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What raw but powerful insights into why we suffer and how that shows us God loves us.

At last month's Women and the LDS Church conference, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's stimulating plenary address was a guided romp through the archives, sharing some of the best bits of the sources for her latest project on 19th-century Mormon women. Though her tone was upbeat and very funny, her theme was tragic: the appalling scarcity of surviving Mormon women's diaries. So scarce are women's diaries, which she carefully distinguishes from long-after-the-fact personal histories, that she has been forced to look further afield, to autograph books and handicrafts, for a window into that historical moment. Nevertheless, she emphasized the richness of the records that do exist, the power of their implicit witness and invitation. Ulrich is, on this point as on every other, indisputably correct.

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5 Important Things to Realize About a Crisis of Faith

In a religion that so constantly emphasizes “knowing”, being faced with the struggle of even believing can be heart-wrenching. We are told in Luke 22 that when we are converted, we should strengthen others. But sometimes we do a crappy job of that, due to misunderstandings and a lack of compassion. Here are things we need to all keep in mind when trying to help someone going through a faith crisis.

Mormons have irrational beliefs? Who doesn't?

Commentators on both the right and left and both secular and religious note with disdain that Mormons (Latter Day Saints, as Mormons refer to themselves) have irrational practices and beliefs. The former, we are told, includes the wearing of sacred undergarments and the latter includes posthumous baptisms and the claims by the prophet of Mormonism to have found and deciphered engraved golden plates in New York State. I read and hear these dismissals of Mormonism with some amusement -- because everyone who makes these charges holds beliefs and/or practices that outsiders consider just as irrational.

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What Single Members in the Church Wish Their Parents Knew

Here are a few dos and don'ts to be aware of when interacting with loved ones who are single members.

Variety of thinkers will present at Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology's annual meeting

From Sept. 20-22, the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology (SMPT) will hold its 2012 annual meeting in Logan. Founded at the close of a path-breaking conference on Mormonism held at Yale University's Divinity School in March 2003, SMPT has sponsored a series of annual meetings since that time that have featured many extraordinarily interesting thinkers — both Latter-day Saints and non-Latter-day Saints — on matters relating to Mormon doctrine and scripture.

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NCAA Football Team Cheers Up LDS Boy with Cancer in Sweetest of Ways

After learning his 11-year-old little brother had leukemia, one University of Idaho football player and his team have found the touching ways to bring a smile to the face of this little boy.

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President Uchtdorf Meets with German Ambassador, Both Talk Refugee Crisis

The German ambassador to the United States met with the second counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City this week, and the two men learned they have more in common than their native German language.

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Elder Stevenson, Ambassador of Japan Open Festival of Lights in Washington, D.C.

As the festive glow of Christmas lights illuminates Temple Square in Salt Lake City this holiday season, another kind of Christmas celebration began Nov. 29 at the Washington D.C. Temple and Visitors’ Center.

One-Armed LDS 15-Year-Old Plays Cello, Clarinet, +5 More Instruments

“How do you play the cello?” one might ask 15-year-old Michael Spencer of Provo, Utah.