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Best-Selling LDS Author Dean Hughes Releases His 101st Book

Agatha Christie wrote 69 novels in her lifetime. Stephen King has written 54 so far. But LDS author Dean Hughes has topped them both—two of history's most successful and prolific writers—with his new novel, Home and Away: a World War II Christmas Story, which will be his 101st published book.

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You're Far from Perfect—But Sometimes That's Where God Needs Us to Be

By Zack Oates

So you’ve set some goals to be better and, like every other year, at least a few will be dragged through the winter months before becoming fertilizer to the spring flowers of forgetfulness. And yet, goals are one of the things in life that we need to stay spiritually alive, whether we accomplish all of them or just a few.

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LDS Prophets & Apostles Share Memories, Give Tributes to Mothers

When LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson was a boy, going to Sunday School on Mother's Day meant handing each mother a small potted plant and listening as Melvin Watson, a blind member of the church, stood next to the piano and sang "That Wonderful Mother of Mine."

September 2012 Visiting Teaching Message: Special Needs and Service Rendered

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Do Photographs of the Prophet Joseph Smith Exist?

By Seth Adam Smith

For the past decade, several photographs have been circulating online, each one believed to be a photograph of Joseph Smith. Let’s take a look at some of them:

Lesson Helps

Gospel Principles Lesson 32: Tithes and Offerings

Supplement from "Like a Watered Garden” by Jeffrey R. Holland

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The Hebrew Translation That Deepened How I See the Atonement

By Danielle B. Wagner

My first time reading James E. Talmage's Jesus the Christ, there was one heart-wrenching truth that fixated my mind. Even as a young girl learning of Jesus Christ's crucifixion, I had a hard time believing or understanding hatred and fear that would compel people to nail anyone to a cross and watch as they slowly suffocated, let alone our Lord and Savior.

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Fun

11 words that mean something completely different for Latter-day Saints

By Lindsey Miller

There are so many common words that mean something completely different for Latter-day Saints. If you’re a member of the Church, you probably know these all too well, but if you’re new to the culture, you’ll want to keep this list of words handy so you’re not disappointed when you don’t get a delicious steak at the stake center.

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Preach My Gospel FHE: Lesson 6

By Jannalee Sandau

Chapter 9: How Do I Find People to Teach?

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A New Twist on a Familiar Scripture That Taught Me It's Okay to Question and Still Build a Testimony

By Kaeley Scruggs

My whole life, I’ve heard D&C 18:10-16 in relation to missionary work. “And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!” (D&C 18:16).