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The Important Difference Between Questions and Doubts

Questions are a critical part of our eternal growth, and searching for answers in the Lord’s way can bring us closer to our Heavenly Father.

Split emerges among Mormon scholars

As the field of Mormon studies has expanded and moved into the academic mainstream, LDS scholars are divided about which path to take into the future: Explore a broader, more complex swath of history and belief, or remain focused on defending the faith’s unique scripture? Write as neutral analysts or as well-versed believers? A year after the two sides publicly parted company over the direction of the Mormon Studies Review, each group has launched its own writings, with separate boards of editors and mission statements.

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President Russell M. Nelson to Dedicate Rome Italy Temple

A history-making new temple in Rome has senior Latter-day Saint leaders making some extraordinary history of their own.

For Mitt Romney and other Mormons, missions are like a ‘refiner’s fire’

At age 19, Mitt Romney was a typical college student, schmoozing about politics, pulling pranks and sneaking away to see his girlfriend. Then he went on a 30-month Mormon mission in France. He returned to the U.S. in 1968 ready to start a family, steeped in his faith and eager for more responsibility in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Catholic football fan inspired by LDS Manti Te’o

An article in today’s CNN Belief Blog emboldened me. For those I am about to offend, I apologize. I hope you will only pass judgement on me, and not upon the other subjects of this article. Although I don’t know him personally, I hold Manti Te’o in the highest of regard. I feel compelled to share a bit on how I’ve come to this feeling, and what this amazing young Mormon man has taught me about my own beliefs during this Year of Faith.

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Video: Find Out What Happened After One Man Spent a Whole Year Taking the Bible Literally

MR says: Find out how living the Bible helped one agnostic man change his life and his views on faith.

We learned the wrong lesson from Martin Harris

In the course of studying Matthew, we came across the story of the woman who begged to have her daughter healed. Christ told her he couldn’t help her because she wasn’t part of his mission, but she wouldn’t take no for an answer. After proving her faith with a little verbal jousting, Christ gave her what she asked of him. Matthew 15: 27: Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.

Inside One Mormon Family: Raising Faithful Children

A couple of recent articles have Mormons thinking about best practices in teaching our children church history and doctrine, and in particular whether we should deliberately acquaint them with the most challenging issues in Mormon experience—issues like historical polygamy, for instance, that are largely absent from official church discourse. Like other observers, I would welcome a more open approach from the Church itself, and that may be coming. But in my experience there's a lot more to a successful inoculation than the institutional pedagogy children encounter at church. Everyday family life fosters or hinders a child's spiritual growth than any Sunday manual ever could.

New Mormon Papers Offer an Unvarnished Look at Joseph Smith

Critics will find no bombshells in the new 640-page book of early historic LDS documents, but scholars and the faithful will discover a much more complex Mormon founder than they ever knew. At least that’s the hope of the scores of church historians who worked on the book, titled "Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831," released on Wednesday at a news conference in the Church History Library in downtown Salt Lake City.

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BYU Volleyball Star Shares Faith, Wins Gold with Team USA at International Tournament

The dictionary folks at Merriam-Webster would be wise to include Mary Lake’s mug next to the word “globetrotter.”