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One of the top high school basketball players in the nation and his family are hoping to reach out to the LDS Polynesian and African-American communities of Utah while he is on a Thanksgiving weekend recruiting trip to BYU. Jabari Parker, a senior basketball star at Chicago's Simeon High School and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is scheduled to speak at the Salt Lake University LDS Institute of Religion, adjacent to the University of Utah, on the evening of Nov. 25, according to his brother, Christian Parker.
In the summer of 1953, American photographer Dorothea Lange traveled to southern Utah where she met up with her long-time friend, Ansel Adams. The two photographers spent three weeks photographing the landscape and people in the Mormon towns of Toquerville, Gunlock and St. George with the intention of publishing the work in LIFE magazine. Ms. Lange's enthusiasm for her subject yielded hundreds of photographs from which she composed an extended essay of 135 photographs, including images by Ansel Adams. Thirty-five of those photographs with text by Daniel Dixon appeared under the title "Three Mormon Towns" in the Sept. 6, 1954, issue of LIFE.
Central America, Guatemala is situated north of the isthmus of Darian and once embraced several hundred miles of territory from north to south. The City of Zarahemla, burned at the crucifixion of the Savior and rebuilt afterwards stood upon this land.
For the wife of an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the devastation in Japan feels personal. "They have such respect for Americans and they are such friends to us that I feel that I personally have an obligation to do anything I can to help them," said Kristen Oaks.
Mitt Romney said Friday he does not expect his Mormon faith to become a challenge in this election, and added that he thinks most voters prioritize other issues over religion.
A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that 72 percent of the United States public thinks religion is losing influence in American life, the highest level in Pew Research polling over the past 10 years. Significantly, most of the respondents who say religion's influence is waning describe this as a bad thing.
By almost all accounts, 2012 was an extraordinary year for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in terms of media scrutiny and public awareness. For a variety of reasons — most notably the American presidential campaign of lifelong Mormon Mitt Romney — the LDS Church was featured this year in numerous television specials, magazines, newspaper articles and radio programs around the world. Google reports that there have been more Internet searches including the word “Mormon” during 2012 than in any of the previous eight years.
If you have an ancestor who served in the American Civil War, it may now be easier to find information about that relative online.
Like many Americans of all faiths and backgrounds, I like to pray often. You probably do, too. We pray at church, over meals, at bedtime, before road trips and when life presents a need that only heaven can meet.
Mormon historian Richard Bushman has pioneered an approach to history based on “generosity,” and it's not just for his own faith's complicated — and often controversial — past.