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How Church Members Are Helping Women in Prison Read Stories to Their Children

A decade ago, women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Brampton, Hamilton and Kitchener, Ontario, decided to help women in custody. Since then, the women from the Church have made recordings of incarcerated women reading to their children. Through this experience, the volunteers from the Church have grown to love the women whose voices they record each week.

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9 Christ-Centered Books to Help Your Kids Learn the True Meaning of Easter

By LDS Living

This Easter season is the perfect opportunity to sit down with your kids and read books that teach them about Christ's love and Atonement. These 9 books are perfect resources for helping children of all ages internalize the Savior's infinite gift of grace and redemption.

"I Saw Shots Coming Near Us": LDS Senator in Virginia Shooting Lauded as Hero, Receives Call from Obama

By Danielle B. Wagner

A Mormon and Arizona senator, Jeff Flake, was dubbed "one of the many heroes to emerge" by The Week after the shooting during a congressional baseball practice just outside of Washington, D.C.

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Elder Renlund Shares the Next Ordinance You Need That "Is Key to Our Faith in Jesus Christ"

By LDS Living

The sacrament is a sacred ordinance and a vital part of our worship as Latter-day Saints. Because of this, it's important to realize its gravity and importance in our lives.

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The Powerful Prompting the Mission President of Puerto Rico Received the Day Before Hurricane Maria Hit

For eight days, 155 missionaries huddled together in an LDS meetinghouse concerned only with survival after Hurricane Maria ripped through Puerto Rico. But all of the missionaries were together and prepared, thanks to the inspiration President David H. Smart and his wife, Sister Brenda Smart, received.

How One Wife’s Decision To Do the 12-Step Program Helped Aid Her Husband’s Recovery From Pornography Addiction

On this week’s episode of All In, Corrine Stokoe, the face behind the popular fashion deals blog Mint Arrow, recalled a conversation she had with her friend Mandi Gubler of popular DIY blog, Vintage Revivals and how that conversation served as a catalyst in she and her husband’s healing from pornography addiction.

Eric and Leslie Dyches: Losing Loved Ones to Mental Illness

Eric Dyches and Leslie Huntsman Dyches both lost spouses to battles with mental health. In the midst of postpartum anxiety and depression, Eric's wife Emily Cook Dyches ran in front of a semitruck. Leslie also lost her husband Chad after a 14-year battle with depression and anxiety. Now, the two have joined their families—including their collective eight children—and are honoring the memory of their late spouses by speaking out about mental health.

Danny Ainge: The Angels Who Make Us Who We Are

March Madness is in full swing and, in 1981, Danny Ainge experienced his "one shining moment” in the NCAA Tournament when he scored with two seconds left on the clock, helping BYU advance to the Elite Eight. It was the highlight of a remarkable college basketball career, but only the beginning of his professional career in sports. Still, Ainge doesn’t take credit for his success. He insists that the Lord has placed angels—ordinary people setting an extraordinary example—along his path to help him every step of the way. In this episode, we talk about the power of positive influences in our lives that guide our paths and why Ainge believes the people we surround ourselves with have the ability to make all the difference.

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Countdown to Conference: 4 weeks of ideas to help you make time for the Lord

We invite you to prepare for April general conference by following President Nelson’s counsel to “make time for [God] in your life—each and every day.”

UK Telegraph: How the 'Mormon city' is winning business from Wall Street

When the world’s biggest investment bank, Goldman Sachs, holds its annual shareholder jamboree this week, it will not be in the financial centres of New York or London, where most of its traders work. It will be in Salt Lake City, home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the largest Mormon population in the world. The Utah city, ringed by picturesque mountains, is 2,000 miles from Wall Street, but it feels even further than that. Bars shut early, coffee is frowned upon, families devote time to praying together, and stricter Mormons discourage mothers from paid work.