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Margaret Young shares “Untold Stories of Black Mormons”

Margaret Young, a Brigham Young University English professor and one of the authors of “Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons,” gave a lecture Wednesday titled “Faith, Hope, Charity and Telling Our Stories: How we Unite in Our Communal Journey.” Her lecture included a handful of stories from the lives of Elijah Able, Jane Elizabeth Manning James, Eliza Partridge Lyman, Green Flake and others, all black members of the early Church.

NPR: Interview with LDS Olympian Tumua Anae

With the 2012 Summer Olympics in London just over the horizon, it occurred to us that for every Lebron James and Michael Phelps, there are less heralded athletes who will be wearing the red, white and blue who are equally dedicated and proud to represent their country. We wanted to meet some of them, so today, we are joined by Tumua Anae. She's a goalkeeper for the U.S. Women's Water Polo Team, and she joins us from Los Alamitos, California, where she's been training.

Globe looks at Mormonism as a business model

Referring to Mormons as "the original organization men," Boston Globe columnist James Carroll looks at LDS history and doctrine today on the Globe's website and concludes that "outsiders attempting to understand the surprising arrival of the Latter-day Saints can do worse than to think of it as a business model — made perfectly, it turns out, for the 21st century. Made in America. "The faith has found a way to make God and a genius for commerce work together," Carroll writes. "The reasons begin not in business but in theology."

Latter-day Saint Life

5 things you may not know will happen in the Millennium

By Alexandra Mortenson

Although there are many things we don’t know about the Millennium, there are several things we know as revealed through the scriptures and modern-day prophets.

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3 Ways Eve Is a Type of Christ (+ the Special Title Reserved Only for Eve and the Lord)

By Jay A. Parry, Donald W. Parry

A great number of righteous men and women from the Old Testament and Book of Mormon, including prophets, priests, kings, and others, served as types and shadows of Jesus Christ. Their personal purity and righteousness, as well as events in their lives, foreshadowed Jesus’ righteousness and his works. The parallels between these individuals and Christ are so striking that these persons “were types and shadows of our Lord’s coming; they were living, walking, breathing Messianic prophecies.”1 Elder Jeffrey R. Holland wrote: “Jehovah used an abundance of archetypes and symbols. Indeed, these have always been a conspicuous characteristic of the Lord’s instruction to his children. Examples of those figures—especially prefigurations of Christ—are present throughout the pre-Messianic record. . . .

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‘We all belong’—How the first Black woman called to serve a full-time mission inspires the next generation

By Kendra Bybee

“When I started nosing through old photo albums, I discovered my mom was the first Black woman to receive a mission call.”

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Lesson 9: "The Only True and Living Church"

By Ted L. Gibbons

Close behind the organization of the Church in the meridian of time came the apostasy, accompanied by a diversification of beliefs that would lead ultimately to thousands of different Christian denominations. Every doctrinal disagreement seemed to be a cause for reorganization: perhaps the only cause. In any religious organization where doctrine does not matter, or where there is unity of opinion about the doctrine, splinter groups are not likely to break off from the main body. But thousands had broken off and now, on the 6th of April of 1830, the time had finally come for the Lord to put things right and to restore “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth . . .” (D&C 1:30).

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New Testament Lesson 34: "Keep the Ordinances As I Delivered Them"

By Ted L. Gibbons

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Did a Solar Eclipse Darken the Skies During Jesus’s Crucifixion?

By Danielle B. Wagner

Recently, Religion News Serviceasked religious experts, including the director of the Vatican Observatory, about the long-debated theory that the darkness that descended over Jerusalem during the crucifixion of our Savior Jesus Christ was caused by a solar eclipse. It's a concept even Sir Isaac Newton entertained and pursued.

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5 Things Every Mormon Should Know About "Jesus the Christ"

By Jamie Armstrong

James E. Talmage wrote his groundbreaking book Jesus the Christ more than 100 years ago, and the powerful truths it contains continue to strengthen and inspire Latter-day Saints around the world. Here are a few things every Church member should know about this iconic work.