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The Smithsonian, the Book of Mormon, and an Urban Legend
"Your inquiry of [date] concerning the Smithsonian Institution’s alleged use of the Book of Mormon as a scientific guide has been received in this office for response.
LDS 79-year-old finally gets high school diploma
Just before another crop of graduates received diplomas at Bonneville High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on May 23, a man from an earlier generation obtained his. It was a moment far too long in the making.
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10 Mormons Share Why They Were Sealed in the Temple
Have you ever driven past a Mormon temple and wondered what happens inside?
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LDS Young Adults Use New Year's for Charity
That may sound like an unusual combination, but an African charity recently asked the LDS Young Adult Stakes to gather shoes that it plans to sell in Africa. Officials there will use that money to build a well for a village currently without a clean water supply.
Columnist contrasts Elder Russell M. Nelson and Rev. Robert Jeffress
The Rev. Robert Jeffress of Dallas is taking some national heat for his comments last weekend about presidential candidate Mitt Romney and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, referring to the LDS Church as a "cult." One columnist even went so far as to compare the Christian influence of Rev. Jeffress with Elder Russell M. Nelson of the LDS Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — and found Rev. Jeffress to be lacking.
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The Role Angels Play in Our Lives Today
At Christmastime, angels are everywhere—from artwork and songs to ornaments, wrapping paper, and many other cultural artifacts, from the sacred to the profane, the classy to the kitschy. (For the top of the Christmas tree, I’m a star person, myself.) Angels are “trending” during this (seemingly ever-lengthening) season of the year, mostly because heavenly messengers figure prominently in the Christmas story but also because angels seem to be one of the few religious images you might find in otherwise secular celebrations. It would be hard to imagine Christmas without them.
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Elder Cook Tells Stanford Students Many Universities "Have Abandoned Basic Moral High Ground"
MR says: Elder Cook, an alumni from the Stanford School of Law, spoke to students at convocation about their "faith, accountability to God, and the religious impulse [that] are increasingly being marginalized in a secular world."
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.
Poll: Prejudice against Mormon candidates not as deep as you thought
Newly released poll results indicate that a generic Mormon faces a 7-to-15% anti-Mormon bias among voters, but a specific Mormon, such as Mitt Romney, fares better than those findings might suggest. Pollster Gary Lawrence, whose firm conducted a July nationwide poll of 905 registered voters among a broader sample of 1000 adults, said his study confirmed the previously measured bias:
U2's Bono talks about his Christian faith in interview with Focus on the Family
Bono, the lead singer of the rock band U2, talked openly about his faith in an interview with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family. “When people say [Jesus was a] ‘good teacher,’ ‘prophet,’ ‘really nice guy’ … this is not how Jesus thought of himself,” Bono said.