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The lessons Eve and Adam learned in the garden before partaking of the fruit

The perceived distance between innocence and knowledge has everything to do with lack of experience, and life in the garden epitomized this

The new monument at This is the Place Heritage Park will feature sculptures of early Black pioneers Jane Manning James, Green Flake, and brothers Hark Wales and Oscar Smith. The statues were sculpted by Stephanie and Roger Hunt.

Feature Stories

He had never written a screenplay, but his movie led to the first monument honoring Black pioneers

By Haley Lundberg

Mauli Bonner came away from the 2018 “Be One” celebration a changed man with an intense desire to learn more about Black pioneers and to teach others about them.

Latter-day Saint Life

An Apostle’s counsel to missionaries questioning their worthiness

By Elder Neil L. Andersen

This excerpt originally ran on LDS Living in January 2020.

Podcasts

Latter-day Saint MLB mental skills coach shares 5 principles for developing a resilient mentality

Justin Su’a coaches major league baseball players on cultivating mental skills to utilize on the diamond, but on this week’s episode of All In, Su’a shares ways to strengthen your mentality, specifically as it relates to faith.

Help for Life Challenges

Take this first step if choosing joy feels beyond your reach

By Emily Linder

In moments when grief seems to take away our ability to choose joy, what could be our first faithful step forward?

Words of a Hymn Gave Me Rest in the Temple

It was no surprise that my latest trial found me at the feet of the Savior once again. After much contemplation I raised my eyes to His picture and these words came to mind: “There is hope smiling brightly before us, and we know that deliv'rance is nigh.”

41: “For the Perfecting of the Saints” (Ephesians)

Then-Elder Henry B. Eyring gave a landmark talk in 2002 called “Rise To Your Call” for “everyone, man or woman, girl or boy, who has been called or who will yet be”—so that means all of us. Elder Eyring wanted us to know four truths: 1. You are called of God. 2. The Lord will guide you by revelation. 3. Just as God called you and will guide you, He will magnify you. And lastly, all He asks is that you give your best effort and whole heart. Paul gives similar counsel to the Saints in Ephesus. In this week’s lesson, we get to take a closer look at callings and how we can best serve the Lord, even and especially when we feel inadequate.

Mosiah 18–24: Unity

Mosiah 18-24 covers many groups of people and their interactions with each other. Despite contentions, the goal of the righteous is always unity. Elder Cook taught this in the April 2024 General Conference when he said “Oneness with Christ and our Heavenly Father can be obtained through the Savior’s atonement.” So this week we will be studying how the atonement of Christ will help us knit our hearts together in unity and love.

D&C 51-57: Wise Steward

For Church members in the 1830s, gathering in Ohio and building the city of Zion were spiritual as well as temporal labors. In the revelations recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 51–57, the Lord appointed and instructed people to handle the tasks required for building a new place. He also taught the people about becoming a Zion people, which may have been more difficult than building, printing, or running a store.

Podcasts

A trip to Bethesda: BYU Museum of Art curator walks readers through an experience with Carl Bloch’s painting

For 20 years, Bloch’s masterpiece ‘Christ Healing the Sick at Bethesda’ has attracted visitors from around the world to BYU.