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LDS historic destinations
The Memorial Day weekend signals an activity shift for Latter-day Saint families living in the United States. For many, it's a warm-weather period to, say, visit the beach, nurse the season's first sunburn, relish time away from school and, for mom and dad, use a few vacation hours and enjoy a few...
Reprints of two pioneers' diaries available
Copies of original pioneer diaries, including those of B.H. Roberts and Frederick Kesler, are available through the University of Utah's Special Collections Department of the J. Willard Marriott Library.
Broadcasting to the world: Technology powers LDS Church connections
Long before the days of YouTube and broadband Internet, the LDS Church was sharing video content with followers around the world using technology it says is still essential to spreading a global message. The white satellite dishes tucked behind meetinghouses from Utah to Thailand help members...
Pictures of newly acquired Far West burial grounds
Mormon Life says: Pictures of one of the newest properties bought by the Church from the Community of Christ. The pictures aren't impressive, but it's momentous considering there are some 200 unmarked graves on the property.
One of several historical sites recently acquired by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the site that was once the cemetery or burial grounds of Far West, Caldwell County, Mo. The...
Mormon history scholar discusses growing media interest in LDS church
Almost two years ago, even before the pre-campaigning for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination began, Philip Barlow, the Leonard Arrington Professor of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, got a surprising phone call from a very powerful Mormon who happened to be a USU...
Joseph Smith is in 'the pantheon of the prophets'
In considering the character of the Prophet Joseph Smith, it is good "to transfer what we know into how we act," Elder Marlin K. Jensen of the Seventy said May 12.Elder Jensen, recently released as Church Historian and Recorder, was the evening dinner speaker for the National Society of the Sons...
Area rich in LDS history is now home to Church's 137th temple
Mormon Life says: There's a nice photo gallery with this article.
In an area of the United States hallowed by the suffering and sacrifices of Latter-day Saints in the late 1830s, President Thomas S. Monson dedicated on May 6 the Church's 137th operating temple.The...
Mitt Romney and Those 'Mormon Moments'
Mormon Life says: Click on the forwarding link to watch the video the article is summarizing.
From Donny and Marie Osmond, to HBO's "Big Love," to Proposition 8 in California, to persistent -- and inaccurate -- Beltway legends about how half of the CIA is staffed by members of the LDS...
Church restores historic meetinghouses
Mormon Life says: I love this article's photo gallery of historic churches.
The bricks, mortar and beams of a meetinghouse create a level of emotional connection for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who gather there. Significant personal moments in...
Mormonism and Its History—Past, Present, and Future
Every religion has many dilemmas when it comes to its history. How does a group incorporate the idea of a God or Universal force or will that acts in the development of that group and/or the unfolding of world events when such things are not acceptable claims in academic disciplines? How does a...
Elder Jensen will speak at symposium on Joseph Smith
Elder Marlin K. Jensen, the LDS Church's historian, will be the evening keynote speaker at the Sons of the Utah Pioneers' annual symposium on May 12.
Latter-day Saint Images, 1920
Mormon Life says: Click on the link to view the full photo gallery.
Latter-day Saints, at worship and play, in 1920.
LDS Church buys historical sites from Community of Christ
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints confirmed Saturday that it purchased 6,000 acres of Missouri farmland and three historical sites from the Community of Christ — the group formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The Church recently acquired...
Defending the Faith: A simple explanation works best for the Restoration
We left off last week with the notion that the Book of Mormon was plagiarized from a manuscript written by Solomon Spalding, who had died in 1816. Sidney Rigdon, so the story goes, stole the work from Spalding's family and, for whatever reason, used it to set the young farmer Joseph Smith up as a...
Church History Museum's youth art contest deadline is June 1
The deadline for the LDS Church History Museum's International Art Competition for Youth is June 1.
