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These women are making family history more inclusive—and they might help you love your own lineage

As I listen to ‘Love Your Lineage,’ it feels as though someone has finally opened a bolted door and welcomed me into a space that I never knew I could inhabit.

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Feature Stories

Bright lights in the desert: How Latter-day Saints have shaped Las Vegas culture, community, and politics

By Fred E. Woods

“The Latter-day Saint community [in Las Vegas is] vibrant across every facet—politically, public service, charitable. … No other group of people [comes] close.”

From the Church

Elder Bednar: ‘Never again can we allow government officials to treat the exercise of religion as simply nonessential’

By Lindsey Williams

In an address given Wednesday, June 17, 2020, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said the COVID-19 crisis is a wake-up call for religious freedom.

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‘Not a coincidence’: How one Ethiopian couple found each other and the Church, becoming modern-day pioneers

By Emily Linder

How did Betty Zermariam of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, meet her husband in Japan, join the Church, and become a spiritual, cultural, and temporal ambassador for her country? Perhaps Betty offers the best explanation: “God’s hand is in it.”