Deseret News

September 03, 2025 09:26 AM MDT
“The whole vision of this book is that Christ is for everyone,” says Rose Datoc Dall.
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August 25, 2025 01:20 PM MDT
There is a catch to including some hymns and songs in the new hymnbook.
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August 04, 2025 02:05 PM MDT
The open house is scheduled to begin in April 2027.
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June 14, 2024 01:51 PM MDT
“Lloyd may not know everyone, but everyone knows Lloyd.” And after 34 years, Lloyd Newell will deliver his last broadcast for “Music & the Spoken Word” this Sunday.
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May 06, 2024 03:53 PM MDT
“My message is that being impacted by pornography is not an impossible situation. There’s hope, there’s help and there’s healing.”
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October 11, 2023 07:00 AM MDT
Faith was important to Jonathan Roumie before he was cast as Jesus in “The Chosen,” but he learned he would play the role just hours after a “desperate” prayer for help.
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August 28, 2023 06:00 AM MDT
A Fortune.com editor wrote of Davis Smith, “Of all the founders I’ve interviewed, not one had ever even brought up their faith, let alone cited religion as a factor in any kind of decision-making.”
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August 10, 2023 07:00 AM MDT
Watch a new scene from “The Chosen” season 4 and find out when the season will be available in theaters and for streaming.
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June 29, 2023 01:50 PM MDT
The number of missionaries representing The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has increased over the past year. Here are the inspiring numbers behind the shift.
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June 02, 2023 07:00 AM MDT
Latter-day Saint writer-historians Richard Turley and Barbara Jones Brown spent 14 years researching everything they could about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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April 20, 2023 07:25 AM MDT
The directors of the staggering seismic upgrade and renovation of the iconic Salt Lake Temple fully expected the unexpected when they started to excavate the pioneer landmark’s foundation.
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April 14, 2023 12:00 PM MDT
The 12-hour pour includes more than 150 ready-mix concrete trucks providing the new footings for the historic temple’s west tower.
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October 12, 2022 12:59 PM MDT
Joseph Smith and others once visited Salem, Massachusetts, and took interest in the Salem witch trials. Here’s what they had to say about it.
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September 14, 2022 10:58 AM MDT
Church leaders have joined with others to call for legal protection of the rights of LGBTQ individuals in Florida.
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September 02, 2022 02:56 PM MDT
“Let me be clear where BYU stands on this issue: racism is disgusting and unacceptable.”
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August 31, 2022 07:00 AM MDT
Cheese. Potatoes. Cornflakes. Or potato chips? It depends. Either way, when Latter-day Saints think about cheesy potato goodness, they are thinking about funeral potatoes.
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July 28, 2022 12:40 PM MDT
Lachlan Mackay was anticipating a variety of responses when he and his uncle, Daniel Larsen, released a new daguerreotype last week that they believe is Joseph Smith after keeping it a secret for two years.
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July 27, 2022 01:44 PM MDT
“I don’t think there’s a day that goes by that we don’t think about our experience in Baltimore.”
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June 08, 2022 03:47 PM MDT
“The idea that the Church, of all places, should be lectured to by our larger culture—by Hollywood—about its violence and misogyny defies everything in my life’s experience and that of many other women I know.”
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Fun
May 19, 2022 12:18 PM MDT
#ConventLife is hitting the mainstream with nuns’ innovative online videos.
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May 19, 2022 11:51 AM MDT
“Once I read ‘Dominican Republic,’ there was a strong feeling that this is where Heavenly Father wants me to be.”
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May 16, 2022 11:58 AM MDT
In 2021 the Church broadened the scope of its global humanitarian aid.
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May 16, 2022 11:58 AM MDT
“I believe that if the Lord were speaking to you directly tonight, the first thing he would make sure you understand is your true identity.”
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May 03, 2022 11:17 AM MDT
The Church is seeking to reflect the Church’s diverse global membership in the artwork that hangs inside temples.
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