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Poll: Americans want religious presidents, but are vague on details

Americans want their presidents to be religious, but many have trouble identifying the faiths of President Barack Obama and leading GOP contenders Mitt Romney and Rep. Michele Bachmann, according to a poll released his week. A majority of Americans (56 percent) say it’s important for a candidate to have strong beliefs, even if those beliefs differ from their own, according to the poll conducted by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service.

Time Out for Women Inspires to Stand Up, Speak Out

“I believe the challenge to oppose this evil is one from which members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as citizens, cannot shrink.” She said that we must catch a glimpse of who we really are and the power that we have.

'Anti-Mormon slime machine' kicks into gear

"Brace yourself for the anti-Mormon slime machine!" That's the warning from Kyle-Anne Shiver, a frequent contributor to the American Thinker blog, who speculates that "Mitt Romney's religious faith is likely to be mocked, sensationalized, disparaged and dragged through the media gutters" in the event of an election race between Romney and President Barack Obama.

Mormonism 101? Hatch plans book to explain his LDS religion

Orrin Hatch apparently is poised to pen a “tell-all” book — all, that is, about the Mormonism he knows and loves. Hatch — Utah's senior U.S. senator who faces a Republican primary rival next month and, if he prevails then, a Democratic foe in the fall in his bid for a seventh term — plans to take up the challenge of explaining his faith to outsiders in the new volume, An Insider's Guide to Mormon Beliefs.

Why Mormon 7–9 helps me remember to begin again with Christ

By Valerie Russell

Editor’s note: “Resources to follow Him” curates study resources, teachings, and thoughts to deepen your study of this week’s Come, Follow Me.

Latter-day Saint Life

How His Father's Imprisonment and a Heart Attack Led One LDS Cartoonist to Fame and His Faith

By Danielle B. Wagner

This is the second article in a two-part series about Ron Leishman: his conversion, his faith, and his career. For more about how Ron's family converted to the gospel,click here.

Fun

The Best of a Bizarre Mormon Hashtag, #ThugMormon

A radio host, Mike Welch, recently tweeted about BYU's football team, calling them a bunch of #ThugMormons. Since then, the phrase has taken over Twitter by storm.

Latter-day Saint Life

President Ballard to Women: "We Should Not Question Each Other’s Choices or Inspiration"

By Danielle B. Wagner

"Women have remarkable influence," President M. Russell Ballard recently posted on Instagram. "You sisters have been divinely endowed with a unique kind of discernment and strength that differs in some ways from the gifts our Heavenly Father gave His sons. These differences are intentional and eternal. They don’t make you better than a man, nor do they make you inferior to him. They just make you different—wonderfully, deliberately, everlastingly so."

Podcasts

NFL left tackle Garett Bolles talks about the importance of taking second chances

On this week’s episode of All In, Garett explains that God gives us all many chances, though it’s up to us to use our agency to accept them.

From the Church

Watch the groundbreaking ceremony for the Layton Utah Temple

By The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The breathtaking view of the snow-dusted Wasatch mountains to the east was a fitting backdrop to celebrate the beginning stages of a worship space that will stand as a witness to the eternal possibilities of the soul.