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How Elder Rasband’s insights about a familiar parable gave new meaning to the phrase ‘I am a child of God’

The fact that His Atonement is a testament of our divine identity as children of God is powerful and nothing short of miraculous to me.

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How Mormonism Helped Me Find the Path to True Happiness

My name is Jenna, and I’m a recent convert to the LDS Church. I was baptized on July 12th, 2014, in Austin Texas, where I moved about two weeks before my baptism. I’m from Texas originally, but was living in Los Angeles, California for the past six years. At the time I thought I was moving there to become a filmmaker, but I now know that moving there was more of a prompting from our Heavenly Father, to meet the people that I needed to meet so that I might heal and become a whole person.

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16 Things You Never Knew About LDS Temples

With over 143 operating LDS temples around the world, there are bound to be some stories and facts you haven't heard before. Our first article in this series covered 20 interesting things about temples, and here we present 16 additional little-known facts about LDS temples.

Some high-schoolers graduating early to go on Mormon missions

Throughout high school, Brennan Rasmussen couldn’t wait until he was old enough to go on a Mormon mission. So, last year, when the church lowered the age at which men could serve from 19 to 18, Rasmussen jumped. The Timpview High student decided to accelerate his coursework at the Provo school to graduate early, so he could leave almost immediately after turning 18 in March.

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Have We Misunderstood Satan's War on Agency?

Understanding how agency works will help us understand how Satan sought—and seeks—to undermine it. Agency requires three things: options to choose from, freedom to choose, and consequence for the choice. Like a three-legged stool, agency can be weakened or destroyed (in theory) by attacking any one of the three.

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LDS Teen Pulled Over by Police Receives Huge Surprise: A National Running Award

Casey Clinger became the first male athlete in Utah to ever receive a Gatorade athlete award, an honor won by famous athletes like Peyton Manning, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Jabari Parker. And he received it in one of the most surprising of ways.

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How a Japanese Buddhist joined the Church and gave up everything to become a General Authority

Learn how Elder Takashi Wada, who was raised Buddhist, and his wife, Naomi Ueno Wada, who was raised Shinto, discovered The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and sacrificed much to follow their new faith.

Jewish Rabbi: Our friends, the Mormons

With large families, a deep love of Israel and the Jewish people, simultaneous dedication to our faith and engagement with the broader world, dietary restrictions and modest dress, and being misunderstood (even by our coreligionists), Orthodox Jews surprisingly have much in common with one of the fastest growing religions in the United States – the Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS), colloquially known as the Mormons. I would like to share reflections on last week’s meetings, coordinated by the Orthodox Union’s Advocacy Center, with the church and its political leadership in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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A Muslim Who Grew Up Among Mormons: Mormonism Is Closest to Our Faith

Like millions of others worldwide, the terrorist attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 left Avais Ahmed with a feeling of great sorrow. For all of us, it was a tragedy beyond comprehension, but for Ahmed, it was doubly painful, because it was another incident that shed a negative light on his faith as a Muslim.

43: "O God, Where Art Thou?" (Doctrine and Covenants 121–123)"

"Prison temple." Now there are two words that don’t seem like they belong together. And while these words seem contradictory, they are exactly how Latter-day Saint historians have described the experience of Liberty Jail for Joseph Smith and his friends. As we study Doctrine and Covenants 121–123, we’ll see that while this experience was beyond harrowing, it also had moments of unspeakable sacredness. And we'll learn that we too can have sacred moments of comfort and peace during our most difficult trials.