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Elizabeth Smart Shares the One Compelling Detail that Helped Her Escape

Faith Counts, a multi-faith initiative that represents more than 100 million Americans, is celebrating the release of a new video. The compelling YouTube video that features kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart is the 14th video produced by the group.

Mormon volunteerism discussed by scholars at Pew Forum

Mormon volunteerism got the attention of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. The research and survey group hosted an event titled “Mormons and Civic Life,” during which University of Pennsylvania professor Ram Canaan presented recent findings about Mormon volunteerism and charitable giving in the United States. “What did we find?” Canaan asked. “For religious activities, [church-going Mormons] give on average 242 hours; for church-affiliated volunteering to help meet social needs of people in the church, 96 hours; for church-affiliated activities helping people outside the church, 56 hours; and for [volunteer] activities outside of the church totally, 34 hours.

ABC News: Church official pushes Mormon voter registration in key swing state

In a provocative move within a religious organization that has sought to display strict political neutrality, an official of the Mormon church has disseminated a presentation across the key swing state of Nevada that urges members to vote and speak "with one voice" in the coming Presidential election that pits Mormon Mitt Romney against President Barack Obama. "Any Mormon would understand exactly what's being said there," said Randall Balmer, a Dartmouth religion professor who has studied the church's handling of Romney's presidential bids. "This is very thinly coded language."

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Following the Metronome of the Gospel

I’ve been working on making my running more efficient, trying to get faster and using my energy in the right ways. One suggestion given to me was to make sure I was getting 180 steps per minute. I realize that there are some differing opinions on this (as there are with everything in the running world), but for me, I thought I would give it a try.

From the Church

After 15 percent of Provo MTC missionaries test positive for COVID, new procedures implemented

By Newsroom of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church announced Thursday that a spike in COVID-19 cases has prompted MTC leaders to implement new protocols.

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When Cain Appeared to Joseph Fielding Smith's Brother & Talked with an Apostle

By Katie Lambert

Bigfoot stories are often the theme of many spooky tales among nonbelievers and believers alike.

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What the Media Got Wrong About Elder Bednar's Comments on Gay Members

By LDS Living Staff

What was meant to be a loving, encouraging remark to homosexual members within the Church has quickly been twisted, pulled out of context, and cut up by members of the media, making it appear as if Elder Bednar and the other leaders of the Church are anything but loving and supportive of its members.

{LDSL Blog} Top LDS Living Stories of 2012

By Kaela Worthen Gardner

The Church has made huge strides this year in reaching out to the LGBT community and opening up the discussion on homosexuality within the context of the gospel. This article was by far our biggest pot-stirrer of the year, but it is also one that helps spread understanding and compassion. Without proclaiming what is best for others, one man dealing with same-sex attraction, Ty Mansfield, shares his faith-affirming testimony of his experiences that led to his getting married in the temple and starting a family of his own.

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8 Unique (and Painless) Ways to Share the Gospel Online

By Larry Richman

At the BYU Campus Education Week in August of last year, Elder David A. Bednar told Latter-day Saints that their efforts to communicate gospel messages through social media channels was a good beginning, but only a small trickle. “I now extend to you the invitation to help transform the trickle into a flood,” he said. “I exhort you to sweep the earth with messages filled with righteousness and truth—messages that are authentic, edifying, and praiseworthy—and literally to sweep the earth as with a flood.”

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Prophets and Apostles' Accounts of Seeing the Spirit World and Beyond the "Veil of Death"

By President Russell M. Nelson

The following is an excerpt from President Russell M. Nelson's bookThe Gateway We Call Death.