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LDS Family with 4 Disabled Children Inspired by Son's Football Experience

Before he forces himself to forget about everything but football, Nathan Honey summons the faces of his brothers.

In interreligious diplomacy, unresolved conflict is the goal

For a peacemaker like Randall Paul, a good ending doesn't necessarily resolve the conflict between religious believers over who is damned and who isn't. That's why Paul, founder and president of the Foundation for Religious Diplomacy, was intrigued by an obscure documentary about a filmmaker who set out to discover why conservative Christian evangelicals labeled his Mormon faith a cult whose followers were going to hell.

Adventures in Mormon art history

One aspect of an Arnold Friberg painting of Nephi, however, might smack of déjà vu for art historians more than for followers of contemporary politics: Nephi’s hand. Hand gestures can import a lot of figurative meaning in paintings, especially religious ones. When Christ holds up two fingers, as he often did while sitting for holy icons from the sixth century onward, he probably meant to convey his twin natures, human and divine. When John the Baptist points up with just one finger, it’s to let us know the double-natured Christ is coming. Nephi’s gesture—palm down with the fingers slightly spread—may reflect a more secular but no less cosmological subject.

No “Private Agendas” in Church's Public Affairs Department, Director Says

The Public Affairs Department of the Church does not have its own agenda independent from the leaders of the Church, despite assumptions to the contrary expressed by critics on the Internet, the managing director of the department declared August 7.

Volunteers in cleanup campaign earn a 'God bless'

They did not come neatly dressed in shirt and tie, ready to proclaim the Book of Mormon. Instead, wearing bright yellow T-shirts, 40 volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came armed with chainsaws, work gloves and wheel barrows; and Saturday morning, they knocked on two Hodges Road doors to clear a large hardwood whose limbs covered much of the land between the properties.

Tom Brokaw, Alfie Boe to join Mormon Tabernacle Choir for Christmas concerts

The annual Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concerts are actually a three-part holiday tradition. Part One happened Thursday morning, when choir officials appeared on KSL Radio's "Doug Wright Show" to announce that Tony-winning tenor Alfie Boe and venerated broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw will join the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square for the traditional concerts, which are scheduled for Dec. 13-15 in the LDS Church's Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City. The two men will also join the choir for it's Sunday morning "Music and the Spoken Word" broadcast on Dec. 16.

Latter-day Saint Life

10 Ways to Incorporate Music into Your Next Sunday Lesson

MR says: What fun and creative ideas! Who doesn't love a little more music on the Sabbath?

Questions that haunt — Am I loved? Am I beautiful? Am I divine?

Have you asked yourself, "Am I loved? Am I beautiful? Am I divine?" Last week I spoke to one of my favorite groups — Alpha Delta Kappa. ADK is an international honorary organization for women educators. They have chapters in all 50 states plus Puerto Rico, Australia, Canada, Jamaica and Mexico.

From the Church

Church Calls New Temple President for South Africa

A new temple president and matron have been called by the First Presidency. They will begin their service when the temple is dedicated.

Summer Plans: 100+ things to do with your kids this summer

With less than a month left until school gets out, I am making Grand Plans to ensure that we have something to do every day. (And I just counted, we only have 80 days of summer vacation. That is not even a full three months. I remember summer being so long!)