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8 Things to Try When You're Bored at Church

With all the time you spend in school, perhaps going to church for three hours on Sunday may feel overwhelming some weeks. But there are ways to make it a great experience.

Latter-day Saint Life

MTC Missionaries Spend Thanksgiving Preparing 350,000 Meals

While spending Thanksgiving nearly 3,000 miles from his home in Oahu, Hawaii, Elder Kivalu Ramanlal knew his family misses him for a special reason.

From the Church

Church Backs Supreme Court Ruling on Prayer

Local religious and government leaders are divided in their reactions to a Supreme Court decision allowing sectarian prayers in government meetings.

The Connection Between Faith and Family

For all its progress and possibilities, our modern world has difficulty seeing beyond itself. Every age has to struggle against its blind spots. In ancient Rome, for example, the span of a person’s influence was reckoned at 100 years. Within that horizon individuals could remember two generations back and care for two generations forward. Then, as the custom went, that influence stopped, and a new century, with new people and new concerns, would reset itself.[2] But lasting societies need a broader vision.

NPR: Mormon missionaries balance politics, proselytizing

If campaigning for Republican presidential candidates in New Hampshire sounds like hard work, try going door to door on primary weekend for Jesus. That's what Elder Taylor Bayles is doing in Exeter, N.H. "Elder" is a religious title the Mormon Church gives this missionary even though he's just 20 years old. His canvassing partner is Elder Kyle Hodson, who's 21. The two blond, conservatively dressed young men acknowledge that they tend to attract attention when they go door to door. "Generally, walking around New Hampshire in a suit and tie with a name tag makes you in the spotlight," said Bayles.

Mormon card spices up Salt Lake City race

Every four years, the outcome of Salt Lake City’s west-side City Council race seems as predictable as a clock: plain-spoken incumbent Van Turner wins the District 2 seat over outspoken activist Michael Clara. This year, the dynamic is different. Kyle LaMalfa, a third, fresh-faced candidate, has guaranteed a Sept. 13 primary. And the normally well-mannered contest has taken an ugly twist — marred by an anonymous mailer that plays the Mormon card and injects partisanship into the officially nonpartisan race.

Mitt Romney and being Mormon

Time Magazine has a new feature-length story out about de facto presidential candidate Mitt Romney and how he hopes to run a different campaign for 2012 than he did in 2008. "Throughout the 2008 cycle, Romney often appeared to approach the business of politics too much like a business — outmaneuvering opponents with positioning and polish when it was human factors like empathy and approachability that made up voters' minds. … He was dogged in delivering the political prose but struggled with the poetry. When people left his events, some campaign veterans will now admit, too often he had not closed the deal."

Jews can learn a lot from Mormons, editor says

Whether or not Mitt Romney becomes president of the United States, the editor of The Jewish Week in New York says there is a lot Jews can learn from the Mormons. "For the most part, (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) takes a decidedly, and admirably low-key approach to negativity in the media and elsewhere, focusing on its mission," wrote Gary Rosenblatt, The Jewish Week editor and publisher. "And in that, and other ways, there is much the American Jewish establishment can learn from the Mormons."

From the Church

Church Releases iPad Version of November 2013 Ensign

The Church has released a digital version of the November 2013 conference issue of the Ensign magazine for iPad users. The issue is free as part of the LDS Ensign app from Apple’s App Store. To find and download the free app, use this direct link, or search for “LDS Ensign” and look for the blue icon shown below. Those who have previously downloaded the app will receive the most recent content.

LDS Man Shares Hope after Harrowing Battle with Depression

Craig Rydalch had entertained suicidal thoughts before, but never to the point of acting on them.