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After Hillary Clinton's recent article where she quoted LDS Church leader Sister Rosemary M. Wixom and made reference to many prophets, some have questioned her motives. But Clinton's admiration for Mormons spanned before the election. Here's a snippet of what the Deseret News found out.
MR says: What does it really mean to keep the Sabbath holy? Where do we draw the line? How do we keep everything in balance?
Manual 1; Excerpt from "Good, Better, Best," by Dallin H. Oaks
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On December 2, 2016,the First Presidency released their Christmas messageon lds.org, explaining the gifts that we can offer our Savior, Jesus Christ, at this time of year when we celebrate His birth:
Our family has been uprooted often, and we consider ourselves nearly nomadic. We have lived in some lovely homes both in the U.S. and abroad. We’ve also lived in a neighbor’s unfinished basement, in apartments too small for us, and in fixer-uppers tainted by buyer’s remorse. Actually, most of our living quarters have been rented. But that’s OK. ALL earthly dwellings are temporary.
What a beautiful quote from this piece: When doors of grief close our minds, the doors of heaven can open our hearts. President Howard W. Hunter explained, “Our detours and disappointments are the straight and narrow path to Him.”
Supplement from "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" by The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles
Thanks to the Deseret News for making us aware of this story.
LDS Church involvement in religious liberty issues extends to the earliest days of the history of the church, when Latter-day Saints experienced firsthand the harshness of religious persecution. Church founder Joseph Smith said in 1843 that "if it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a Mormon, I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination, who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves."