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Every mission is unique, but as the Church expands, some missionaries are called to serve in ways that would have surprised their pioneer ancestors.

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5 Ways to Spiritually Charge Your Family for Back to School

School supplies? Check. Fall sports fundraiser? Done. School clothes? Purchased.

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LDS Mom with Brain Tumor Dies Hours After Giving Birth

“Her heart was there taking care of people who were in the same situation that she ultimately ended up in as well,” Scott Bostwick said. “There’s something to that.”

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How Mormonism Helped Me Find the Path to True Happiness

My name is Jenna, and I’m a recent convert to the LDS Church. I was baptized on July 12th, 2014, in Austin Texas, where I moved about two weeks before my baptism. I’m from Texas originally, but was living in Los Angeles, California for the past six years. At the time I thought I was moving there to become a filmmaker, but I now know that moving there was more of a prompting from our Heavenly Father, to meet the people that I needed to meet so that I might heal and become a whole person.

It will be business as usual for general conference in 'the Mormon Moment'

Michael Otterson, director of public affairs for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, says that something "transformational" happens in downtown Salt Lake City twice each year as general conference time approaches. "Temple Square becomes thronged with people of every nationality," Otterson wrote in his regular "On Faith" blog posting in the Washington Post this week. "Across the (downtown LDS Church headquarters) campus the flavor becomes decidedly cosmopolitan, from the cafeteria crowds to the tourists packing the (Main Street) Plaza, the nearby Family History Library or the adjacent Church Museum.

Mormon temples: An answer to a rabbi’s question

In his thoughtful letter to the editor of The Jewish Week, Rabbi Mordecai Schnaidman poses three serious questions about LDS beliefs. He asks them in the context of determining whether Mitt Romney’s faith should render him unsuitable for the presidency. This is not a political blog, and I have no interest in advocating Mitt’s candidacy here. However, I think the rabbi’s questions merit honest answers, and I’d like to offer some in the next two posts. In doing so, I recognize that clarity often trumps agreement in matters of theology.

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NBC "Today" Co-Host Hoda Kotb Says BYU Researchers Found the Best Way to Break Up

If you're wondering how to break it off, this might be the very best way.

SPONSORED: City Creek Living Is Where People Want to Be

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SALT LAKE CITY - A week ago, City Creek Center celebrated its first anniversary. A number of state and local officials commended the development’s positive impact on the long-term vitality of Salt Lake’s central business district.

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Watch: What the Man Who Carried Christ's Cross Can Teach Us About Easter

By LDS Living

For Holy Week, LDS Living is preparing for Easter in two simple ways: 1) by focusing on the events leading up to Easter on our Instagram account @brightly.beams and 2) by releasing a video a day focusing on the perspective of those who witnessed the life and resurrection of our Savior. Here is the second of our videos (watch the first here), featuring Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler of Don't Miss This as they explain what we can learn about Easter and our Savior from Simon, the mysterious character who carried the cross of Christ. Come back tomorrow to learn about Joseph and Nicodemus.

USA Today Features Video of Latter-day Saint Military Family's Joyful Reunion

By LDS Living

First, a brief primer on the so-called “Tap Out” tradition in the U.S. Air Force: At the conclusion of an airman’s graduation from basic training, he or she is ordered to stand at parade rest until a spouse or loved one makes physical contact — or, as they say, taps them out.