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Elder Holland Presents Scottish Museum with Stone Inscribed with 8 Words That Changed a Prophet's Life

“I accepted the message given to me on that stone, and from that moment we tried to do our part as missionaries in Scotland.” —President David O. McKay

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The Surprising Start to the Primary Program You Probably Didn't Know About

Did you know the Primary program was originally started to help keep unruly boys out of mischief? Or that girls were invited to Primary meetings because they made the singing more melodious?

A Mormon Circus Christmas

One of the oddly lovable aspects of the circus is the way they can incorporate any figure from fairy tale or myth into their grand parade and have the audience accept it enthusiastically. When I worked as a beginning clown with the Ringling Brothers Blue Unit in 1972, we had Santa Claus atop an elephant, riding jovially around the arena waving with mittened hand at the crowd during the hottest July anyone could remember. No one seemed to think this at all strange, or out of season. Santa with the circus? Where else would the old gentleman spend his summers? Santa was played by a paunchy Bulgarian acrobat. He had no idea who Santa was, so when he was asked by the show's director to exhibit some hearty holiday spirit he could think of nothing better to do than to bellow "Hello dere!" to all the excited children.

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Elder Andersen: "You Can Never Speak Enough About the Savior"

In a devotional on Jan. 10 at the Provo Missionary Training Center, Elder Neil L. Andersen spoke to thousands of missionaries serving all over the world.

Book of Mormon goes 'under the knife' in new humanist 'Bible'

The Book of Mormon is among five holy books that go "under the knife" in a new publication by the American Humanist Association that attempts to do for these religious texts what Thomas Jefferson did with his personal cut-and-paste Bible. “A Jefferson Bible for the Twenty-First Century,” an e-book available through HumanistPress.com, includes a copy of the original Jefferson Bible, which the third president of the United States created for his personal use by cutting favored passages of scripture from the four New Testament gospels and pasting them together to form a single sequential narrative. According to the American Humanist Association website, the new publication “also includes similarly edited versions of the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), the Quran, the (Hindu) Bhagavad Gita, the Buddhist sutras and the Book of Mormon.”

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What JK Rowling Can Teach Mormons About Failure

By LDS Living

Many fans of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series are aware of the author's incredible rags-to-riches tale—and many have been inspired by it. In this video recently posted to Facebook, Rowling gives an emotional description of her journey and how she found hope and inspiration even in her darkest moments.

New Church Article Explains the Need for Partnership Between Religion & Government

Religion and government are like a couple who sometimes have a hard time living together but who find they simply cannot live apart. Religion and government both need their independence in order to flourish, but history has shown that a complete divorce is healthy for neither. They travel different but parallel tracks. They are most successful and most effective when they protect and encourage one another.

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13 Chart-Topping Hits Performed by the Tabernacle Choir

When you’ve been recording and performing for over 100 years, chances are you have sung some popular songs. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir has always been on the cutting edge of recording technology, making their first sound recordings in 1910. The Choir has also made headway into popular culture, performing some of the most respected songs in the history of music. These songs have been recorded by the music industry's top artists over the years. Below are 13 songs performed by the Choir that earned their place in pop-culture history by rising up the Billboard music charts.

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Watch: Emotional Haka Honors Māori Graduates from BYU-Hawaii

By LDS Living

At the end of February, a graduation ceremony and celebration was held for 2017 BYU-Hawaii graduates. Among the diverse mixture of students from over 70 countries at BYU-Hawaii are many Māori students, and recently a haka was performed on campus to honor these new graduates.

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9 truths about dads the media will never tell you

Here are a few interesting truths about dads that you won't ever see on TV.