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Animals and the afterlife: Do all dogs go to heaven?

I remember the first time I went to put a dog down. Her name was Maggie. She was a beautiful, black Great Dane with a love for life and eating socks. But she was only 4 (barely middle-aged) when Wobbler syndrome necessitated we take her to the vet.

LDS Week in Review: 5 Must-Read Stories (July 12-18)

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Returned Missionary Tackles Momat Airport Reunion (+Video)

10 Uplifting Stories You Might Have Missed to Welcome You Back from Your Social Media Fast

By LDS Living

Welcome back! We hope your 10-day social media fast was enlightening and spiritually fulfilling as you followed the words of our prophet, President Nelson, and avoided negative influences in your life and took note of the positive ones.

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What J.R.R. Tolkien's Works Can Teach Us About the Book of Mormon: New Study Reveals

By Daniel Peterson

Skeptics have sometimes compared the Book of Mormon to the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, including his epic trilogy The Lord of the Rings. If, they reason, Tolkien could create an entire imaginary world, with a large and detailed geography and a complex history that involves multiple ethnic groups, wars, and intricate subplots, it’s surely not impossible to imagine that Joseph Smith might have done the same.

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“So This Is What It Was Like for Jesus?” One Mormon's Beautiful Conversion Story

By Gerald N. Lund

In a new convert meeting, I noticed an older man who came into the room accompanied by two missionaries. He caught my attention because he didn’t look like someone you would normally expect to see in a Church meeting. He was a short man in his mid-60s with a leathery face and tattoos up and down both arms. He wore casual clothes, gym shoes without stockings, and his hair was tied in a long ponytail that reached halfway down his back.

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What's Life Like at the MTC?

By Jenny Spencer Hunt

Photo courtesy of Steven Thrap

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What became of the oak coffins that carried Joseph and Hyrum Smith after they were martyred

By Trent Toone

Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2019.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Lesson 39: "The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn to Their Fathers"

By Ted L. Gibbons

President Heber J. Grant told a wonderful story about work for the dead:

How to Distinguish Doctrine from Policy + Why There Is More Than One Type of Church Doctrine

By Anthony Sweat

Have you ever heard something and wondered, “Is that Church doctrine?” For example, suppose you were in a Church class studying the passage where God teaches Moses there are “worlds without number . . . and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten” (Moses 1:33). Someone asks, “If Jesus created multiple worlds, did Jesus’s infinite Atonement redeem God’s children on other earths?” What would you say? Is that true? Is it a sanctioned Church teaching? How would you know?

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6 Hebrew words every Latter-day Saint should know

By Maddie Tolk

These powerful definitions can help shine a new light on the Old Testament.