Opinions & Features
Brazil missionary, convert rejoice together after 45 years
Mormon Life says: This is really very touching.
When Curtis Broadbent was a Mormon missionary in Brazil in the early 1960s, he met a teenager named Aldo Francesconi. Broadbent taught Francesconi, who was baptized just before he turned 17, and...
To abandon marriage is to abandon children
To abandon traditional marriage is to abandon children, said a speaker at the Stand Up for Family Student Symposium at BYU on Saturday, March 6. Professor William C. Duncan, director of the Marriage Law Foundation and a family law teacher at the university, said that children -- whom marriage is...
Love keeps 99-year-old Mormon convert going
Anna Carlson believes love -- loving others and being loved -- is why she has lived to be 99 years old. "I just love everybody, and for some reason they all love me," she said recently from her retirement center home near the Jordan River Temple. And now that the one-year anniversary of her...
An early morning start for seminary students in Chicago
Mormon Life says: Early morning seminary students should get an extra special diploma. Just my opinion.
After arising at 4:50 each school-day morning, 16-year-old Sonia Brown leaves home at 5:25 to make her way by Chicago Transit Authority bus and train through the streets of the third-largest city in...
Why aren't other peoples mentioned in the Book of Mormon?
Last week it was explained that the Lehites were a small incursion into a larger existing New World population. Such a position raises at least two questions: 1. If the Lehites met "others" in the New World, why are they not mentioned? 2. What about those verses that imply that the Lehites were...
The many Hugh Nibley courtship story myths
Imagine, if you will, that Hugh Nibley is stuck like Bill Murray in the movie "Groundhog Day" -- except instead of repeating the same day over and over, the magic of folklore is creating multiple stories of how Nibley found love and marriage at BYU. William A. Wilson, an emeritus professor of...
What is the definition of 'anti-Mormon'?
I have often heard the criticism that Latter-day Saints classify everyone who disagrees with our beliefs as "anti-Mormon." Of course, the people who say this are usually anti-Mormons. Am I proving their point? I don't think so. I actually agree that this is a problem in our church. After all, our...
Of children, eggs and screeching
My son, Geoffrey, and his wife, Heather, have two daughters, Zoe (4) and Phoebe (2). Quite apart from the fact that these children are of extraordinary intelligence and virtue, they're quite normal. So parents everywhere will understand this story, even if their children have not found such...
BYU students solve Mormon mysteries
The questions usually start simply enough. As the full-time editors of each volume of the Joseph Smith Papers program comb through the journals, histories and other documents of Joseph Smith, questions will pop up from the history of a reference to a meeting's minutes, mail or weather at a...
Mormon-Catholic tolerance goes back to Brigham Young years
Mormon Life says: Some nice moments in LDS history to learn of.
During his forum address at Brigham Young University on Feb. 23, Francis Cardinal George, head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, mentioned last year's participation by President...
Books on Mormonism show change
The LifeWay Christian Store on South State Street in Salt Lake City has a shelf of LDS literature. These are books, however, that probably not one Mormon in a million will ever read. Basically, they are "defense manuals," handbooks for helping Protestants deal with this ambitious, upstart religion...
LDS Church works with Cambodian government to aid rice farmers
Last November, KSL 5 News showed you how Utahns were helping Cambodian children receive education and training that changes their lives. Now, other Utahns, also missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are working to help rice farmers double their production. The rice...
Letter detailing how the Spirit warned a Chile Mission about earthquake
Mormon Life says: Wow. This is a testament to never ignore promptings.
Editor’s Note: President Larry Laycock and his wife, Sister Lisa Laycock head the Santiago Chile East Mission and had spent the two weeks prior to the 8.8 earthquake visiting each missionary...
BYU ward ties every talk and lesson to the atonement
Mormon Life says: Love this idea.
A former BYU student ward bishop did more than just tell his friends and family about his amazing experiences involving BYU students. He wrote a book about it. David Vandagriff’s new book, “I Need...
A thousand years of family history in 37 minutes
The message Clayton Brough wants your family to take away is this: Family history is not just for crusty old men winding and rewinding slides in a dark back room. Brough, known to Utahns as a gifted geographer, an enthusiastic junior high teacher, and an amiable weatherman for ABC4-KTVX until...
