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Romney quotes Book of Mormon in speech

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney struck a somber tone in a speech Friday morning in addressing the fatal shooting at a movie theater in a Denver suburb – and he seemingly harked back to a passage from his faith's signature scripture, the Book of Mormon. “Today we feel not only a sense of grief, but perhaps also of helplessness,” Romney said. “But there is something we can do. We can offer comfort to someone near us who is suffering or heavy-laden. And we can mourn with those who mourn in Colorado.”

Mormon missionaries to tap online tools

The LDS church is moving further into the digital age, unveiling plans to do less door-to-door missionary “tracting” and more social media networking to find potential converts. Mormon apostle L. Tom Perry announced last week (June 23) that the Utah-based missionary force — more than 70,000 strong — will tap online tools to help them connect with and teach people interested in joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Poll: Mormons least likely to be smokers than other religious adherents

New polling data from Gallup revealed that Mormons are less likely to be smokers than adherents of any other faith. “A number of religions have formal or informal constraints on smoking, and presumably those who are most adherent to those religions, as measured by church attendance, would be less likely to smoke,” Frank Newport and Igor Himelfarb wrote for Gallup.

Mormon Channel launches Tech Savvy

Mormon Channel, an online station of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, recently launched a new program about technology. Tech Savvy is a 30-minute program airing every other week. As the program’s name implies, Tech Savvy showcases popular technologies; it also teaches families how to integrate them in effective, wholesome ways. Elisa Scharton, the host of Tech Savvy, explains: “We want to talk about healthy ways to use technology and provide information on how people can use it for good. We want to empower both members of the Church and members of the larger community to feel confident sharing feelings about faith in a … way that would help start conversations.”

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Apostate Mormon Always Defended Book of Mormon

Baptized in 1831, Tennessee native William E. McLellin was ordained a member of this dispensation’s original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1835. He was only 29 years old at his ordination, but he was already an experienced missionary, schoolteacher and self-taught physician and among the most astute members of the small, humble Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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November 2015 Visiting Teaching Message: General Conference

By LDS Living

Prayerfully study General Conference material and seek to know what to share. How will the messages increase your faith in the Savior and bless those you watch over through visiting teaching? For more information, go to reliefsociety.lds.org.

Independent BYU banks on itself

The signs are all over the football office, a new mantra for a new BYU world: Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

Pope Francis Discourages Working on Sundays

If your job has you working on Sunday, the world leader of the Roman Catholic Church says maybe that's not a good thing.

ABC: Inside one of the holiest rooms in the Mormon temple

It’s a room few get to see, with high ceilings, comfortable furnishings and an ethereal brightness that’s meant to evoke images of heaven. Called the Celestial Room, it’s one of the most sacred rooms of a Mormon temple.

Why an Apostle Attended Mass Last Week

Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints attended the installation mass for Archbishop John C. Wester today in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The afternoon mass was held at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe.