t know.  As Casey Elliott said...

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Dwyane Wade’s stylist started reading the Book of Mormon to prove people wrong. Here’s how it ended up changing her life

Lindsey Williams - As Calyann Barnett started to read the Book of Mormon, she filled the back pages of her copy with evidence that it wasn’t true. This continued until one day when she felt a voice that would lead her to a life-changing decision. That voice told her: “You can either believe or you can continue to be a skeptic.” A new video from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shares Barnett’s story. Barnett works as a celebrity stylist for athletes. One day when attending a retreat with her client NBA All-Star Dwyane Wade, she noticed a colleague who wasn’t drinking....

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What I didn’t know: An open letter to Emma Smith

Morgan Jones - Author’s Note: This letter is in large part the result of pondering  First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith , Jennifer Reeder’s new biography of Emma Smith. Sources mentioned in the letter are attached where appropriate, and I'm grateful to Reeder for guiding me to nearly all of the them. An additional thanks to this week’s  Don’t Miss This  video for introducing me to the text of the blessing Emma wrote for Joseph to sign prior to learning of his passing at Carthage. Dear Emma, I’ll be honest, I’m not sure how the connection between heaven and earth works, but...

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Learn about the Church's online resources aimed at helping individuals with disabilities

Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Quinn Price has been completely blind since the age of two. The Utah native and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said he feels empowered to participate fully in his faith because of the many online disability resources that the Church has provided on ChurchofJesusChrist.org and through the Gospel Library app. Price said he generally uses the Gospel Library app to find Church materials that have been published in electronic braille—a resource that has helped him feel like he can “more efficiently contribute as a member of the Church.” “Long before I was born it was possible...

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What Elder Uchtdorf taught about having a soul prepared for the unimaginable future

Lindsey Williams - Editor's note: Our bi-weekly Friday column, “ Found in the footnotes ,” explores some of the footnotes from remarks given by General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I'm fairly confident a few words have risen in popularity over the last year: unprecedented, uncertainty, and unpredictability. Perhaps that’s why I instantly gravitated toward a word in Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s talk. Like these other words, it also begins with an “un” prefix. The difference though is this word has an element of hope attached to it. The word? Unimaginable. Just look at some of...

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President Ballard speaks on the power of light in an ever-darkening world and other recent messages from Church leaders

LDS Living Staff - Editor’s note: “ This week from the Pulpit ” highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church. Light, hope, and being of good cheer were all topics addressed by Church leaders this week. From area devotionals with President M. Russell Ballard and Elder Jeffrey R. Holland to Church Educational System devotionals with Sister Cristina B. Franco and Elder Mark A. Bragg, here is a look at four Church News articles published about Church leaders’ remarks this week. President Ballard, Sister Eubank, Elder Nielson promise a future filled with hope and light By Sarah Jane Weaver,  Church News...

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President Nelson to receive honorary doctoral degree from the University of Utah

LDS Living - The University of Utah Board of Trustees announced their 2021 honorary degree recipients, and President Russell M. Nelson is on the list. “Our honorary degree recipients have exemplified courage, vision, and service in their professional careers and their personal lives,” Kim Brunisholz, chair of the Board of Trustees’ honors committee, said in the university’s announcement . “They have modeled excellence in character and lived up to the highest ideals of the University of Utah. We are delighted to show our appreciation with an honorary degree.” Alongside President Nelson’s name are recipients C. Hope Eccles, a longtime education advocate, and William J....

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The sweet way one of the Oaks daughters welcomed Sister Kristen Oaks into the family

Lindsey Williams - When Sister Kristen Oaks married then-Elder Dallin H. Oaks in June 2000, she wasn’t just marrying an Apostle—she was stepping into a brand-new family. On a recent episode of the Church News  podcast , Sister Kristen Oaks shares with Sister Sheri Dew how she adapted into her new role in the family. She says that President Oaks would include her in every activity, from baseball games to baby blessings. “I wanted to be part of it. Yet, I was still on the outside, a lot of the time. I think any second wife or divorcée, or single person can testify that...

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What a mother said that helped her 2 children while they were stranded on paddleboards during a storm

LDS Living - In this week's episode of This Is the Gospel , MeiLani and her family try to enjoy some time at the beach together while on a work trip. But when rain and snow periodically dampen their plans, they quickly realize that every moment of sunshine should be seized outside. During such a moment of fun in the sun, MeiLani gets a prompting to be near her two children who are paddle boarding in the water. As the weather quickly takes a turn for the worst, MeiLani is forced to watch helplessly as her children struggle to make it safely back to...

