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The LDS Gospel according to Sen. Orrin Hatch
The title of this blog may perhaps be a bit flip. It’s a book-sized testimony of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by one of its more prominent members, Utah’s senior-citizen senator, Sen. Orrin Hatch. Published by a small bookseller, Cedar Fort Publishing, Hatch acknowledges that it’s a “short primer” designed for investigators, new converts, missionaries, young people and persons interested in learning about his faith’s history. While it’s likely destined for a longer shelf life at Deseret Industries than Deseret Book, there is a certain sweetness and sincerity in Hatch’s “An American, a Mormon and a Christian — My Basic Beliefs.”
Latter-day Saint Life
The True Cost of Spiritual Freedom
We’re approaching the 4th of July, the day we celebrate the birth of our nation and the freedoms we enjoy.
Washington Post: Romney may announce presidential bid in April
RealClearPolitics.com reports that Mitt Romney is hiring staff for his anticipated presidential run:
Prominent black Mormon to speak about King
Darius Gray was one of only two black American students at Brigham Young University at the height of the civil-rights movement in 1965.
Is America ready to elect the first Mormon president?
At the Democratic National Convention, I noticed a campaign button with President Obama's picture on it and the words: "Keep the Dream Alive." I thought to myself, that's an odd thing to say. Is anyone really trying to kill "the Dream" so that it needs protection?
Videos
8 Must-See A Cappella Videos by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
With over 160 years of singing, the Choir has indeed performed its share of a cappella songs. Watch these videos below to hear the Choir without any instrumentation.
Teens from varying religions overcome differences
SALT LAKE CITY — A group of teenagers climbed on a big wooden platform Thursday at the ROPES Challenge Course in the scorching Utah heat. But it wasn't just any platform. It was built like a seesaw, and the youngsters had to balance together to keep all four edges from touching the ground.
Salt Lake City named most Christian city in U.S.
A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, “2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (RCMS)” was recently released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county by county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups. (The survey differentiates between specific denominations within the same tradition.)
The Atlantic Partners with Deseret News For Series On Fatherhood
In recent days, The Deseret News, a newspaper in Salt Lake City, prominently displayed on its website a feature about Mormons on reality TV shows. The Atlantic magazine’s home page, meanwhile, drew readers toan article on why women struggle to write about sex.
Scientists still searching for 'God particle'
Creation is at the center of religion, and it is also at the center of a search, not for God, but for the "God particle." In April rumors began that the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider near Geneva had found what it was built, in part, to find: the elusive Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle." It would have been a huge scientific breakthrough, but it looks now that the God particle may not exist after all.