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Jesus Was with My Daughter the Day She Died: A Message from the Family of a Sandy Hook Victim We Need Now More Than Ever

By LDS Living Staff

I have had the rare and achingly beautiful honor of getting to know Robbie and Alissa Parker, the parents of Emilie Parker, a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting that took the life of 20 elementary students and 6 school employees.

Latter-day Saint Life

3 remarkable women you won’t want to overlook in the Old Testament this year

By Jo Ann Skousen

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is also the God of Sarah, Rebekah, and Leah, and the wives of the patriarchs offer powerful examples of righteous living in difficult times.

Teachings of Howard W. Hunter Lesson 3: "Adversity–Part of God’s Plan for Our Eternal Progress"

By Kelly Merrill

Resistance to opposition creates our spiritual movement forward. Having to resist something forces us into a position of having to stand for something, to support something, to search for our true nature, to find where our loyalties truly lie. Without something to resist, without some sort of opposition in our lives, we would stagnate like a swamp. It is the fast-flowing, churning, and tumbling water that is purified, not the water that sits.

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Sistas in Zion: How 2 Black Latter-day Saint Women Are Breaking Stereotypes

By Kelsey Berteaux

"People expect Latter-day Saints to be a lot of things: white, rich, serious. They picture who they’ve seen in the media like Mitt Romney,” says Zandra Vranes, although then she adds, “But I’m black, broke, and funny, and I’m a Latter-day Saint too.” She and her longtime friend Tamu Smith are known as the Sistas in Zion: two soul sisters whose faith and humor unites them. Their shared mission? To provide “a relief from sobriety where hilarity never faileth.”

Latter-day Saint Life

How the Lord Brought One General Authority Thousands of Miles to Bless a Man Near Death

By John H. Groberg

The following is an excerpt from Elder John H. Groberg’s book Fire of Faith, which details his experiences as he served as a mission president and later as a general authority.

Podcasts

Your friend just watched ‘Murder among the Mormons’ and has questions; historian Richard Turley is here to help

Richard Turley was brought in to supervise the Church History Department in 1986. At the time, the Church was heavily involved in the investigation of a forger by the name of Mark Hofmann. Turley had graduated from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School and his legal training proved to be effective in guiding the department through that period of the Church’s history.

Lesson Helps

4 reasons to rejoice in Christ while waiting for a miracle

By Valerie Russell

Editor's note: “Resources to follow Him” curates study resources, teachings, and thoughts to deepen your study of this week's Come, Follow Me.

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Latter-day Saint Life

What Latter-day Saints should know about Lent, Holy Week, and other Christian holy days

By Jennifer C. Lane

Latter-day Saints do not necessarily need to adopt the practices of the Christian liturgical calendar, but we can be enriched as we learn from our Christian brothers and sisters.

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How a Survivalist Mormon Woman and a Gay Atheist Became Friends on Reality TV

By Phillip Price

Tamra Hyde, a woman who has been living a minimalist, nomadic life for the past year and a half and has participated in two survival-premised reality TV shows, is not your typical Mormon woman. But is there a typical Mormon woman? There are ideal Christlike attributes we all should strive for, but every woman is different and has a strong personal identity—something Hyde is trying to show by the way she lives her life.

Latter-day Saint Life

6 Ways to Create Unity in a Ward with High Turnover

By Jannalee Sandau

Ward families provide wonderful opportunities to worship, make friends, find support, and strengthen your testimony as ward members work, learn, grow, and live together. But speaking as a former long-term member of a young single adult ward and a current member of an apartment-heavy ward with newlyweds and senior missionary couples coming in and out on a regular basis, I know that feeling support and connection at church can be a little more difficult when your ward family is constantly changing. Here are a few tips I’ve gathered that might help both leaders and members create more unity in an ever-changing ward.