Do Latter-day saints believe in soul mates?

Set in a dystopian future, the Hunger Games series have captivated millions through its portrayal of how courage, compassion, and selflessness can endure in the face of heartbreaking cruelty. With the new Hunger Games movie in theatres, I felt it would be appropriate to pay tribute to the series through this blog post (You saw what I did there). Here are seven ways that lessons from the Hunger Games apply to LDS youth and single adults.

In the back office of his Weston, Mass., headquarters a quarter-century ago, Mitt Romney, the chief Mormon authority in the Boston area, told the leader of his Spanish-speaking congregation that he would not directly pay for lawyers to help the growing number of illegal immigrants in his church. Then he carefully instructed his subordinate on how to circumvent the Mormon Church’s new hard line against such assistance and subsidize their legal aide. “In those issues I cannot help you financially to pay for lawyers,” Romney said, according to Jose Francisco Anleu, a Guatemalan immigrant. “But what I can do is allow you to give them food assistance from the bishop’s warehouse,” a church welfare pantry. The money saved could be used to “pay lawyers.” He reminded Anleu that he could use church funds to cover rent, utilities and health care for his needy members. The money came from Anleu’s budget, but, as Anleu noted decades later, it was a budget sustained by Romney’s office.

Legendary Filipina politician Miriam Defensor Santiago owns over a million books in her private library. A former member of her country's executive and judicial branches and a current legislator, Senator Santiago has also served the Philippines as a lawyer and judge. A recent presidential candidate, Santiago was just presented with one more book for her shelves—a copy of the Book of Mormon.

In the article “Interacting Online as a Member Missionary” on the LDS Tech website, Amy Boyack writes

This new video from Mormon.org provides members with a great way to introduce family and friends to the sacred truths of the temple!

Social media didn't exist when BYU first made No. 1 on the stone-cold sober list in the 1990s. Now?

When T.C. Christensen's film "17 Miracles" was released last year, Mormon audiences embraced the compelling pioneer stories of courage and inspiration. But many had questions about what was historically accurate and what was artistically altered.

A football field is not usually considered a place of love. But it was during his time playing for the NFL that Steve Young began to explore what he now calls the law of love. He realized that relationships based on the expectation of receiving something in return eventually rot, but when we bring long-suffering, gentleness, meekness, and love unfeigned to our relationships—that’s when the magic happens.