"Rise Up and Speak" features 52 of Eliza R. Snow’s most powerful and timeless discourses.
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“Here are three things I’ve personally found helpful.”
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“I wondered why such bad things happened to the very people restoring the gospel. And then I stepped outside the jail.”
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“We thank Thee for this occasion and all it signifies and symbolizes,” the Apostle said in the dedicatory prayer.
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She joins the Church, gives a large donation, and is promised great blessings she sees fulfilled only after a long journey.
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It is one of the first buildings in the western United States constructed for the deaf community.
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This week marks 50 years since the building was dedicated.
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FamilySearch is collaborating on an epic journey across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Do you know there are 1,300 parking stalls in the underground parking of the Conference Center? Or that there are 50,000 miles of electrical wiring?
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“My conviction that the Savior’s church is true does not mean that I assume it is perfect.”
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She was a suffragist, physician, and the first female state senator.
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The fourth and final volume of “Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days” was published today in 14 languages.
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Joseph came to Katherine “panting for breath, … and in a gasping voice whispered hoarsely, ‘take these quickly and hide them.’”
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The gallery features the famous painting “The Second Coming,” which the Church commissioned in the 1970s.
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Volume 4 will be titled, “Saints: Sounded in Every Ear, 1955–2020.”
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The complete history of the pioneers turns out to be far richer and far more interesting than we may realize.
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Did you know St. George was likely named after Apostle George A. Smith (sometimes called the “potato saint”)? Learn why in this article.
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Read four takeaways from the Legal Records series on Joseph Smith, including when he broke tradition to let a woman testify.
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The historic purchase led many Church members to wonder if the temple would be renovated and dedicated. Read why it will stay open to the public.
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With all the buzz about the Kirtland Temple, here are the newly acquired fascinating artifacts you might have missed.
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An FAQ page from the Church answers and lists other significant items in the transfer, including the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.
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As we celebrate the 145th anniversary of the Primary organization, here are some purposes of the original Primary program that are still relevant today.
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Acting on revelation doesn’t mean we will feel inspired all the time. The experiences of two women foundational to the history of the Church teach us this in a profound way.
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The Church’s official guidelines mention two specific contexts in which it’s appropriate to use the term “Mormon.”
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The “Father of Modern Rodeo” was also known as the “Cowboy of Cowboy Artists,” “Lord Bascom—King of the Canadian Cowboys,” and “rodeo’s first collegiate cowboy.” And even those titles don’t quite capture all of Earl Bascom’s achievements.
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Starting July 6, 45 original Minerva Teichert paintings will be on display and open to the public at the Church History Museum.
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“This is a salvific sisterhood, and when men and women on a general and a local level understand this, we understand the role of Emma Smith in concert with her prophet husband.”
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July 1st is Canada Day—a celebration of the Constitution act and Canada’s equivalent to America’s Independence Day. To celebrate, here are a few facts you might not have known about this important country in Church history.
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Read about more little-known stories and miracles behind the creation of the Church’s first temple endowment film.
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The final print volume of the Joseph Smith Papers hits the shelves today. Here are 12 eye-opening things that the project brought to light over the last 20-plus years.
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Editor's note: This article was originally published in 2019.
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Here are some details leading up to Joseph Smith’s martyrdom that aren’t widely known.
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On June 9, 1848, one pioneer wrote to Brigham Young, “The seagulls have come in large flocks from the lake and sweep the crickets as they go. It seems the hand of the Lord is in our favor.”
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Read the stories of two faithful Latter-day Saint women, including a convert from Guatemala who inspired the Gospel Principles class and the consolidated Sunday meeting block.
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Latter-day Saint writer-historians Richard Turley and Barbara Jones Brown spent 14 years researching everything they could about the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
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Is your family road tripping this summer? Some of the Church’s historic sites are just a stone's throw away from popular tourist attractions!
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Many of the stories about this beloved temple are familiar, but here are some lesser-known but just as inspiring stories about the original and present-day Nauvoo temples.
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The poem was signed with a rhyme: “And so forthwith, remember Joseph Smith.”
