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5 Pieces of Financial Advice for Mormons from Mitt Romney

8 Latter-day Saints who have run for president

Latter-day Saints have had a long history with presidential races. But did you know there have been eight Latter-day Saints who have made a bid to be the leader of their country?

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Stunning Music Video by LDS Pianist Jason Lyle Black Is More Than Just a Love Song

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Set in a beautiful garden, Jason Lyle Black's music video, "Sacred Romance," is a moving song that seems to reach deeper than a typical love song.

Lesson Helps

October 2015 Home Teaching Message: "Finish with Your Torch Still Lit"

By LDS Living

In ancient Greece, runners competed in a relay race called a lampadedromia.1 In the race, runners held a torch in their hand and passed it on to the next runner until the final member of the team crossed the finish line.

Famous Latter-day Saints

LDS Athlete Barely Misses Olympic Games After Controversial Track Race

By Jeff Hampton

Shaquille Walker has been a star since the second he stepped on campus at BYU. The middle distance runner came to college a two-time Georgia state champion in the 800 meter (half-mile) run, then proceeded to really excel—breaking school and national records and earning All-American Honors. Sadly for BYU fans, Walker recently announced he would forego his senior season and join a professional running team.

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Watch: Jason Lyle Black Performs Hilarious Blind Date Song That Is All Too Real for Mormons

By LDS Living

Nationally acclaimed pianist Jason Lyle Black has been featured on Ellen, Time, the Huffington Post, and other media outlets for his amazing talents and ability to play the piano backward.

Jennie Taylor: God, Family and Country

It was his love for God and country that originally made Jennie Taylor fall in love with her husband, Brent. It was also that love and loyalty that took him from her as Maj. Brent Taylor was killed in Afghanistan in 2018. On this episode, Jennie shares the faith that has helped her through the loss of her husband and has given her hope that she will see him again.

Margaret Young shares “Untold Stories of Black Mormons”

Margaret Young, a Brigham Young University English professor and one of the authors of “Nobody Knows: The Untold Story of Black Mormons,” gave a lecture Wednesday titled “Faith, Hope, Charity and Telling Our Stories: How we Unite in Our Communal Journey.” Her lecture included a handful of stories from the lives of Elijah Able, Jane Elizabeth Manning James, Eliza Partridge Lyman, Green Flake and others, all black members of the early Church.

25: Lesson Learned

“Going to high school as an adult is hard! Way harder than when you were a teenager!” When Lauri decided to get her diploma in her 40’s, she was unprepared for the way it would stretch her. But when she realized that going back to school was connected to her efforts to come back from excommunication, the difficulties and lessons she learned took on new meaning.

CNN: A rabbi, a Mormon and a black Christian mayor walk into a room...

Mayor Cory Booker waits in his wood-paneled city hall office for his next visitors. His life, even on a Sunday, is tightly scheduled. He checks the time on his cell phone and lets the ribbing of his two friends, who are now late, begin. “Jewish time is even worse than black time,” he says, “although I should never drag all the Jewish people down with Shmuley.” And then, about the other guy: “I thought Mormons were always 15 minutes early?”