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Change lowers LDS Church growth rate

If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the LDS Church’s growth rate, you were right. That’s because, this time around, the Utah-based faith changed the way it reported its membership to the researchers. The once-a-decade study was assembled by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, which included self-reported data on adherents for 153 participating bodies.

Early deaf Saints is topic of church history lecture

Anne Leahy will present stories of early deaf Mormons in "God Made Me Deaf: Accounts from Deaf Latter-day Saints, 1836-1916," a Men and Women of Faith lecture hosted by the Church History Library on Thursday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in the Church Office Building main auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, and American Sign Language translation will be available.

Emeritus general authority H. David Burton honored with Freedom Award

PROVO — America’s Freedom Festival at Provo honored four Utahns on Tuesday for espousing the cause of freedom and supporting traditional American values. H. David Burton, an emeritus general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, received the Humanitarian Freedom Award.

LDS faith, Olympics to be big at GOP convention

Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith will be front-and-center [this] week, presented to millions of Americans watching as Romney accepts his party’s presidential nomination. Romney’s biography presented on the closing night of the convention will feature speakers who have worked with Romney in his role as a lay leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russ Schriefer, a strategist for the Romney campaign, said Friday.

Mormon Practice of Food Storage Becoming Popular with Others

After two wars, numerous natural disasters and an economic downturn, Americans suddenly have a voracious appetite for survival skills. They’re researching underground bunkers, buying freeze-dried food and watching television reality shows like "Doomsday Preppers."

Hundreds of Christmas nativities exhibited at historic Kirtland

The American Bus Association has named the Wise Men Still Seek Him Nativity Exhibit at Historic Kirtland, Ohio on its top 100 list of places to visit. Historic Kirtland is an important site in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members settled there from 1831 to 1838, built the Kirtland Temple and developed a thriving community.

NPR: At ballot, black Mormon couple weighs faith, race

With two African-American candidates and two Mormon candidates vying for the presidency, black Mormons find themselves at the political intersection of race and religion. Host Michel Martin speaks with two black members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Don Harwell and his wife, Jerri, who have different political viewpoints.

Heidi Swinton: Profiling a Prophet

As a young journalism student at the University of Utah, Heidi Swinton had big dreams of one day working for Newsweek, but a prompting encouraging her to focus on the work of the Lord led her to a different path in life instead. This path still involved Swinton using her talents through writing, but in ways she never could’ve imagined—including writing the biography of President Thomas S. Monson.

Kenneth Hartvigsen: Experiencing Art in an Intimate Way

Kenneth Hartvigsen has thought a lot about the power art possesses. He is a believer that it has the ability to help us unite, understand one another, and feel a greater connection to the Creator. On this week’s episode, Kenneth, an art curator at Brigham Young University, takes us inside his thought process surrounding art so we can “experience” one of Carl Bloch’s most famous paintings, “Christ Healing the Sick at the Pool of Bethesda.”

Language Loss and Diaspora Grief (with Dr. Joel Selway)

Here’s an interesting question: How many generations ago were your ancestors speaking a different language than you are now? When Dr. Joel Selway lost his mother when he was 12 years old, he also lost a tie to his Thai ancestry. But shortly before his mission he came across an old book about learning Thai, and something sparked inside of him. Little did he know then that he would embark on a decades-long journey to learn the Thai language and, in turn, discover more about his family history than he could have ever anticipated.