Opinions & Features
Traditional Christianity and the Latter-day Saints
Mormon Life says: The author answers a few frequently asked questions about the LDS Church.
The following is an essay by Robert L. Millet, professor of religion and emeritus dean of Religious Education at Brigham Young University. The issue of whether Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are...
RootsTech speaker predicts 7 billion to participate in genealogy
By 2060 nearly 7 billion people will participate in family history, FamilySearch’s former Chief Executive Officer Jay Verkler told attendees at RootsTech. FamilySearch has grown 3 percent per year, said Verkler, who retired last month. He is being replaced by Dennis Brimhall. The future and...
Answering questions about marriage and family
Last week we wrote about the importance of distinguishing between people who are "interested" in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and should be invited to have the missionaries and those who are merely "curious" and need a thoughtful and well-worded answer to a question they...
Never been on a date? LDS singles' experiences provide tips, skills
Mormon Life says: There's also a printable quiz to see how experienced you are as a dater.
For LDS singles, going out on a first date is a rite of passage. It is viewed as an activity that should be simultaneously fun and purposeful. A February 2011 study of Utah Valley University...
Elder Cook Expresses Love to Members in Australia, New Zealand—Part 2
Following a visit to Sydney, Australia, Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles traveled to meet with members, missionaries, and local officials in Christchurch, New Zealand, and in Melbourne and Auckland in Australia. Accompanying Elder Cook were his wife, Mary, and other...
Former missionaries return to Ecuador to serve 20 years later
It’s Friday afternoon when the two dozen or so children who attend Control de Tareas (Homework Control) at the Annika Tutoring Center in Guayaquil, Ecuador, exit the facility. In years past, the center, run by the Fundación por Ayuda Humanitaria (Foundation for Humanitarian Aid—FAHUM), could...
Service brings magical rewards
There is something magical about the combination of helping others while receiving nothing tangible in return that gets into your soul and takes you on a magical journey. Jessica Braithwaite is a mother of five, lives in Highland, Utah, and has been on many magical journeys throughout her life. ...
Readers' forum: Politics and religion
I was very heartened by the Christlike attitude shown by Pasor Joel Osteen of the Lake Wood Church, Houston, Texas. During an interview on CBS he stated that Mitt Romney in his view, is a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and although there exists differences between The Church of Jesus Christ of...
When is it OK for girls to be mean? When standards are on the line
Raising three teenage daughters is no picnic, but has, on occasion, been a feast of opportunities to grow, stretch and parent much differently than we planned. When our girls were young, school was a breeze and they had few academic challenges. So my husband and I often spent parent-teacher...
Joy found in stabs of 'divine homesickness'
A central theme in C.S. Lewis' autobiographical book "Surprised by Joy" — and the obvious source of its title — is what he terms "Joy." Yet Lewis struggles to convey what he means. "Longing," he calls it, sometimes using the evocative German synonym "Sehnsucht." He describes fleeting instants...
450 Cambodian Saints celebrate 'Day of Service' with festival cleanup
Mormon Life says: President Eyring's challenge for a "Day of Service" has done so much good around the world.
More than 450 members of the Central, North and South districts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, recently carried out their local "Day of Service" project by cleaning up trash and other debris left over...
Podcast: Effecting Change in the Church
This episode features panelists who all are deeply involved with theLDSChurch, yet from their position of involvement in, and love and affection for, the church and those they worship and serve with, each of them acts as an agent for change. As one of the panelists, Carol Lynn Pearson, suggests in...
MTC celebrates 50-year anniversary with devotional
Fifty years ago last year, newly called missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints going to two foreign-language missions began receiving preparatory language instruction in Provo prior to their departure. "Tonight, we join in joyous jubilee to commemorate 50 years of...
Mormons opening up in an Internet world
Mormon Life says: Church historian Marlin K. Jensen discusses how technology and easy access to knowledge has raised a few questions with members about church history.
Daniel Peterson remembers when he was blindsided. It was in the early 1980s and Peterson was in his late 20s. He was surprised at what a critic of the LDS Church had written. "It knocked me for a...
Podcast explores the real life of an LDS missionary
The life and faith of an LDS sister missionary is explored in great detail this week on the Research on Religion podcast. The podcast, which is sponsored by the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion and hosted by Anthony Gill, a senior fellow at the institute, features Deseret News editorial...
