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July 20, 2026 02:16 PM MDT
Here’s how five Latter-day Saints use their favorite recipes to build community.
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July 20, 2026 10:10 AM MDT
About 10 years ago, Carol Tingey prayed for a meaningful way to spend her time. The answer came clearly.
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July 17, 2026 01:57 PM MDT
A story from the life of President Dallin H. Oaks can show us how.
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July 17, 2026 10:24 AM MDT
The mural depicts Inez Knight and Jennie Brimhall, who served as the first full-time single sister missionaries in this dispensation.
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July 16, 2026 10:40 AM MDT
A prophet called this account “one of the finest stories in all of the scriptures.”
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July 16, 2026 10:15 AM MDT
Each square represents stories of eternal families and the temple.
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July 15, 2026 01:44 PM MDT
On the day of her husband’s funeral, President Susan H. Porter discovered that their home flooded.
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Approximately 88,500 full-time missionaries are serving worldwide, surpassing the previous record from 2014.
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July 14, 2026 02:17 PM MDT
Feel prepared to receive your endowment with a calm mind and an open heart.
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July 14, 2026 10:06 AM MDT
Above all, President Rosemary K. Chibota says she is excited to serve “God’s finest, the little children.”
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July 13, 2026 11:03 AM MDT
President Junior Banza was the first person baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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July 10, 2026 01:07 PM MDT
From meaningful books to gorgeous artwork, here are some of our favorite gifts for the newlyweds in your life.
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July 12, 2021 06:30 PM MDT
Since 1937, the outdoor summer production of The Hill Cumorah Pageant: America’s Witness for Christ has been held on the hillside next to the Hill Cumorah Visitors’ Center in Manchester, New York. But on Friday, July 9, 2021, the Hill Cumorah Pageant took its final curtain call—virtually.
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July 12, 2021 06:26 PM MDT
When Christine Chiang took a job with FamilySearch, she had no idea the family history journey that awaited her personally. After being raised in Taiwan to parents who were from mainland China, her parents, sister, and brother were the only relatives she knew personally. As for family history, she could only trace four generations of her family line. But after receiving a call from the police in China notifying her that her brother had died and that she was the only Chinese family member the police were able to locate, she felt inspired to discover her jiapu, the Chinese genealogy book of her clan.
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July 09, 2021 08:11 PM MDT
There has been much to celebrate this week for Latter-day Saints.
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July 09, 2021 08:05 PM MDT
A new four-part series from the Church News highlighting the essential role of councils in the Church gives a look inside meetings in the Church Administration Building like you have never seen them before. In the first part of the series, readers get a glimpse into the weekly First Presidency meeting attended by President Russell M. Nelson and his counselors, President Dallin H. Oaks and President Henry B. Eyring.
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FamilySearch has announced that RootsTech Connect 2022 will take place on March 3–5, 2022, as a fully virtual family history event. RootsTech Connect 2021 attracted more than 1 million visitors from over 240 countries, making this year’s gathering the largest in RootsTech history.
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July 09, 2021 01:30 PM MDT
The Tabernacle Choir organization is thrilled to announce the schedule for the return to Temple Square of daily organ recitals, weekly Choir and Bell ensemble rehearsals and Music & the Spoken Word broadcasts. For over 150 years the Salt Lake Tabernacle—and since 2000, the Conference Center—have been the Temple Square locations for live events for music lovers and visitors from around the world. In March 2020, the pandemic temporarily halted all events on Temple Square and around the world.
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July 08, 2021 07:54 PM MDT
The University of Virginia, founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, has a library rather than a chapel placed in its center—a radical idea at the time, as “universities were structured around the church,” the school’s website reads.
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July 08, 2021 04:30 PM MDT
Whether you're returning to the office and resuming your daily commute or planning a long road trip with your family, check out these great audiobooks available from Deseret Book—and listen to all of them for free when you start your 30-day trial of Deseret Bookshelf PLUS+.
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July 08, 2021 04:21 PM MDT
Seven years ago, Sam Merrill traded Utah State’s basketball court for the mission field. Upon returning from Nicaragua, he had a successful college basketball career that led to him getting drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks and playing in this year’s NBA Finals in his rookie year. Just last month, in the midst of play-offs, Merrill shared with his thousands of Instagram followers the positive impact his mission had on his life.
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