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Podcast: These Insights from an LDS Author Will Change Everything You Thought You Knew About Job

Award-winning author Michael Austin, a self-proclaimed writer of an “incoherent assortment of different topics,” is anything but incoherent in his expansion on the true message found in the Old Testament’s Book of Job.

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3 Reasons You Should Talk to Your Children About Controversial Church Topics

By Laura Harris Hales

Let’s be honest—we all have questions both big and small. Some we easily blurt out, but others take courage to ask. You know the ones I am talking about because you have them yourself. They are those that deal with one’s faith.

The Top 8 Can't-Miss Christmas Music Videos from This Year

If you're anything like me, your Facebook feed is probably brimming with Christmas music videos. And, that's one of the things I look forward to the most this wonderful season--the cheerful and uplifting music we get to listen to only this one time during the year. After all, as the popular movie Elf states, "the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

French Mormons find a less hospitable ‘Mormon moment’

Past clusters of houses and frozen fields in this Paris suburb, the Palace of Versailles sparkles in the evening sun. But Mayor Philippe Brillault has his eyes set on a different landmark: an abandoned, asbestos-choked power plant. It’s the spot where the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would like to build France’s first Mormon temple.

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Who Do I Choose—God or My Husband?

By Chelsea Homer

What a profound insight: "A simple yet powerful commandment [Jesus Christ] told His disciples, one that He repeated three times over, 'Love one another; as I have loved you' (John 13:34-35). I am so glad this commandment didn’t include disclaimers. Can you imagine, 'Love one another, except when someone does not believe or act as you do, then please disregard this commandment'? It sounds absurd when it’s in this context, but when life gets real and loved ones disagree on personal matters, this simple but powerful statement can get lost in translation."

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24 "Napoleon Dynamite" GIFs Every Latter-day Saint Can Relate To

By Danielle B. Wagner

It's been 15 years since Napoleon Dynamite hit the big screen on June 11, 2004. While the moon-boot wearing, tater-tot loving Napoleon became a national sensation, he has a special place in the hearts of many Latter-day Saints. As BYU Magazine relates, Napoleon Dynamite's production team was "made up almost entirely of BYU students and alumni." The movie was only made possible by an "angel investor" who put up $400,000 for the indie film that "sold to Fox Searchlight Studios for $4.75 million and grossed more than $46 million in the first year it was released. It remains one of the most profitable low-budget films of all time and a leader among Fox’s all-time bestselling home-video titles."

LDS 'Candy Bomber' Receives New Accolade, 66 Years Later

Most military veterans of the World War II era returned home to normal, quiet lives and spent the rest of their years without public acclaim. That certainly is not the case with a Utah veteran whose exploits three years after the war ended remain famous to this day, 66 years later.

Washington Post: In America’s Christian churches, okay to be gay?

With the launch of a new Web site by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, mormonsandgays.org, the church extended an olive branch to its gay members without changing its teaching that sex is reserved for marriage between a man and a woman.

200 Mormon youth reenact trek west

More than 200 teens from the Columbia and Savannah areas joined for a four-day journey across 26 miles from Savannah through the Sumter National Forest to Parson’s Mountain near Abbeville.

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Jimmer Fredette Shares Adorable Picture with His Daughter Just in Time for Father's Day

By LDS Living

Jimmer Fredette recently posted an adorable picture of him with his baby girl, Wesley, on social media, calling it "probably the greatest photo that I've ever been a part of."