We know from the scriptures that there were people who did not "taste of death" or who were "taken up by the spirit." But what does it really mean to be translated?

When asked, “Who was Jane Manning?” in an interview onNPR's the City Lights, Danielle Deadwyler, who plays Jane in a groundbreaking film about Jane's life, confidently and proudly said, “Jane Manning was a woman of fierce conviction.”

Behunin began working with pottery as a freshman at Highland High. That experience began a 24-year-long dance with the clay that has taken Ben to exotic places, such as North Carolina, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Italy, Austria and Hawaii in pursuit of his education and his passion. For the past 17 years, Ben has been making his living exclusively as a slinger of slime and a maker of mudpies. In 2009, after nearly 12 years of being a closet-writer, Ben published the first of his Niederbipp Trilogy, Remembering Isaac, the wise and joyful potter of Niederbipp. Later in 2009, came book two: Discovering Isaac. And the trilogy was completed with Becoming Isaac in 2010. Borrowing Fire was released December 2012. He is currently working on 47 other books that may be released sometime in the next 50 years if he can overcome his ADD. Ben is the father of two young budding potters, Isaac and Eve, ages 11 and 9. He and his wife Lynnette live in Salt Lake City, just inches away from his whimsically magical studio, Wild Rooster Artworks.

Call it a modern-day miracle. Thirteen years after signing the development deal, production of my best-selling novel Christmas Jars is finally coming to theaters on November 4th and coming to BYUtv throughout the holiday season.

For many Latter-day Saints, general conference is a time to sit back, relax, and listen to the speakers and the music. But for Elder Brook P. Hales, it’s something entirely different.

Michelle Amos didn’t aspire to a career at NASA. It wasn’t that she didn’t have big dreams; it’s just that her big dream was to work for IBM. But once she arrived on the campus of the Kennedy Space Center, she fell in love with its mission and never left—until she was called on a different kind of mission.

In 2014, the Church began a 25-year renovation project in Historic Nauvoo, and this week, the first phase of the project was recognized and awarded for bringing greater awareness to Illinois’ diverse history.

It's a cool summer night. A dark expanse of lake laps quietly at the edge of your campsite. You huddle in a sweatshirt and stretch your dirt-smeared calves toward the campfire's warmth. Firelight flickers across your loved ones' faces. Suddenly your soft conversation bursts into laughter, like a shower of sparks that dissipates into the starry sky above.

It all started with a hunting trip.

At first blush, it seems odd that Nephi, son of Lehi—a man born approximately 615 years BC—should have such a contemporary and continuing influence upon my life. But he has.