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President Monson Announces New Temple in Payson, Utah

SALT LAKE CITY 25 January 2010 A new temple of …

New LDS emphasis: Care for the needy

New LDS emphasis: Care for the needy Salt Lake Tribune December 9, 2009 By Peggy Fletcher Stack Compassion for the elderly and infirm that has come to characterize Thomas S. Monson’s ministry soon will be embraced more fully by the worldwide church he leads. The LDS Church is adding “to care for the poor and [...]

Corvallis doctor tells of day in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Corvallis doctor Mark Rampton said Wednesday that he’d seen 80 patients — “and more tragedy in one day than I want to see in a lifetime.” Rampton arrived in the earthquake-flattened nation Monday with a 20-member volunteer medical team from Salt Lake City, assembled by the Humanitarian Aid branch of the Mormon [...]

Former LDS missionaries wanted for service in Haiti

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LDS books: Oxford Press finds profits in prophets

Bouncing around on the trend-tossed seas of 21st-century book publishing, Mormon scholarship seems to have docked at the granddaddy of all prestigious presses: Oxford University. By all accounts, the unlikely partnership between the oldest university in the English-speaking world and an upstart American faith seems to be working. Mormon writers, particularly historians, get the academic [...]

Mormons Most Conservative Major Religious Group in U.S. – Six out of 10 Mormons are politically conservative

PRINCETON, NJ — Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, are the most conservative major religious group in the country, with 59% identifying as conservative, 31% as moderate, and 8% as liberal. The ideological leanings of Mormons have become of greater interest in recent years as a result of Mormon [...]

Personal revelation

Personal revelation: One night while laying in bed, LDS playwright Mahorni Stewart experienced a manifestation or “a rush of thoughts and feelings” that helped him both produce his new play, “Manifest,” as well as better understand “Personal Revelation and Art.” He explains: “Those deeply beautiful moments of light ought not to be ignored either. When [...]

Cyber Safety: Social Networks and LDS Families By Ken Knapton

Social networks are places on the Internet where like-mined people go to converse, share pictures, talk about what is going on in their lives, and just virtually “hang out”. Many members are making use of these sites – as evidenced by an experiment on one of the most popular social networking sites, Facebook. In March [...]

Be a captain in gospel’s cause, Mormon apostle says

PROVO — Just as the pilot of a disabled airliner was prepared to safely land, young adults need to be prepared for their spiritual destiny, Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve said during a Church Educational System fireside of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday. Speaking to [...]

BYU documentary adds testimony to scholarship

JERUSALEM — S. Kent Brown sits alone in his family room in Utah. He watches a PBS documentary with intense interest, quietly taking notes. He knows several of the people being interviewed in the show. They are fellow scholars, people Brown respects, experts on the New Testament. Brown knows them well enough that he could [...]