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10 Inspiring Books by Non-LDS Writers
The LDS book market is a publishing force to be reckoned with, with hundreds of new titles by LDS authors being published every year. Elder Orson F. Whitney said in 1888, “We will yet have Miltons and Shakespeares of our own. … In God’s name and by his help we will build up a literature whose top shall touch heaven. …”
New Mormon movie celebrates mountain man handcart hero
There could probably be a dozen movies made about the trials and misadventures of the handcart pioneers, early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who piled their belongings into boxy carts and walked to the Utah Territory in the late 1850s. So far, Utah filmmaker T.C. Christensen has made two of them. In 2011, Christensen dramatically revived the ever-waning Mormon movie scene with "17 Miracles," a pioneer historical drama boldly released in the heart of the summer blockbuster season that turned out to be something of a minor miracle itself, selling tickets at first-run theaters in Utah for months. Now he's ready to do it again.
LDS Billionaire's Success Started by Paying Tithing
Carlos Wizard Martins learned to work at an early age. His father drove a truck from town to town in Brazil selling goods and young Carlos would go with him during school breaks. Far from a vacation, Carlos would go into the stores, take orders and deliver the goods while his father sat in the truck listening to the radio.
LDS Bishop Building Bridges with Jewish Community
Over the past 25 years, Mark Paredes has worked as a national outreach director for the American Jewish Congress, a regional director for the Zionist Organization of America, an attaché at the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, and a State Department diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. He speaks fluent Hebrew, blogs for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, and has lectured in synagogues across America. But despite this résumé, Paredes isn’t Jewish. He’s a Mormon bishop.
Latter-day Saint Life
Real-Life Advice on How to Quit Pornography
If you look at porn, you’ve probably realized by now that beating yourself up about it doesn’t really help anything. Sometimes feeling ashamed just makes it worse.
Gallup Poll: Mormons most religious group in U.S.
Sixty-nine percent of American adults are very or moderately religious, based on self-reports of the importance of religion in their daily lives and attendance at religious services. Within that group, 40% are very religious, meaning that they attend religious services regularly and they say religion is important in their daily lives.These data are based on more than 320,000 interviews conducted by Gallup between Jan. 2 and Nov. 30 of this year. Similar data going back to 2008 form the basis of the new book God Is Alive and Well: The Future of Religion in America.
Latter-day Saint Life
3 Latter-day Tips for Fighting Loneliness
I’ve approached overcoming loneliness a couple of different ways.
Candidates' Mormonism allows them to take pro-science stand
“To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy." For Jon Huntsman Jr.'s fledgling presidential campaign, that was the Tweet heard 'round the world; the bold declaration that finally gave the oft-forgotten candidate a little traction in the 2012 race. But while commentators are gleefully showering Huntsman with congratulatory titles like “the GOP’s truth-teller,” the punditocracy has overlooked the fact that at least one other Republican presidential candidate has staked out similarly pro-science positions: Huntsman’s fellow Mormon, Mitt Romney.
Is Mormonism a cult?
To many Americans, Mormon theology seems an impenetrable stew of biblical literalism, weird relics and a supernaturalism so aggressive as to border on science fiction, stirred together by a parade of shady self-declared prophets, from the frontier polygamist Joseph Smith to the complacent, dark-suited elders who run the church today. "Plutocratic oligarchs," Harold Bloom labeled them: men (all men; women are barred from participation in the Mormon priesthood) either cynically manipulating the religion for personal gain or themselves taken in. Does this confection make the religion a cult, as commentators as wide on the spectrum as the evangelical Baptist Robert Jeffress and the acerbic atheist Christopher Hitchens have speculated?
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10 Easy Activities to Celebrate Preach My Gospel’s 10th Anniversary
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Preach My Gospel to missionaries. Since that time all members have been encouraged to read and study the missionary manual. In honor of the anniversary, I selected 10 of the best self-improvement activities for 10 years of Preach My Gospel.