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Did you know some of the Church's most-used pictures of Christ were painted by this talented Seventh-day Adventist?
If you’re like me, you love the first episode of every Survivor season, when people from completely different backgrounds are stuck on an island and forced to live together and work together until… well, every person gets voted off but the sole Survivor. It’s a brilliant concept that’s only gotten better with age. But the 26th season displayed a troubling undercurrent of religious hostility and double standards when the show’s contestants managed to demonize, humiliate, and mock a Mormon contestant beyond the show’s normal constraints.
The board of directors of the Boy Scouts of America will vote next week on a resolution that would effectively end its national policy prohibiting homosexuals from participating as Scouts or as Scout leaders. “A resolution will be put forth by the national board a week from Wednesday,” said Kay Godfrey, director of public relations for the BSA’s Great Salt Lake Council. “We won’t know until then how it will affect Scouting as we’ve known it.”
For more information on this topic read “Children,” by Elder Neil L. Andersen, Ensign, Nov 2011, 28.
Conference Talk:
Religion and government are like a couple who sometimes have a hard time living together but who find they simply cannot live apart. Religion and government both need their independence in order to flourish, but history has shown that a complete divorce is healthy for neither. They travel different but parallel tracks. They are most successful and most effective when they protect and encourage one another.
“What is changing—and what needs to change—is to help Church members respond sensitively and thoughtfully where they encounter same-sex attraction in their own families, among other Church members, or elsewhere." —Elder Dallin H. Oaks
The roughly 800-pound stolen statue of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young that went missing in Salt Lake earlier this week was found Tuesday evening.
I don’t know about you, but the last thing I want to be doing during an emergency is reading an instruction manual. All the gear in the world—and I know, there’s some pretty sweet gear out there—is not going to build that shelter or clean that water by itself. As crucial as stocking up on the right supplies is, we also need to be actively building a base of survival skills to call on in a crisis. We can’t all be Bear Grylls, but the following list and resources offers a good place to start.
The most important words spoken in the temple might not come as a surprise to many Latter-day Saints because they are those we hear most frequently within those sacred walls.