What They're Saying About "Us"
Newspaper looks inside a LDS ward in Guyana
Mormon Life says: It is always nice to remember the diverse nature of our worldwide Church.
On a recent Sunday, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Jamaica gathered in a second-floor conference room for their weekly meeting. During the sacrament prayer, members...
Researcher says Brigham, not Joseph, put Mormonism on path to success
Mormonism owes its continual rise much more to Brigham Young, the man who led the incipient movement across the Plains, than to Joseph Smith, who began it all with talk of angels and gold plates. At least that's how Utah researcher Richard Van Wagoner sees it after spending the past 15 years...
Mormon officials offer to work with Phoenix neighbors upset about proposed temple
Mormon Church officials said Monday they want to work with a north Phoenix neighborhood, who turned in more than 16,000 signatures last week asking that voters decide the height of a temple. Some residents are opposing the temple at 5104 W. Pinnacle Peak Road, saying the structure is not a...
Florida paper sharing stories of mission calls and MTC
As friends and relatives made their way to James Tate’s house, he couldn’t help but reminisce about the world he was to leave behind. Wherever he was going, his family and friends couldn’t follow. Tate was about to open a letter that would dictate where he would spend the next two years of his...
A new -- or is it old? -- manual for Mormons
After a decade of going back to Brigham, back to Joseph and back to Wilford, Mormons are going back to basics. Starting this month, adult Latter-day Saints will shelve their study of past Mormon prophets and return to fundamentals of their faith as spelled out in a 30-year-old book called Gospel...
Phoenix Temple foes claim enough signatures to overturn building approval
Mormon Life says: More trouble for the Phoenix Temple.
Aaron Gibbs took more than normal to Hedgpeth Hills last month when he walked a hiking trail at a north Phoenix park. Gibbs donned hiking boots, packed water and trail mix, took his two boys and...
Refugees find help and (some) a new congregation from the Church
They arrived without coats or gloves, stepping off the airplane in only flip-flops as snow tumbled from the Utah sky. Sar Sein and his wife, Hser Eh Dah, never had seen those white flakes before -- and certainly hadn't prepared for the winter chill that would come with them. The temperatures...
Radio host pulls kids from school, claiming the teaching of veiled Mormonism
Mormon Life says: She is saying anything written by Mormons (even if they are not writing about the faith) have no place being taught in a Christian school.
Changes in the curriculum at Crosspoint Academy have some parents, including prominent radio host Delilah Rene Luke, concerned the private Christian school in Chico is straying from its biblical...
Philadelphia Temple site was second choice
Mormon Life says: It is going to be a beautiful addition to downtown Philadelphia.
The Mormon Church has shifted the location for its first Philadelphia temple from North Broad Street to Vine Street between 17th and 18th Streets, Robert B. Smith, a church leader in Philadelphia,...
The background on how the Tonight Show's "Song for Mormons" came to be
Mormon Life says: This is a fun read about how the idea to give a song back to the Mormons started and how the Tonight Show got its hands on the idea.
Late-night television audiences have come to expect zany song-and-dance numbers from Conan O’Brien’s “The Tonight Show,” but the show’s recent Mormon Christmas send-up actually had its roots in an...
Muslims attending BYU find similarities between Islam, LDS tenets
Mormon Life says: What is the thing this Muslim student finds odd about BYU? All the people trying to get married. (Funny.)
He's been to LDS general conference and sacrament meeting, given a family home evening lesson and shared his beliefs during fast and testimony meeting. But the one thing that still puzzles Talha...
"Big Love" planning for controversial story line
Mormon Life says: Sounds like it will be designed to provoke controversy and target the Church.
Television polygamy drama "Big Love" returns for a fourth season in January with a gay storyline that is likely to stir up controversy in Mormon circles where homosexual relations are prohibited. ...
Temple Square Named "Favorite Place to Catch the Holiday Spirit"
Inspectors from the American Automobile Association recently picked some of the best places to enjoy holiday festivities around the country, and the lights on Temple Square made the list. AAA inspectors were asked to list their favorite places across the nation to "catch the holiday spirit" during...
The Tonight Show gives us 'Mormon Song'
Orrin Hatch writes Hanukkah song...Conan gives us the Mormon song. Hilarious. (Albeit a tad misinformed.)
Mary -- For I am his mother
Mormon Life says: A really beautiful and educational look into the life and qualities of Mary, the mother of Jesus.
"A virgin exceedingly white and fair, most beautiful above all other virgins." Thus Nephi described the mother of the Son of God when he beheld her in vision. In such terms is Mary often...