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Helen Dowawisnima Sekaquaptewa’s determined to integrate the very best of the two worlds into her life.
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Why does the sixth of April hold such importance in the Church?
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“I have loved researching and writing about my ladies—Lucy Mack Smith, Emma Smith, Eliza R. Snow, Zina D. H. Young, and Emmeline B. Wells. But these women are just five of so many more. I invite you to learn about some whose names you may have never heard. They are worth it—you want these ladies on your team.”
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The Kirtland Temple endowment was central to the Lord’s purpose for bringing His Saints to Kirtland. Understanding varies, however, regarding what the Lord meant when He promised such a blessing.
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Hamilton, Missouri, was once in serious financial trouble. But in a matter of a few years, Jenny Doan and her family transformed the sleepy town into a magical destination. How did the Doans do it? By the power of faith—and quilts.
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I’ve been a fan of the Joseph Smith Papers Podcasts since the release of ‘The First Vision’ podcast in 2020 and the latest in the series, ‘Kirtland, City of Revelation,’ is no exception.
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This remarkable event is free, but space is limited. Find out how to attend either in person or virtually:
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There are countries cloaked in mystery. One such country is China: an enigma of thousands of years of emperors, Confucian philosophers, peasant farmers and scientific discoveries of wonder. The winds that blow across China whisper of the Silk Road and the Great Wall, of the terra cotta soldiers of Xian and the Palace of Tranquility in the Forbidden City, Peking.
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Some remembered the wicked wind, some the brackish water, others the hardships of the trail. Winters were cold, the spring air filled with sand, wagon covers flapped relentlessly and floodwaters blew out one dam after another as Mormon settlers struggled to raise crops along the Little Colorado River in eastern Arizona Territory. Among the early settlers was William Jordan Flake. In 1878, he rode out to explore the region on horseback. He traveled hundreds of miles into New Mexico Territory and back to an area north of present-day Show Low, where he found a little valley along Silver Creek, a tributary of the Little Colorado. The stream ran through hills of piñon, juniper, sage, saltbush and blue grama. A rancher, James Stinson, already had settled there. Flake bought Stinson's ranch for $11,000 worth of Utah-grade cattle.
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Filmmaker Christian Vuissa wanted to make a movie that made an impact beyond the 14 million members of the LDS faith. And after two years of research and 23 days of movie production, Vuissa is seeing how his new film, "Joseph Smith, Volume 1: Plates of Gold," is one more way people can find out the truth about the restored gospel.
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“The two things you aren’t supposed to talk about in this country are religion and politics. But that’s the explosive combo that makes this such a fascinating subject,” said Adam Christing, filmmaker and member of the Mormon History Association. "A Mormon President, Joseph Smith and the Mormon Quest for the White House" is a documentary that looks into the history behind the Mormon links to the U.S. Presidency, and it will be released on DVD on August 23.
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The outlaw Butch Cassidy was born as Robert LeRoy Parker on 13 April 1866 in Beaver, Utah, son of Maximilian Parker (a 12-year-old handcart pioneer of 1856) and Ann Gillies Parker (a 9-year-old traveler with the Hodgetts Company, the wagon company that followed after the Martin Handcart Company and shared their disastrous experiences in the Wyoming blizzards). While Robert Parker was still a small child, the family moved across the mountain range to the smaller, newer town of Circleville in Piute County. All the evidence (and I’m something of a Piute County history fanatic), the Parkers were an industrious, well respected, compassionate family. I find Max Parker, for example, riding almost 50 miles on horseback to the nearest telegraph station to send word to distant family members that Max’s neighbor – a passenger with Sam Brannan on the 1846 Brooklyn voyage to San Francisco – had died in a cabin fire in 1897. The next year, Max drove a wagon all the way to Salt Lake City to take a neighbor with appendicitis to the hospital. Max’s obituary reflects his neighbors’ opinion of his service: “He was a quiet, unassuming man and was often called the silent giver.” Butch, on the other hand … well, everybody knows something about the outlaw Butch.
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