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Tips from 1 Latter-day Saint therapist about coping with infertility after she was unable to have children

Shelly Johnson-Choong, Contributor - Editor’s Note: Shelly Johnson-Choong is a social worker and therapist who specializes in helping women who experience infertility. She has also experienced infertility in her own life. In the following letter, she shares some of her personal experiences on this topic and gives insight on how to cope when unable to bear children. Dearest Sister, This is one of the hardest letters I’ve ever written. It taps into one of my deepest sorrows and most difficult life trials. If you, as a wife, have longed for children, I suspect your feelings are similar. In writing this letter, I hope to assist...

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‘He has descended below it all so that He can lift us above it all’: Watch the Truman Brothers’ 5-Minute Fireside

LDS Living - In LDS Living’s latest 5-minute Fireside , two musicians take the floor to share a message about the Savior in both word and song. Chad and Ben Truman, singer-songwriters known as the Truman Brothers, tell how difficult it was for their family when their aunt passed away from breast cancer, just two months before the birth of her first granddaughter, and amid a worldwide pandemic that prevented many traditional forms grieving. Chad says that experience and other trials in the past year, have brought a line from Doctrine and Covenants 122:7 to his mind often: If fierce winds become thine enemy;...

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Why Emma Smith didn’t let the destruction of her first hymn book stop her

Jennifer Reeder, excerpted from "First: The Life and Faith of Emma Smith" - Gathering, selecting, and editing hymns was not a typical project for women in the nineteenth century. That did not stop Emma, a visionary woman in her own sense of the word. 1 She had been promised in her 1830 revelation: “Thy time shall be given to writing, and to learning much.” 2 She probably gathered hymns from her hometown newspaper as well as other papers and denominational hymnals. 3 The process, like so many other endeavors in her life, would ebb and flow with loss and compensation, requiring more than five years to produce. Two years after the 1830 revelation, on...

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Have we lost our awareness of what it means to be a chosen people? Scholar Robert Millet weighs in

Robert L. Millet - In recent years, our beloved prophet, President Russell M. Nelson, has emphasized repeatedly the importance of the gathering of Israel and the role the Latter-day Saints are to play in this divinely-orchestrated effort. In President Nelson’s words, the gathering is “the greatest challenge, the greatest cause, and the greatest work on earth today.” 1 A “Covenant Consciousness” During my first few years as a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, I was asked to teach many courses in the Book of Mormon. In one of my large freshman Book of Mormon classes, I was startled by a question from...

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How we could benefit from pondering the cross, the significance of the house of Israel, and other topics explored in the latest LDS Living magazine

Emily Abel - We are thrilled that the stories and messages in the March/April LDS Living magazine are now available. As spring begins and we feel the joy of sunshine and warmer days, the voices in this issue remind us that hope and joy can be found in days of both sunshine and rain. Led to the Savior: How Sister Aburto found healing from both sides of the veil after tragedy LDS Living is honored to have Sister Reyna I. Aburto, Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency, on our cover. She lost her brother in an earthquake as a child, went through...

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Mission president passes away unexpectedly in the Philippines

Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Spokesman Sam Penrod released the following statement on Tuesday, March 9, 2021, about the death of a mission president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Philippines: We are saddened to announce that President Giovanni Pelin Pangan, serving in the Philippines Iloilo Mission, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, March 9, from what is believed to be a heart attack. President Pangan, age 48, had been serving as a mission president since July 2019 . He was from the Legazpi Philippines Stake, where he was serving as stake president at the time of his call. President Pangan is...

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3 unique resources to help you get the most out of general conference

LDS Living - General Conference is something we all look forward to twice a year. We know Church leaders spend so much time preparing to speak to us . But how are we preparing to listen to them? How can we be ready to receive counsel from our leaders and get the most out of the experience? And how do we make the experience last longer than conference weekend? Here are a few excellent resources to help you and your family get ready for general conference, make your conference study and note-taking easier, and help you reflect and revisit the talks in the weeks...

