Young Men: Mutual Activity Ideas

by LDS Living Staff
Try these suggestions to get your creative juices flowing and move you beyond the old standby of pick-up basketball. Read more >

Being Dad, and Being There

by Joseph Walker
It would be something of an overstatement to say that I played on the school basketball team in junior high. Read more >

My Great Idea: LDS Bachelor Parties

by Chris McClellan
Before my youngest brother got married, I mentioned to a non-LDS friend that we were throwing a bachelor party. My friend looked incredulous. "Why? You won't look at girls, or drink, or tell dirty jokes. What’s the point?" He was sure we were in for the most boring night of our lives. Read more >

The 3 P's of Priesthood Leadership in the Home

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Priesthood leadership responsibilities don't disappear when you leave elders quorum or the moment after you ordain a deacon. In fact, the majority of your priesthood duties may not even revolve around Church meetings at all. Read more >

Confessions of a Halfhearted Home Teacher

by Richard J. Marshall, Home Teaching with Purpose and Power, 1-13.
The red car accelerated up the ramp and onto the freeway, and the two men inside settled back comfortably, pleased to be heading out of the city so early in the morning. They had already spent some pleasant minutes conversing together as they had worked their way across town. Read more >

Teaching the Priesthood

by Jordan Green
Your quorum doesn't expect you to decorate the table with doilies, spread out your scrapbooks, or pass around chocolates in a basket. But they may just benefit from a gospel discussion with some preparation and a few insights on your part. Read more >

A MENrichment Activity for Your Elders Quorum

by Bridget Rees
You may not have a lace tablecloth on your podium table each Sunday, or an arrangement of silk flowers to accompany your matted and framed Declaration on the Family, but that doesn’t mean a Relief Society-patterned night of enrichment can’t be for you men, too. Just make yours with a little more elders-quorum flair. Read more >

Just Like Dad

by George D. Durrant
Regardless of all the other honors we can aspire to in this life, that of Father has more meaning--and consequence--than any other. Read more >

Key Word: Together

by Joseph Walker
He was clearly on the way up--a rising star. Everything he touched turned to gold. Sometimes platinum. Professionally, he was praised and admired. Co-workers were impressed with his professionalism. Read more >

The Finer Points of Fatherhood

by Matthew J. Kennedy
There are few things as sincere as a parent’s desire that their children grow up to be healthy, kind, and happy. Loving our children, nurturing them, and finding little moments over the years when even friendship becomes a part of our relationship with our kids can feel at times like the proverbial heaven on earth. Yet, since our debut role as fathers is often thrust on us in our brilliant twenties, the art of good parenting can sometimes seem a little clumsy. Read more >

Last Day of the Month Again?

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It’s the last day of the month and your head is pounding. Not only does your car need new windshield wipers, but rent is due tomorrow. Your wife’s having trouble tangoing with three kids and one in the oven, your company’s laying people off, and you were just called as the Scouts’ leader . . . again. As you sit down on the couch with a bag of potato chips, the phone rings. It’s Brother Stuart, your dutiful home teaching companion, raring to go. "Last day of the month, Tod," he says brightly. "It’s time to get started on next month’s home teaching." Read more >