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The One Thing That Prevents the Lord from Helping Us Change

This excerpt originally ran on LDS Living in July 2016.

How One LDS Woman's "Non-Traditional Journey" in the Church Led Her to Become a Chaplain

Lisa West has had what she calls a “very non-traditional journey” as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but this journey has led her to unique opportunities to connect to the community and build relationships with those of other faiths. As a convert, single mom, and active volunteer in her community, West now serves as a chaplain for the law enforcement of Sacramento County—the first LDS chaplain their unit has ever had.

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What a One-Year-Old's Tragic Accident Taught Me About My Own Spiritual Healing

By Michelle Wilson

When my friend's daughter burned her hands on a gas fireplace, her story of physical healing turned out to be a powerful parable about my own spiritual healing.

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Ask a Latter-day Saint Therapist: Is Birth Control Against the Commandments?

By Jonathan Decker, LMFT

For daily, gospel-based relationship insights join Jonathan’s Facebook group. To submit a question for Jonathan, click here.

The Unexpected Connection Between Zookeeping and Spiritual Gifts

By J. Stuart Bunderson and Jeffery A. Thompson, PhDs and authors of "The Zookeeper's Secret: Finding Your Calling in Life"

We didn’t set out to study spiritual gifts when we began our research on the zookeeping profession several years ago. We are management professors interested in how people find meaning in their work. But our study of zookeepers provided some surprising—and inspiring—examples of spiritual gifts in action. The things we learned in our scholarship reverberated with spiritual truth and provided some powerful insights into how we can discover and enact our spiritual gifts.

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"Cosmopolitan," "Independent" Call Baby's Transformation a Miracle, LDS Family Shares the True Miracles Behind It

By LDS Living Staff

"A medical marvel," that's what Cosmopolitan is calling Grace Parkinson, who is only 3 months old.

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

By Melinda Wheelwright Brown

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

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Feature Stories

Chinese roots to Silicon Valley branches: How this executive is sharing her faith and shaping the future of tech

By Danielle Christensen

Marguerite Gong Hancock is a techno-optimist in Silicon Valley whose family roots, faith, and passion for humanity inspire her to bring an abundant life to civilizations worldwide.

What Working for Chip and Joanna Gaines Has Taught Two Latter-day Saint Women

By Morgan Pearson

Located in downtown Waco, Texas, Magnolia Market at the Silos welcomed an estimated 1.6 million visitors in 2017, reportedly drawing more people to the state of Texas than the Alamo in San Antonio. Magnolia Market is really pretty simple: it consists of a home décor shop, a bakery, a garden and a grassy field surrounded by food trucks. So why do people come from all around the world just to see it?

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4 Things We Know About the Holy Ghost

By Robert L. Millet, "The Holy Spirit: His Identity, Mission, and Ministry"

What do we understand about the Personage we know as the Holy Ghost, the third member of the Godhead? Elder Bruce R. McConkie taught: “Prophets and saints in all dispensations have seen the Lord Jesus Christ in both the dreams of the night and the visions of the day, and also face to face as a man looketh upon and speaketh with his friends. Some have even been privileged to see the Father also. But with the Holy Ghost it is otherwise. His voice is heard; his influence is felt; his presence is manifest—but his person is kept hidden from view in all but rare instances.”1