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Young Women programs past and present
How Mormon womanhood was constructed through the Young Women program's curriculum, expectations placed upon young women athletes in the LDS Church, and exploring childhood in the church were topics discussed in "Childhood, Youth, and Gender in the Mormon Past and Present," at the 2010 Mormon...
Cebu City Philippines Temple: 'It was a long wait'
From the time ground was broken to begin construction of the Cebu City Philippines Temple on Nov. 14, 2007, Cesar A. Perez Jr. has looked forward to the events of this week, which will culminate with the temple's dedication on Sunday, June 13. Elder Perez is the Area Seventy who coordinates the...
Ask Dr. Elia: Parenting is like bowling
In the past weeks, I have received several questions from parents about how to become more effective. So many parents (especially moms) feel overwhelmed by the daily demands. Trying to raise children in today's society is not an easy task. Our children are being pulled from all sides by a...
How to get published in the LDS market
MR says: This is funny...and informative. Veranda Bella Pratt sat in the back of the room at the LDStorymakers Writers Conference in April. Her dream was simple: Write the perfect Mormon novel and convince an LDS publisher to publish it. Veranda mistakenly believed that only one person stood between her...
Students give out copies of Book of Mormon on international stage
Neither of the young men were on a mission, not anymore anyway, but that didn't stop two Mormon 20-somethings from traveling to Hong Kong, speaking to an internationally diverse crowd about the church and handing out dozens of copies of the Book of Mormon. "We had both decided individually to...
No more excuses -- start attending baptismal services
My wife and I ran into a pair of Mormon missionaries on the subway earlier this week. When they learned that we were members of the Harlem First Ward, their eyes lit up. "Did you go to your ward's baptism last Sunday?" one of the elders asked. Fortunately, we were able to answer in the...
Read (or listen) to Wilford Woodruff's testimony of Joseph Smith
MR says: The first recording ever of a prophet's voice, his testimony is not only cool to listen to but a powerful read. For the first time in history, a prophet of God was about to make an audio recording of his testimony. It was Friday, March 12, 1897, only 20 years since Thomas Edison had invented the...
Orson Scott Card: Husbands, wives and decisions
MR says: Some good advice here. One of the hardest things to learn, for people embarking on the difficult enterprise of marriage, is decision-making. It's easy to conceive of a marriage as a corporation, with a CEO who makes all the decisions, and a staff that carries them out. This looks attractive for...
Brigham Young: The man the Lord made
What makes the measure of a man — and how soon does God take in hand a soul whom it is his purpose and desire to train and prepare for greater things? John Young, Brigham Young's father, fought in the Revolutionary War under George Washington. The ninth of 11 children, Brigham was known to say,...
Non-LDS historians often ignore Mormon women, researcher says
Few women of the 19th century were as controversial or as maligned as Mormon women because critics, angered by polygamy, often portrayed them as victims of lecherous husbands and a despotic church. This stereotype has influenced the treatment of Mormon women by historians, an influence that...
The evolution of Mormon shopping
Did you know that ZCMI is considered the first department store in America? Do you know why? On Friday morning, as part of the Mormon History Association conference in Missouri, Debi Brady and Kelly Lelegren both discussed how in the mid- to late-19th century President Brigham Young feared that...
German Mormons recall living during World War II
They called it Operation Gomorrah. On the night of July 27, 1943, more than 700 Allied aircraft attacked the city of Hamburg, Germany. The bombings created a firestorm akin to an outdoor blast furnace with winds up to 150 miles per hour and reaching temperatures of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. The...
Mormon convert to walk 1,863 miles for change
MR says: Great profile of an inspirational woman. Lynn McPherson is no stranger to change. Whether it's living on the streets, scrounging for every penny, nickel, dime and quarter she could to keep her three children alive, altering the views of those who view the homeless as nothing but drunken failures,...
You're welcome in the ward, no matter what you wear
MR says: Like this. And amen. A woman I remember seeing regularly in the London Hyde Park Ward in 1998 usually wore a velour sweat suit to church. Not the same sweat suit each week. Heaven's no! After a few weeks it was apparent she had several sweat suits in her wardrobe. She was always on time and in her...
Fidel Castro and the MTC
MR says: There is a connection...promise. What does communist leader Fidel Castro have to do with the birth of the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah? Actually a lot, argued Shawn Bennion on Friday afternoon during the Mormon History Association annual conference. Bennion set the stage by...
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