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After Waking in the Hospital & Learning Her Mom Died, LDS Teen Receives Sweet Prompting

What a beautiful story of how hope can provide us with healing that reaches beyond the physical.

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Help for Life Challenges

My husband’s cancer leaves then returns. How I find brighter light in deepening dark

By Maria Eckersley

“When I chose to let that light guide me, my darkness became navigable—even joyful at times.”

4-time cancer survivor Jennifer Reeder honors mortality in a breathtaking virtual address

Jennifer Reeder, 19th century women’s history specialist for the Church History Department and the author of First, has already had cancer four times. She has had two transplants and has spent months on oxygen. So, when she got shingles for the second time in January 2021, the diagnosis pushed her to the edge.

Dave Says: Stick with Term

By Dave Ramsey

Dear Dave,

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USA Today: In the Shadow of St. Peter’s, a Mormon Temple Rises

“This is something I love. I don’t see it as a sacrifice,” Michela Banchin told USA Today about her membership in the Church. “We have a different way of living our lives.”

5 Ways to Write a Family History Worth Reading

By Sunny Morton

Some people think they can’t write an interesting family history. “My ancestors were boring,” they say. There’s nothing to tell.” Others find too much drama in the past and find it painful or embarrassing to record. Still others haven’t taken interest in writing their family stories at all.

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Elder Bruce C. Hafen: Mentoring students with empathy

By Bruce C. Hafen

This is the third part of a four-part series from Elder Bruce C. Hafen about helping those who may be dealing with questions or doubts based on Faith Is Not Blind, the book he and his wife, Marie, co-authored.This series is adapted from an address Elder Hafen gave to religious educators.

Elder Quentin L. Cook talks recognition of the potential for new technologies to bless lives and aid in sharing the gospel

In 1935, speaking to a BYU assembly, President David O. McKay prophesied that we would "improve the means of communications until, with radio in our pockets, we may communicate with friends and loved ones from any point, at any given moment." In 1974, President Spencer W. Kimball said, “The Lord is anxious to put into our hands inventions of which we laymen have hardly had a glimpse.” This week in a podcast with Church News, Elder Quentin L. Cook said of new technologies, we now have to “learn how to use them and we’ve got to use them so they’ll bless people.” Elder Cook believes recognizing the potential uses of technology was just one blessing that has come out of a very difficult time over the last year.

From the Church

Official Church Statement: 'All are alike unto God'

Following is an official statement released by the Church on Feb. 29 titled, "The Church and Race: 'All Are Alike Unto God.' " The gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone. The Book of Mormon states, "black and white, bond and free, male and female; … all are alike unto God" (2 Nephi 26:33). This is the Church's official teaching.

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One Big Reason Young Mormons Are Afraid of Marriage (And How to Fix It)

By Jenny Spencer Hunt

As a young single adult in the Church, I’ve had a plethora of conversations with friends about why we’re afraid of dating, afraid of commitment, afraid of marriage—or all of the above. Our general Church leaders tell us that it’s the most exquisite and important thing we’ll ever experience in life. And yet, many of us put off the search to find a spouse.