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Why Did God Put a Veil Between Us and Him? One Powerful Explanation

Not only does the veil keep us from remembering our premortal past, it also keeps us from seeing many things that are going on at the present. God and His angels almost always stay in their hiding places—except on those exquisitely rare occasions when He does part that veil.

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2 Crucial Ways Elder Hales Said We Can Protect Ourselves (and Our Families) from the Adversary

By Elder Robert D. Hales

Because the battle for our souls is real, we must anticipate how the adversary will test us. None of us is immune to his clever, perfectly tailored temptations. The hero of Homer’s Iliad, Achilles, had a mother, Thetis, who dipped Achilles in the waters of the River Styx so that he became invulnerable. Thetis was successful, as the story goes, except for that part of her son’s heel by which she had held him. That was his Achilles’ heel. There he was unprotected.

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LDS Perfectionism: Research Reveals Pros & Cons

By Danielle B. Wagner

“You’re such a perfectionist!”

Recent convert and former Southern Baptist pastor offers advice for missionaries

As Bryan Ready tried to figure out how to leave a career as a Southern Baptist pastor, he wasn't moving toward baptism as quickly as the missionaries would’ve liked. So, they told Ready he had been "dropped"—and that hurt.

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You can now watch The Tabernacle Choir’s beautiful performance in the Philippines

By Haley Lundberg

For the first time in history, the Tabernacle Choir performed live in the Philippines—and the show was a hit.

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What Happened When a Jehovah's Witness Tried Converting Latter-day Saint Missionaries

By Lee Nobleman

The following is an excerpt from Converted. In the book, Lee Nobleman details his exposure to religion in his younger years—growing up Episcopalian, attending a private Catholic school, and learning from Jewish relatives—as well as how he became a Jehovah's Witness. Then he relates the following account:

LDS Academy Award Winner Talks Faith, Hollywood, and What Makes a Good Story

By LDS Living

Kieth Merrill has worked in the film industry since 1967. A writer, director, and producer, he won an Academy Award for his 1973 documentary The Great American Cowboy and created the LDS films Mr. Krueger’s Christmas, Legacy, and The Testaments. His debut novel, The Evolution of Thomas Hall, was released in 2011, and his newest novel, Saga of Kings, Book 1: The Immortal Crown, has just hit bookstores. We recently sat down with him to find out more about the man behind these incredible achievements.

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Discovering a Renewed Richness in the Gospel

By Adapted from "Power of Stillness: Mindful Living for Latter-day Saints" by Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Anderson, and Ty R. Mansfield

Compared with a once-soulful experience of prayer and scripture study, many of us know what it’s like to find spiritual practices becoming impoverished, superficial, and thin. Although it’s easy to conclude that prayer or scriptures themselves are somehow limited, it would be shortsighted not to also consider ways in which larger tendencies toward distractedness, stressful busyness, and an accelerating pace of life might be playing a role.

The LDS Church in Austria

By Jenny Spencer Hunt

The beginnings of the Church were not always so harmonious. In 1841, Elder Orson Hyde was on his way to dedicate Palestine to the preaching of the gospel when he stopped in Vienna. Although he felt prompted to preach the word among the people there, he was not commissioned to dedicate the land, and the country of Austria had to wait 25 more years for Orson Pratt and William W. Ritter to arrive and begin the missionary work there.

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Dr. David T. Morgan: ‘Mary, Did You Know?’ (and other important questions)

By Dr. David T. Morgan

Sometimes these ancient individuals, like Mary, can seem a little flat and unidimensional...but surely they were robust and complex, not unlike human beings today.