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FHE: Pioneer Children Sang As They Walked
By Carly M. Springer
LDS.orgThis lesson help is based on the book, Pioneer Children Sang As They Walked by Jessica Warner.
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Latter-day Saint Life
When Your Friend Leaves the Church: 7 Ways to Cope and Comfort
By Rachelle J. Christensen
When one of my friends announced on social media that she no longer had a testimony of the Church, I was shocked and saddened. A few months later I met up with another good friend who told me that she and her entire family had left the Church. I felt profound grief, confusion, and loss for these friends, and I struggled to understand and reconcile my feelings. How would their choices affect the future of our friendship?
Patrick Q. Mason
Mason is an associate professor of religious studies and history at Utah State University, where he holds the Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture. A Utah native, Mason was trained in American history at Brigham Young University and the University of Notre Dame. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Romania, has served on the boards of the Mormon History Association and Dialogue Foundation, and is an advisor and contributor to Faith Matters. Mason currently lives with his wife Melissa and their four children in Logan, Utah.
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Robert Millet
Robert L. Millet is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Scripture at Brigham Young University. In 1983, following the receipt of his PhD in Religious Studies from Florida State University, he joined the BYU Religious Education faculty. He has served as Chair of the department of Ancient Scripture, Dean of Religious Education, and Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding. He is the author or editor of many books, articles, and book chapters, dealing mostly with the doctrine and history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its relationship to other faiths. He and his wife Shauna have six children and twelve grandchildren and reside in Orem, Utah.
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Latter-day Saint Life
7 Technological Tools to Help You Better Minister to Your Families
By Michelle Wilson
This story was originally published on LDS Living in November 2018.
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Latter-day Saint Life
Rescuers Ask for Prayers for LDS Boy Kidnapped from Church in Haiti As Search Narrows After 7 Years
By Jamie Armstrong
On December 6, 2009, two-year-old Gardy Mardy, whose father, Guesno, was serving as a counselor in the Haiti Port-au-Prince Mission presidency, was kidnapped from an LDS meetinghouse. Seven years later, the child rescue organization Operation Underground Railroad continues the search for Gardy, and according to the O.U.R. Facebook page, rescuers are closer than ever and are requesting your prayers.
Latter-day Saint Life
How My Perspective on Happiness Changed After My Fiancé Called Off Our Wedding Two Days Before
I’d been through breakups before, and they were all hard in their own ways, but none could have prepared me for having my wedding called off just days before. I knew it was the right thing because I wouldn’t have wanted to start my marriage off with doubt or fear, but everyone telling me it was “for the best” drove me crazy. They said, “Better now than in a few years down the road”, and, “You dodged a bullet.” When I disagreed with them they all gave me the most concerned, sad, and all-knowing look that seemed to say that I was naïve, needed time, and would look back in a few years having moved on and laugh. They all couldn’t wait to share their “similar” experiences. I know all of this was said and done out of love and with the best intentions, but all I felt was numb.
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Latter-day Saint Life
Non-Mormon, Former BYU Professor Writes "In Defense of BYU's Honor Code"
By Danielle B. Wagner
After a recent sexual assault case at Brigham Young University, there has been a lot of attention regarding some of the university's policies and how they might affect the victims of sexual assault. In response to this increased attention,Brigham Young Universtiy released a videowhere President Kevin J. Worthen explained the reason for the policies in place at BYU.
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Latter-day Saint Life
Elder Renlund Visits Prison on Easter, Shares Experience
One of our newest apostles, Elder Dale G. Renlund, recently posted onFacebookdetailing his experience of visiting with prison inmates on Easter Sunday. During the Sunday School hour, Elder Renlund was asked questions like: “Can I be forgiven for what I have done?” "Does the Atonement apply to me?" "How can I know if I have been forgiven by God?”
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"They Called It Hell, and We Called It Heaven": The Story of Exiled Saints in Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement
By Fred E. Woods
To most of us, leprosy is a disease that only existed in Biblical times and meant misery and exile. But to Latter-day Saints in a small Hawaiian leprosy settlement known as Kalaupapa, the disease meant a community of unity, coupled with a faith in God that neither they nor their neighbors would trade for anything.