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Obama admires Romney for taking Mormon faith ‘very seriously’
Policy differences aside, President Obama says he admires Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for his family life, personal discipline and outward practice of his Mormon faith. “He strikes me as somebody who is very disciplined. And I think that that is a quality that obviously contributed to his success as a private equity guy,” Obama said in an interview with TIME magazine ahead of the Democratic National Convention next week.
Google Data: Interest in Mormon faith hits record high
According to Google, interest in Mitt Romney's Mormon faith is higher now than it has ever been before. Searches for the GOP presidential candidate's religion have ebbed and flowed in the months leading up to the presidential election, with a single uptick during the Iowa Caucus. But in August, searches for the term "Romney Mormon" saw a significant spike, Google Insights for Search shows.
"On Faith" Blog: Mormons in the Mainstream
On the “On Faith” blog today, Michael Otterson comments on the study on Mormons released today by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: Over the years we’ve learned quite a bit from opinion polls about how Americans view Mormons. Clearly, there is a big knowledge gap about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, complicated by a lot of erroneous assumptions.
Pope Surprises Faithful with Unexpected Personal Phone Calls
To the delight of millions of Roman Catholics all over the world, Pope Francis is furthering his reputation as a “pope of the people” by placing unsolicited phone calls to several followers who wrote letters to him. CBS News reported Tuesday, “Known for his down-to-earth personality, Pope Francis has found a direct way of reaching out to the faithful. … Nicknamed ‘Cold Call Pope,’ the pontiff (has made) surprise phone calls to several people.
Lights, camera, faith: The Shawn Stevens story
Shawn Stevens’ life could be a full-length "Mormon Messages" movie. There are good examples, heart-warming conversions and intense trials of faith. There are good times, unexpected twists and gut-wrenching, tearful decisions. Myriad gospel principles are taught and marks are made in LDS Church history. And there are moments of quiet reflection, life lessons and the recognition of worthwhile blessings.
Lieberman: Embrace Romney's faith
Sen. Joe Lieberman has a stern warning: Leave Mitt Romney’s religion out of this. “I have been watching the recent controversy over Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith through two prisms,” the Connecticut senator said in an op-ed penned in The Washington Post. “One is the vision of the appropriate relationship between government and religion, as set out by America’s founders; the other is my own experience in 2000 as the first Jewish-American to be nominated for national office.”
Mormon rock star Brandon Flowers talks about LDS faith on tour
Although he said he does not want to come across as preachy, rock star Brandon Flowers is open to talking about his LDS faith. “I was raised in the church and there’s still a fire burning inside me, Flowers said in an interview with the Scottish Sun. “I definitely don’t ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I’m happy to talk about it.”
Fire focuses faith during LDS services in Idaho, Arizona
July's Fast Sunday was filled with expressions of faith and determination to press onward for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints whose lives have been impacted recently by fire. "Fast Sunday" is what Latter-day Saints call the first Sunday of each month. The term comes from the monthly LDS practice of abstaining from food and drink for two meals and donating to a special church fund for the care of the poor and needy the money that would have otherwise been spent on food. Fast Sunday is also the day when local LDS worship services are traditionally unplanned, with the time that is usually allotted for sermons left open for members of the congregation to stand and share extemporaneous expressions of faith.
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Small Steps in the Right Direction
There’s a quote going around the internet that goes something along the lines of “Never allow yourself to be defined by someone else’s opinion of you.” I really love the message behind this quote but in every version of this quote that I’ve seen, it’s always missing the most important part…the “including yourself” part.
The news says Latter-day Saints are suddenly hip--but the church is square
There’s little doubt that the LDS Church’s “I’m a Mormon” advertising campaign is making good headway when it has received attention from comedian Stephen Colbert. His funny but, alas, sacrilegious, mock advertisement of how Catholics show how cool they are created a wonderfully favorable dynamic for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I thought.