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Methodist mom: How my son’s full-time mission changed my life

After a year’s separation, I spotted my handsome son striding across an ancient Italian piazza. I rushed to him and clutched his shoulders. Words I never planned to say tumbled out of my mouth.

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Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Lesson 35: "A Mission of Saving"

By Ted L. Gibbons

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4 Parenting Secrets That Will Improve Your Relationship with Your Kids

By Brent L Top and Bruce A. Chadwick

The following is excerpted from 10 Secrets Wise Parents Knowwritten by researchers and authors Brent L. Top and Bruce A. Chadwick and is based on a major, 10-year study they conducted with more than 5,000 LDS teens and an additional 1,000 young adults. Here are a few parenting principles they found that surfaced again and again in the happiest families.

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How a Latter-day Saint and a conference protester became unlikely friends

By Jenny Spencer Hunt

As Bryan Hall walked up to a group of general conference protesters one cold October morning, he never thought that he would one day become friends with the ringleader, Ruben Israel, a man he had come to hate—a man he had never even met.

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Latter-day Saint Therapist: 3 Ways to Thrive as a Single in a Family-Oriented Church

By Jonathan Decker, LMFT

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

How 1 Latter-day Saint Couple Who Tested Positive with Coronavirus Maintained a Positive Perspective during Quarantine

By Danielle Christensen

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Does faith dictate which politician gets elected?

Indiana’s NewsCenter spoke with local residents who shared whether they think faith and religious background matters when it comes voting for political candidates. It seems a lot of attention is being paid to Republican Presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney. Not only because he's the overall GOP front-runner, but also because of his religious background. Between Romney and ads on TV and billboards, the Mormon faith is a hot topic. But, does a politician's faith affect votes?

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The kind of assuming we can all do a little more

By Jannalee Sandau

I think most if not all of us have experienced a hit to our mental health over the past few months. It’s hard not to think negatively in a time when disasters are dropping one after another, we have been isolated from others, and we’ve been at home with our social media more often than we might otherwise be. It is also becoming easier and easier to distrust others as we read the news, inundated with stories highlighting the volatile flaws of human nature and generating fear of interacting with others during this highly contagious pandemic.

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6 Words the Savior Spoke to Me My First Time in the Temple

By LDS Living Staff

For the past few weeks, I've fretted, stressed, and talked myself out of writing this story several times. There are some things so personally spiritual that you don't want them subjected to the criticism, trolls, or trivialization of the online world.

Rob Gardner Announces Online-Only, Worldwide Sing-Along of “Lamb of God" on Easter Sunday

Listen to the "All In" podcast Easter episode with Rob Gardner here or in the player below.