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First Presidency letter to Church leaders about preventing and responding to abuse

On Monday, the First Presidency released a letter to Church leaders about preventing and responding to abuse among members.

RootsTech 2012: Love is the power and lesson

The power and the lesson of family history work is love, Elder Paul E. Koelliker of the Seventy said at a devotional session of the RootsTech conference Feb. 4. An assistant executive director of the Family History Department, Elder Koelliker spoke to a gathering largely consisting of priesthood leaders, family history center directors and ward family history consultants in the Church.

Food Storage Recipe: Wheat Berry Salads

By Emergency Essentials

My favorite method, which just happens to be perfect when you don’t have electricity, cooking fuels, or time to spend over the stove (like in emergency situations), is to let the berries soak overnight in a thermos of hot water. Bring your water to a boil and add it to the thermos. But, if you don’t want to wait overnight, bring water to a boil, add grain, boil until the berries are soft. Depending on what type of grain you’re using, it could take 30 to 60 minutes to soften. You could also use your crockpot.

Latter-day Saint Life

Why the Church created a special African American congregation over 50 years ago

By Haley Lundberg

In October 1971, Elders Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson, and Boyd K. Packer, under the direction of the First Presidency, established an official congregation of Latter-day Saints unlike any other the Church had ever seen or has seen since.

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4 Crucial Things to Look For in a Book of Mormon Replica

By Richard Lloyd Dewey, author of the new biography "Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saints"

Being a stickler for historical accuracy, I have taken a particular fascination with the 1830 first edition Book of Mormon. My findings? The original 1830 edition was downright beautiful.

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Is food the Latter-day Saint vice?

By Jenny Spencer Hunt

My name’s Jenny. I’m a Latter-day Saint. And I’m a chocoholic.

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Watch: These 2 future college basketball players are bringing slam dunks to missionary work

By Lindsey Williams

Elder Isaac Johnson and Elder Trey Stewart both wear a black missionary name tag. Before their missions, they both sported American Fork High School basketball jerseys. After their two years of missionary service end, they’ll both don college basketball jerseys for University of Oregon and Brigham Young University respectively.

37: Climbing the Mountain

Stacy Taniguchi grew up as a Buddhist in Hawaii and joined the Church so that he could marry his girlfriend who was a Latter-day Saint. He confesses that his testimony and knowledge of the gospel was minimal before a harrowing climb on Denali, the highest peak in North America, forced him to put his new faith to the test.

How the Mormon missionary movement continues to grow and change

Vigor Komar lives in a tiny apartment on a hill above Rijeka, Croatia - his bed tucked in the corner of the living room. He watches a small TV near the window. On the screen, it’s 1952. A very young June Carter lifts her long skirt to her knees and does a funny dance that’s half tap, half do-si-do. She’s laughing as she dances. Komar has watched this moment a thousand times. He likes June Carter, but he replays this black-and-white clip from The Kate Smith Evening Hour for what comes next: Hank Williams.

When technology takes over, families can unplug and survive

They're everywhere. Gleaming screens, clamoring for our attention. Whether it's a hip-hugging BlackBerry, a hand-held gaming system or a personal laptop, technology is nearly inescapable.While connecting with friends and family, staying up on current events, doing business or just de-stressing are important, some technology junkies have reached a breaking point. Like mother Susan Maushart, who described her family's 6-month technological fast in a new book, "The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale."