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Abraham Lincoln’s Efforts to Save Constitution Helped Restoration, Says LDS Historian

It's amazing to see how historical events helped shape the Restoration of the gospel.

BYU’s Batty named National Track Athlete of the Year

After steady performances all season long and winning an individual national championship, BYU junior Miles Batty has been named the National Men’s Track Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. “I never really would have thought I would win something like this,” Batty said. “Knowing I was voted this honor gives me a lot of confidence and added pressure to accomplish all my goals going forward.”

From the Church

Secretary for the First Presidency Brook Hales Called as General Authority Seventy

The following was released on Newsroom about our latest General Authority Seventy, Brook P. Hales, who was called on May 17, 2018:

Anti-Mormon mockery can actually lead to teaching moments

Two plays about Mormonism are scheduled to premiere shortly in the northeastern United States. According to advance publicity, one of them "chronicles the days leading up to Christmas, 1825, when Joseph Smith Jr. and his father, on the run from the law as confidence men and scammers, return in disgrace to the family farm in upstate New York to save their house from being repossessed. In the process of escaping the clutches of both their creditors and the investors they'd recently fleeced, they lay the foundations of Mormonism." It purports to be "based on historical accounts of Mormonism's early years." The other play, a musical, will likely be somewhat less reverent.

Latter-day Saint Life

How Many Jews Have Become Mormon & Why They See No Contradiction

Read these incredible conversion stories from Jews across America. Here's just one example: "When Mitch Cowitz, a native of Toronto, told his Jewish parents he was interested in converting to Mormonism, they were aghast, insisting he meet with rabbis and someone from an anti-cult group.

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The Mormon Who Started Sundance + Other Incredible LDS Ties to the Festival

Just up the canyon from BYU, Sundance and its famous film festival has many ties to the campus. But, did you know it was a Mormon who started the first film festival that would later become Sundance Film Festival?

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LDS Scholar Defends Book of Mormon as Ancient Record

Critics of the Book of Mormon often demand its advocates provide the strongest single piece of archaeological evidence — or that they name, say, the top three pieces of such evidence. That, in the judgment of those critics, should prove its historical authenticity to an unbiased observer.

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Australian National News Reporter Shadows Missionaries For a Day

In Australia alone more than 1,000 young men and women are spreading the word of God according to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They're seeking converts wherever they can find them... including the outback. Ginny Stein went along for the ride with two modern missionaries.

Opinion: Will Mormons Save the GOP from Xenophobia?

Two growing forces in conservative politics are on a collision course: xenophobic nationalism and Mormonism. The Tea Party movement, with its rejection of Chamber of Commerce-type Republican elites, rose-tinted view of America’s past, and belief in self-reliance and small government, has reinvigorated isolationist nationalism within the GOP. Though much of the movement’s rhetoric has lately focused on public spending, suspicion of all things foreign—be they immigrants, overseas military missions, or Obama’s family roots—is one of the Tea Party’s animating forces.

From the Church

Ground Broken for New Temple in South America

How exciting for the Church members in Colombia who will get a second temple, following the dedication of the Bogotá Colombia Temple in 1999. “[This] temple is an answer to the prayers of many who have gone to their knees and asked for a temple to be closer to their homes,” Elder Juan A. Uceda said.