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Returned Missionary Awarded as Top 10 College Athlete of the Year

Former Penn State wrestler Matt Brown won a national title last year. This year, he was honored with the NCAA's "Today's Top 10" Award, where only 10 outstanding athletes from the past year are recognized from colleges around the US.

Jabari Parker: Off the Court

When the best basketball player at Duke isn’t on the court, he likes to be in his dorm room, watching cartoons. He’s had the same best friend since grade school, and the biggest party they ever attended was a Bar Mitzvah. His mom would occasionally take him and his siblings to the thrift store, where they could learn the value of a dollar and develop a personal sense of style.

Preparing for Easter: Ideas for Celebrating

By Eric D. Huntsman

For both children and adults alike, Christmas is, and probably always will be, a much bigger and more attractive holiday than Easter. Further, the date of Easter makes it difficult to plan for and get excited about, while Christmas is fixed for western Christians on December 25. The date of Easter, dependent as it is upon a lunar calendar, moves around from year to year, often catching us by surprise. But in his Christmas message in 2000, President Gordon B. Hinckley made it clear that Easter really is the more important of the two holidays: “There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The baby Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.”

Overcoming the Label of Addict

Recently, I shared a series of posts here on my blog that focused on the Atonement. I wrote about sin, repentance and forgiveness. I used some youthful examples which were painful but helpful to get to the heart of the matter. I want my religion to help me feel better, spiritually speaking, and to give me hope for a better life in the next world. In other words, I want to feel forgiveness.

D&C Lesson 4: “Remember the New Covenant, even the Book of Mormon"

By Ted L. Gibbons

JS—H 1:27-65; D&C 3,5,10,17; 20:5-15; 84:54-62

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April 2016 Home Teaching Lesson: "Prophecy and Personal Revelation"

By LDS Living

The true Church of Jesus Christ has been restored and is on the earth today. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always been led by living prophets and apostles, who receive constant guidance from heaven.

Elizabeth Smart is keynote speaker at Crimes Against Children Conference

Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped in 2002 and missing for nine months, was in Dallas on Monday to tell law enforcement workers about her "sojourn into hell" and urge investigators to never give up on finding a missing child. "We can never do enough when it comes to bringing a child home," said Smart, now 23. "Never doubt your efforts or give up on that child because that one child you save could have been me."

Jewish Writer Shares Why Everyone Should See 'Meet the Mormons'

[A] dispute [between two top political journalists] highlighted how difficult it has been for many Americans to come to grips with Mormonism and its practitioners. If even Jews like Klein—members of another minority faith historically maligned for its unusual beliefs and rituals—have trouble understanding and accepting Mormons, one can imagine how hard it has been for the rest of the country. It’s exactly this sort of discomfort that Meet the Mormons, a 78-minute documentary produced by the LDS Church that is currently playing across America, seeks to allay.

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LDS Charities Helps Refugees in Rwanda in a Fundamental Way

Imagine being forced from your home, leaving everything behind, fleeing your country with thousands of others only to live in a refugee camp. The 8,500 people living at the Mugombwa refugee camp in the Southern Province of Rwanda don't have to image what that would be like; it's already happened to them.

Birth of Christ Online Art Exhibit Available to All Members

Although the Church History Museum in downtown Salt Lake City has closed its doors for major renovations, patrons are still able to enjoy “in-house” works of art this holiday season. The beginning of December marked the launch of an online exhibit, titled “Birth of Christ,” that showcases artwork from the Church History Museum’s collection.