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Mormon marathoner organizes Saturday race in Vermont to complete goal
Four years ago, Susan Larsen set an ambitious goal to run a marathon in each of the 50 United States. She completed her 49th state when she crossed the finish line in Pennsylvania’s Danville Marathon in April. With only one state left to go, Larsen encountered an unexpected roadblock along her path — there were only Sunday marathons in Vermont.
Hiring Young at UW an opportunity to promote religious tolerance
ABC News ran an editorial, "Anti-LDS Slurs in Washington," about the recent selection of Michael Young as the new president of the University of Washington.
Mormon Duo Wins 'The Amazing Race'
Dave and Connor O'Leary's second attempt to win the reality TV show "The Amazing Race" began clear back in February. The Mormon father-son duo was particularly interesting because of the challenges they overcame to make it back.
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Latter-day Saint Life
The Black Pioneer Who Became a Seventy (+ Other Black Heroes in Church History)
Who are some of the black heroes from our Church's history? Here are just a few that helped shape the early days of the Church.
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When a Mormon Won the Triple Crown
By LDS Living
In honor of Justify and his jockey winning the Triple Crown Saturday, June 9, we thought it might be fun to rerun the story of Johnny Longden—a Mormon jockey who made headlines for winning the 1943 Triple Crown.
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"BuzzFeed" Features Mormons' Responses to the Church's Statement Condemning White Supremacism
By Jim Dalrymple II @ BuzzFeed
After the Church released a statement Tuesday that declared "members who promote or pursue a 'white culture' or white supremacy agenda are not in harmony with the teachings of the Church," many media sources have reported on the statement. Recently, BuzzFeed shared how this statement was celebrated among the majority of the LDS community.
The politics of race and religion — in two pie charts
Republicans are the party of white evangelicals. Democrats are the party of minorities and those without any traditional religious affiliation. Stereotypes? Absolutely. But, according to a study conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life of all of the organization’s polling so far in 2012, at least partially accurate — if not entirely illustrative of the full face of either party.
New York Times: Black Mormons and the politics of identity
When Marguerite Driessen, a professor here, entered Brigham Young University in the early 1980s, she was the first black person many Mormon students had ever met, and she spent a good bit of her college time debunking stereotypes about African-Americans. Then she converted to Mormonism herself, and went on to spend a good deal of her adult life correcting assumptions about Mormons.So the matchup in this year’s presidential election comes as a watershed moment for her, symbolizing the hard-won acceptance of racial and religious minorities.
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Want to Start a Discussion About 2 Nephi 5 But Aren't Sure Where to Start? Try These Resources
By Morgan Pearson
On the airplane home from my mission, I sat next to a young journalist. If you've seen the old Church video A Labor of Love, you can imagine exactly what our conversation was like. He asked me a bunch of questions about my experience as a missionary, I cried as I relived the previous 18 months, and then like any missionary hoping to cap off their mission's end, I gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon. A few weeks later, I got a Facebook message from this man who said he had been reading the book I gave him but was confused by 2 Nephi 5. I was embarrassed that even after having spent 18 months as a missionary, I had to do some research before I replied. But what if we actually prepared for conversations like this? What if we tackled questions like these in our homes and talked them out as a family?
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Latter-day Saint Life
How a civil rights activist became a member of the Church
By LDS Living Staff
Thomas had never come face to face with the violence and hatred racism breeds—until he walked onto the Missouri Valley College campus in 1967.