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LDS Church's Provo MTC Will Expand South into BYU Campus

The expansion in the number of LDS missionaries over the past year will be met with an expansion of the church's flagship missionary training center in Provo. “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced plans to expand the Provo Missionary Training Center to the south of the existing MTC campus where the BYU Laundry Building and the Auxiliary Maintenance Building are currently located," church spokesman Cody Craynor said Wednesday night.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Honors Elder L. Tom Perry

Did you know Elder Perry was a member of the Marines? "Tom joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1944 and at the end of World War II was among the American forces that landed on Saipan," the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs shared.

Little-known Historic Solution to the 'Mormon Problem': Mormon Removal & Reserve

In every instance where Mormons faced growing animosity from outsiders and tension escalated between Mormons and their neighbors, accusations of a Mormon-Indian conspiracy were among the charges. The Mormon expulsions from Jackson County, Missouri, from Clay County, Missouri, and from the state of Missouri altogether, along with their exodus from Nauvoo, Illinois, and the later Utah War were all events notably marked by claims that Mormons were combining with Indians to wage war against white America. Outsiders did not always see war and conspiracy, however, when they conflated Mormons with Indians. Sometimes the conflation was in the search for a solution to the Mormon problem.

Geek chic and the Mormon Moment

Among the various figures and phenomena contributing to the so-called “Mormon moment”—Big Love, Mitt Romney, Glenn Beck, the Book of Mormon musical, Stephenie Meyer—one plausible factor has, so far as I can tell, not previously been noticed: the triumph of geek culture. That geekiness has, in some sense, triumphed, does not seem to be in dispute. The term “geek chic” became common in the 1990s; USA Today, not generally on the forefront of such things, used the term as a headline for a piece about how geeks have “pulled ahead of the rest of us” in 2003. In December 2010, Patton Oswalt published a much discussed piece in Wired (covering all things nerdy since 1993) arguing that geek culture had succeeded so totally as to become worthless.

Latter-day Saint Life

BYU-Idaho Says No to the "Man-Bun"

MR says: After learning the Honor Code Office has outlawed the "man bun" as an extreme hairstyle, men across BYU-Idaho's campus are mourning the loss of their locks even while some girls on campus are rejoicing.

Ron Howard to direct "Under the Banner of Heaven"

What will happen when the guy who directed “The Da Vinci Code” trains his sights on Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? Get ready to find out. Deadline.com reports that a deal is in the works with Warner Bros. that will have Ron Howard directing “Under the Banner of Heaven,” an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s 2003 book.

Dinosaurs in the Manti Temple

A few weeks ago, I worshipped in the Manti Utah Temple for the first time. My parents were endowed, married, and sealed there, so it is a special place to me. Amidst my devotions and pondering, I was somewhat taken aback to find paintings of Mesozoic reptiles on the wall of the Creation Room. [1] In 1886-87, Carl Christian Anton Christensen (usually CCA Christensen, 1831-1912) painted a 4.9-meter-high mural stretching completely around the Creation Room of the Manti Temple. The mural shows elements of creation up to, but not including, humans. The sequence is clouds and a sphere; volcanoes and storms; sunrise, mountains, and rivers; plants; earliest animals; fowls; non-domestic animals; domestic animals; and water creatures.

Q&A about Elijah Abel/Ables and the Politics of Race within Mormon History

Recently, two biographies were published on Elijah Abel/Ables, a black Mormon man who held the priesthood in the nineteenth century with the blessing of Joseph Smith and many of his contemporaries. Rather than attempt a traditional review, I decided to write a conversations post with Russell Stevenson, the author of one of the two biographies. Stevenson is an independent scholar with a master’s degree in history from the University of Kentucky. He recently self-published Black Mormon: The Story of Elijah Ables. In order to make the post easier to read, I have arranged the questions I asked and Stevenson’s responses into categories.

This Doctrine and Covenants verse was recently referenced by the Supreme Court

By Lindsey Williams

It’s a verse familiar to many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: “The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth” (D&C 93:36).

From the Church

The Church just released a Christmas album for 2021. Here’s how to listen

By Sydney Walker, Church News

The Church’s youth channel recently released a new album for Christmas 2021 titled “A Savior is Born.”