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6 podcasts to strengthen your faith and brighten your commute

Wading through thousands of podcast options can be overwhelming. That’s why we’re diving into six different LDS Living podcasts to help you find your next favorite listen!

Latter-day Saint Life

This true pioneer story reads like a proper romance novel—and it might inspire you too

By Sarah Griffin

“My fourth-great-grandparents’ love story is as good as any proper romance novel, but all the more special because it connects me to my ancestors in a deeply meaningful way.”

How Mormonism's approach to 'sister missionaries' has evolved

Some Mormons may think that lowering the age of the LDS Church’s female missionaries to 19 from 21 is no big deal. Andrea Radke-Moss, who teaches at Brigham Young University-Idaho, is not one of them. To Radke-Moss, who teaches history, the move is nothing short of revolutionary — especially given how far the Utah-based faith has come in its approach to "sister missionaries."

The Least and Most Expensive LDS Missions

How much do full-time missions in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints really cost?

Family-owned bookstore closes to welcome Deseret Book and LDS Distribution Center

After 15 years in the Magic Valley Mall — and 40 years serving the area’s LDS population — Crowley’s-The Quad bookstore is closing. “I call it moving,” store owner Richard Crowley said.

Mormons in America: The 'cosmopolitan and sophisticated' members

Whether or not Mitt Romney makes it to the White House, his candidacy signals that Mormons have arrived in American political life. Just as President Obama’s nomination and election marked a sea change in the country’s tortured racial history, so Romney’s nomination has changed religious boundaries that have persisted for more than 160 years. No religious group has been more persecuted by the U.S. government, or more derided by other faiths present in the country, than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or the LDS Church, as many Mormons refer to it).

Turf Wars, Talents and Spiritual Gifts

In the last 30 years, I have been a member of about a dozen different wards. With each move, I must establish new friendships and create a niche among my fellow saints. Church is a place for shared faith, but it is also a place where many perform a skill that may or may not be related to one’s professional training. If it’s a skill that a sister does not use at work, this often makes church a particularly important venue for expressing that skill.

President Uchtdorf and Others Discuss Mormonism's Global Reach

How The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is adjusting to meet the needs of an international membership was the theme this year of the annual Church History Symposium jointly organized by Brigham Young University and the LDS Church History Department.

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.

Lesson Helps

Book of Mormon Lesson 46: "And There Came Many Prophets"

By Ted L. Gibbons

Author’s Note: As has happened occasionally in the past, the focus of this lesson does not exactly correspond with the lesson manual provided by the Church. There is a message in the final chapters of the book of Ether that I have often missed in my reading. But it is a message worth noticing and contemplating—a message about what happens when people consistently refuse to follow the prophets. If you are teaching, the lesson manual must be your first choice. The considerations that follow should only be used for additional insight and personal enrichment. They are not designed to take the place of correlated materials.