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Final Hill Cumorah Pageant canceled, 2019 performance will be broadcast

Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Due to the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Hill Cumorah Pageant, originally scheduled to have its final season in 2021, has been canceled and will not be held in future years. The Nauvoo Pageant will also not be held in 2021 but will continue in 2022. In place of these performances in 2021, the Church will broadcast the 2019 Hill Cumorah Pageant. This event will commemorate the contributions of tens of thousands of volunteer participants through the years. The broadcast can be viewed beginning on July 9, 2021, on broadcasts.ChurchofJesusChrist.org. The video will be dubbed in Spanish and Portuguese....

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Why do pandemics come and what is God’s role in them? Church historians discuss the topic

Matthew J. Grow and Matthew C. Godfrey, excerpted from “Know Brother Joseph” - Pandemics perplex. Long after the anxiety has receded, the suffering has subsided, and the dead have been buried, troubling questions remain. Epidemic disease often seems to strike indiscriminately, taking the young and the old, the healthy and the vulnerable, men and women, the righteous and the wicked. “Where is God in a pandemic?” asked a Jesuit priest in a New York Times editorial in late March 2020 as COVID-19 bore down upon the city. “The honest answer,” wrote Father James Martin, “is: We don’t know.” But he believed that Christians and non-Christians alike could find solace in the example of Jesus...

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President Oaks has a distinct general conference talk style. Here’s who may have influenced that

LDS Living Staff - In President Dallin H. Oaks’s new biography, readers explore 377 pages of the upbringing, the life, and the ministry of the First Counselor in the First Presidency. Deseret News   reporter Tad Walch recently published a Q&A with the author of In the Hands of the Lord , Richard E. Turley Jr., where the two discussed what Turley hopes people will learn from the biography, how much input President Oaks had in its creation, and some of the biography's contents, including how President Oaks developed his writing style for conference talks. One of the questions Walch asks Turley is, “One of...

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Watch: Gladys Knight performs stirring rendition of the US national anthem at NBA All-Star Game

Lindsey Williams - Each year, the NBA hosts an All-Star game featuring 24 of the star players—and this weekend’s NBA All-Star Game also featured a special theme: Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). So who better to sing the United States national anthem than Gladys Knight? The seven-time GRAMMY Award winner graduated from one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs, Shaw University. Seven-time GRAMMY Award winner @MsGladysKnight , who graduated from @ShawUniversity , one of the oldest HBCUs in the nation, performs the U.S. national anthem at NBA All-Star 2021. Watch the 2021 #NBAAllStar Game LIVE NOW on TNT pic.twitter.com/AzglMgbu3B — NBA (@NBA) March 8,...

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On International Women's Day, President Bingham addresses 'one of the greatest impediments' daughters of God face

Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Sister Jean B. Bingham, the Church’s Relief Society general president, was the keynote speaker at the fifth annual International Women-in-Diplomacy Day symposium. The event originated from Los Angeles and was held virtually this year because of the pandemic. The event was sponsored by the honorary consul of the Republic of Senegal. “As one woman to another, I rejoice in our shared vision of helping to improve the lives of women no matter where we live,” Sister Bingham told the international business leaders and diplomats who attended the event. Sister Bingham is the general president of the Church’s Relief Society organization, which...

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Save big on Latter-day Home decor for spring

LDS Living - Give your home decor a refresh and save 30% on select Latter-day home products, now for a limited time! Here are just a few of our favorites: Stripe Throw with Pom  Poms Enough is never enough when we’re talking about pom pom throws. The wide gray and white stripes on this one make it especially dreamy—and speaking of dreamy, this all-time-favorite cable-knit wins the perfect napping award! Buy Here Floral Canister Beautifully decorated canisters make storing your essential items more fun. Choose the style and pattern that fits best in your space. Buy Here Plant, Grow, Gather Pillow  Add some fun...

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Here’s how you can preorder your own general conference wide-margin journal edition

LDS Living - Throughout the years, Church leaders have repeatedly encouraged us to study the general conference messages. One way to preserve your impressions is with the General Conference Addresses Journal Edition ,   which will have all the text of the April 2021 general conference addresses in one spiral-bound paperback book. This awesome study resource will ship out after conference, and its extra-wide, lined margins provide space for you to record your impressions and document the insights you receive as you revisit the messages from general conference. At the end of the April 2018 general conference , President Russell M. Nelson, who had...