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Lindsey Stirling, the accomplished LDS "dancing violinist" joined Young Women General President Bonnie L. Oscarson and Young Men General President David L. Beck to answer questions from youth around the world about her career, struggles with an eating disorder, and the role her faith plays in her music. Questions were submitted largely online and were moderated by Sister Oscarson and Brother Beck. Stirling performed a few songs and explained the background to one of her most recent favorites, "Shatter Me." Watch the complete Q&A event below.
Starting in 1953, artist Arnold Friberg spent three years in Hollywood as filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille's chief artist for the epic motion picture, "The Ten Commandments." Friberg would gain notoriety for 15 pre-visualization paintings which were used to promote the film worldwide. More than 50 years later, those scenes painted by Friberg are still known to those who traditionally watch the movie each Easter on network television.
Why is it that we can tell our children things like, “Don’t hit your brother,” or “If you touch the stove, it will burn you,” or “Say no to drugs!” five million times, but when it comes to sex and/or pornography–eeek!–we think we can have one talk, pat ourselves on the back, and go on our merry way? A colleague once asked me this, and I thought … you know, he’s right!
An independent documentary filmmaker may have unwittingly stumbled onto a solution for many of the challenges today's teens face worldwide.
According to Pew Research done in 2013, the average teen sends 3,339 texts a month and teens ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven hours a day using entertainment media, Mike Madsen, product manager of the youth.lds.org website, said at the LDSTech Conference on Oct. 17 at the Salt Lake Institute of Religion adjacent to the University of Utah campus. “The youth are plugged in,” he said. The way to reach them is with technology, and the Church has seven products that can help strengthen the youth:
The Western Force Super Rugby franchise have snared former budding NRL star Jordan Rapana on his return from a two-year Mormon mission in Britain.
With the announcement of two new temples, groundbreakings for two others and a number of interesting developments at still others, the establishment and reach of sacred temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to grow and expand around the world during the past six months.
I remember the first time someone in my family received the Priesthood. I was 14 and my younger brother was ordained a Deacon. About the same time two years later, when he became a Teacher, I began to take notice of a unique difference in the “feel” of our home environment. My father was Catholic and my Mother had been inactive for many years until we kids came along. There had definitely been a “void” I didn’t know existed. For years though, the “Priesthood” elicited an entanglement of ideas growing up while attending all the meetings in our LDS world and an occasional Catholic Mass.
There are 11,000 more female missionaries around the world now than there were a year ago. Women comprise 24 percent of all Mormon missionaries, up from 15 percent before the change.
Latter-day Saints in Carpinteria have been busy planting the seeds of missionary work in their backyard.