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Bible Meets Twitter in LDS Author's New Book, 'The Twible'
Nearly every home has at least one Bible, although few read it. But 16 percent of Americans log on to Twitter every day. And that’s where author Jana Riess takes the word of God. A popular Mormon blogger at Religion News Service and author of “Flunking Sainthood,” Riess spent four years tweeting every book of the Old and New Testaments with pith and wit.
President Hugh B. Brown’s Most Famous Statement
One of the best-known, most famous of General Authority statements is Hugh B. Brown’s admonition to BYU students during a May 13, 1969, campus-wide Devotional that “We are not so much concerned with whether your thoughts are orthodox or heterodox as we are that you shall have thoughts.” Brown, at the time, was First Counselor to Church President David O. McKay. Few other “official” statements articulate so succinctly the Church’s commitment to freedom of the mind. Does it, should it, matter that President Brown never actually spoke those words?
Latter-day Saint Life
When God Doesn’t Answer Your Prayers
During my final semester as a freshman at BYU-Idaho, I was dating a boy I’d met back home in southern California during my off-track. Before I’d met him, I had planned on returning to Idaho and living there year-round until I finished school. But by mid-semester, I was seriously considering going home and taking my classes online in the fall so I could be with him.
New vision has BYUtv expanding audience with values-based entertainment
Even as an explosion of new broadcast networks and channels splintered the American television market, a little university channel called BYUtv extended its reach to 60 million homes in the first decade of its existence while consistently broadcasting university devotionals, scripture roundtables and other content aimed primarily at Mormons.
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Latter-day Saint Life
Philippines MTC Adds Two New Buildings, Doubles Capacity for Missionaries
Along with the Provo MTC expansion, the Philippines MTC also expanded to include two new buildings to meet the growing needs of missionaries in the Asia Area.
BYU Student, New Father Succumbs to Sudden Illness Day After Son's Birth
In this season of giving, a community has rallied around a Utah County woman who's dealing with immense loss. Her husband suddenly died Friday night, just one day after the birth of their first child. Josh Robison, 24, was a student at BYU and taught at Lone Peak High School's LDS Seminary. His mother said he was enjoying married life and anticipating the birth of his son.
BYU Study: Blogs may help women transition to 'mom'
New moms who blog seem to transition into parenthood with a greater sense of social support and connection. And that can mean less depression, parenting stress and negative marital adjustment, according to research conducted at BYU.
Utah NBC affiliate owned by Mormon church won’t air ‘The New Normal,’ show featuring gay couple
A Mormon church-owned NBC affiliate in Utah won’t air an upcoming sitcom about a gay couple that invites a surrogate mother into their home as they try to have a baby because the station deems the content inappropriate for its audience. “The New Normal” is set to debut Sept. 11 on NBC.
Mormon church’s plans for land upset Harlem
The wider world does not often glimpse the internal disputes of the Mormon Church. Formally known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the fast-growing religion is expanding in places as far-flung as Africa and Latin America, but most big decisions are still made centrally by a church hierarchy in Salt Lake City.
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All 4 of Joseph Smith's Accounts of the First Vision Released in 10 languages
Millions of international members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can now study an essential part of Mormon history for themselves.