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{LDSL Blog} Top LDS Living Stories of 2012

The Church has made huge strides this year in reaching out to the LGBT community and opening up the discussion on homosexuality within the context of the gospel. This article was by far our biggest pot-stirrer of the year, but it is also one that helps spread understanding and compassion. Without proclaiming what is best for others, one man dealing with same-sex attraction, Ty Mansfield, shares his faith-affirming testimony of his experiences that led to his getting married in the temple and starting a family of his own.

Latter-day Saint Life

5 Ways Journaling Can Make Your Child More Successful

By Elizabeth Dorathy

There are many good things Mormons have been encouraged to participate in—from youth programs and service activities to food storage and firesides. One of the activities we’ve been counseled to do is to keep a journal. President Spencer W. Kimball said, “We urge every person in the Church to keep a diary or a journal from youth up, all through his [or her] life. Would every family...train their children from young childhood to keep a journal of the important activities of their lives, and certainly when they begin to leave home for schooling and missions?” (Spencer W. Kimball “The Foundations of Righteousness,” October 1977 general conference.)

Latter-day Saint Life

When Is Submission Good and When Is It Dangerous?

By Sherrae Phelps

Submission has a bad reputation. As Elder Jeffery R. Holland has said, “You can be certain that with some in this world, it is not fashionable nor flattering to speak of submitting—to anybody or anything . . . It sounds wrong on the face of it. It sounds feeble and wimpish.”

Latter-day Saint Life

How Losing My Hair to Cancer Changed How I Think About Happiness

By Merrilee Boyack

Life sometimes feels like being in a riptide, those powerful currents that run underneath the ocean. If you're in one and you try to swim directly to shore, the riptide will drag you back out to sea. As you continue to try to make forward progress, it will sap your strength. Many people have died trying to make it to the shore in a riptide. The key to surviving is to swim parallel to the beach until you find a safe area where there is no riptide.

SPONSORED: Affordable Adoption, from Fundraising to Financing

When Melissa and Robert watch their daughter Jacquie play “mommy” with her doll, they think back to how they became parents. They first looked into adoption in March of 2012, and did what most people do and turned to the familiar. “My beehive advisor from church worked in adoption so we started our adoption journey there.” said Melissa. “We did not do much research into all the other adoption options out there. As for costs, we just figured we would find a way to afford it.”

He's Amazing and Still Single - WHY?

By Alisa Snell

Every ward has one or two single men who are simply amazing, and yet, year after year, they remain single.

Famous Latter-day Saints

"Good Morning America" Features How Glenn Beck's Latter-day Saint Faith Saved His Life

By Danielle B. Wagner

Glenn Beck was a teenager when his mother died by suicide. Having experienced depression as a boy, Beck recalls the oppressive grief and the feeling of inevitability that he would follow in his mother's footsteps. "You get to a place to where you think, 'Well, that's just in our blood. That's the way it works in our family, and I am going to repeat her mistakes,'" Beck says in the Good Morning America podcast Journeys of Faith with Paula Faris.

Latter-day Saint Life

President Eyring’s Counsel That Became the Foundation for the New Children and Youth Program

By Lindsey Williams

Editor's note: Our bi-weekly Friday column, “Found in the Footnotes,” explores some of the footnotes from remarks given by General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Could ‘faith-promoting stories‘ be dangerous? Director of Church History Library says they might be

We’ve all heard them—stories that are widely circulated without a known origin that are frequently told over the pulpit. They are told and retold in hopes of building faith, but is it possible that these stories could be dangerous?

‘Where are the Brown angels, Dad?’ How a child’s question sparked the idea for this tender children’s book

By Lindsey Williams

At ages 4 and 7, siblings Ari and Geo Bonner notice who is depicted in the images around them. They are excited to see their favorite superheroes and princesses. They are proud to point out people they recognize in books and movies. And, sometimes, they are confused when they don’t see people who look like them.