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Watch: What Do Mormons Really Believe? Mormon.org Answers in Under 2 Minutes

If you're Mormon, you've probably been asked once or twice what it is you really believe in. And while this can be a big question, the answer doesn't have to be.

New Bible Video: Follow Me, and I Will Make You Fishers of Men

6 Funny Moments in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s History

Music is serious business—and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s reputation as “America’s Choir” is a weighty responsibility. But every once in a while, the unexpected happens, and you can't help but smile about it. Here are some examples:

Latter-day Saint Life

Why Some Angels Are Resurrected and Others Are Not + How They Minister to Us

By Donald W. Parry

The LDS Bible Dictionary states: “These are messengers of the Lord, and are spoken of in the epistle to the Hebrews as ‘ministering spirits’ (Hebrews 1:14). We learn from latter-day revelation that there are two classes of heavenly beings who minister for the Lord: those who are spirits and those who have bodies of flesh and bone. Spirits are those beings who either have not yet obtained a body of flesh and bone (unembodied), or who have once had a mortal body and have died, and are awaiting the resurrection (disembodied). Ordinarily the word angel means those ministering persons who have a body of flesh and bone, being either resurrected from the dead (reembodied), or else translated, as were Enoch, Elijah, etc. (D&C 129)” (“Angels,” 608).

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10 Perfect Gifts to Make Seminary Graduation Special

By LDS Living

With seminary graduation just around the corner, these 10 gifts are the perfect way for seminary teachers, parents, and loved ones to prepare youth for their next adventure and help them celebrate the spiritual milestone they have reached.

From the Church

The Joseph Smith Papers: The First 10 Years

By Kurt Manwaring

The Joseph Smith Papers recently published its17th volume associated with the life and works of Joseph Smith. The project, which began with the work of a single individual, has grown in scope and influence over its first decade. Along the way, the project has changed in numerous ways, overcome challenges, garnered unprecedented popularity, secured academic prestige, and set the stage for a new era of Mormon history.

{Lifestyle} 25 Days of Christmas Memories: Week 3

By LDS Living

LDS Living has made this Christmas "bucket list" of 25 activities to do with friends and family this December that are a little different than the typical Christmas countdown to-dos. We've come up with 25 meaningful, memorable activities that will make this holiday season your favorite. (And remember, you can switch days around if it works better for your family.) Click on the links to get all the details for each day.

Mormons who use Medicaid

In a recently-publicized video, Mitt Romney criticizes people in the United States who rely on government programs such as Medicaid and argues that they don't "take personal responsibility and care for their lives." This group includes the elderly, the underemployed and a significant number of young Mormons like me. Last year the Salt Lake Tribune reported that "44 percent of births to parents who listed 'student' as their occupation" in Utah in 2008 were funded by Medicaid. About 39 percent of those births occurred in Utah County, home to a population that's about 80 percent Mormon and to LDS Church-owned Brigham Young University.

NPR: What does Mormon food culture say about Mitt Romney?

So far, we don't know much about Romney's tastes in food, aside from the occasional ice cream scooped from Bailey's Bubble in Wolfeboro, N.H., and his affection for feeding Jimmy John's subs to the press on the bus. However, parsing the eating habits of presidential candidates (to say nothing of sitting presidents) is now firmly embedded in America's cultural milieu. Just think: Ronald Reagan and jelly beans. Bill Clinton and fast food. President Obama and, well, most things chili-related, plus a bit of home-brewed beer.

Latter-day Saint Life

What Prophets and Apostles Have Said About Soul Mates

By Yvonne Liu

Do Latter-day saints believe in soul mates?