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6 Christmas Music Videos from Latter-day Saints that Bring Holiday Cheer

With Christmas under two weeks away, Latter-day Saint musicians are bringing the Christmas spirit to YouTube. From houselights synced to carols to the opening of Light the World giving machines, these videos will get you in the mood for the upcoming holiday.

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12 Hilarious Mormon Social Media Posts Members Totally Get

By LDS Living

Are your friends off of social media this week? Did your FHE about the Holy Ghost not go quite as planned? You're not alone.

A young Mitt Romney’s other mission: romance

Before there was Romney the presidential candidate, there was Romney the romantic. In this week’s cover story, Jon Meacham looks at how Romney’s identity was shaped by his Mormon roots. To illustrate this formative time in the presidential candidate’s life, we turned to a surprising photo found in the archives that shows the rarely-seen personal side of the candidate.

Elder M. Russell Ballard to deliver BYU Education Week devotional Aug. 20

Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be this year’s Brigham Young University Campus Education Week devotional speaker Tuesday, Aug. 20, at 11:10 a.m. in the Marriott Center.

Poll: Americans want religious presidents, but are vague on details

Americans want their presidents to be religious, but many have trouble identifying the faiths of President Barack Obama and leading GOP contenders Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann, according to a poll released his week. A majority of Americans (56 percent) say it’s important for a candidate to have strong beliefs, even if those beliefs differ from their own, according to the poll conducted by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service.

Latter-day Saint Life

How Saints in Africa Prepared for the Priesthood Revelation Years Before It Happened

By E. Dale LeBaron

Editor’s note: This article was originally published to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the revelation declaring that all worthy males, regardless of race, may receive the priesthood. We are sharing it again to mark the 40th anniversary and to celebrate the continuing growth of the Church in Africa.

Podcasts

Your friend just watched ‘Murder among the Mormons’ and has questions; historian Richard Turley is here to help

Richard Turley was brought in to supervise the Church History Department in 1986. At the time, the Church was heavily involved in the investigation of a forger by the name of Mark Hofmann. Turley had graduated from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and his legal training proved to be effective in guiding the department through that period of the Church’s history.

FHE: Taking the Show on the Road

We had a great Family Home Evening last night. We try and have a great FHE every week, but a lot of them fall short of greatness. (And by “fall short of greatness,” I mean that some of them have the spiritual impact of a spork in the eye.) This week, however, was great, and it was my lovely EC’s idea. I give her full credit.

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Take a look inside Liberty Jail with this incredible virtual 3D model

By Haley Lundberg

Looking for a more interactive way to teach your family about this week’s Come, Follow Me chapters but live nowhere near Missouri?

Melissa Inouye: Why Loving One Another Is More Than Bringing Casseroles

Identity, creating understanding, covenants, a worldwide Church, faith crises, change in the Church—these are topics Melissa Inouye, a scholar, addresses in an effort to explain how she has “found the fruits of this life (the life of a Latter-day Saint) to be worthwhile—costly, to be sure, but also rich and nourishing, a source of deep joy.”