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'Verge' magazine highlights Mormons, LDS FamilySearch in video and article
MR says: This is a long and very good article on the increasing popularity (and business) of ancestry. The article talks about genealogy as a central tenet to Mormonism and mentions the free resources the Church provides. In March nearly 7,000 people traveled to the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake...
What older newspapers reported about Mormons
MR says: Brief and fascinating read. Tom Kemp has searched extensively for mentions of Latter-day Saints in older newspaper archives. And for the director of genealogy products for GenealogyBank, a newspaper digitization archive, the biggest surprise was the amount of positive information he found from the...
Media personality leaving Houston area for high-level Mormon post
MR says: Local highlight of one man recently called to the First Quorum of the Seventy. Great photo gallery at the full article. After 35 years in the Houston area - first as an Oilers' Luv Ya Blue-days quarterback and then a longtime KHOU-TV sports director - Giff Nielsen and his wife, Wendy, are heading to...
Provo ranked the most ‘flirty’ city in U.S.
MR says: Another distinction for BYU's hometown. The article makes a big deal out of political affiliation and likeliness to flirt (apparently conservatives are more likely to be flirtatious). A new study by Flirt.com shows that Provo may not only be one of the most conservative cities in the United States,...
Jewish Viewpoint: Learning from Mormons on Interfaith Marriage
MR says: A complimentary piece that admires how young Mormons approach marriage (both in and out of faith) and faith from a long-term perspective. Concludes that Mormons have an admirable confidence in their message and community. When it comes to interfaith marriage, is there anything that Jews can learn...
British Mormons take on 'The Book of Mormon'
MR says: Yay! A great, positive piece talking about the true beliefs of Mormons, as coinciding with the recent launch of the "I'm a Mormon" media campaign in the UK. Usually UK papers try to slide something horrible in the article, but not in this one. There was a moment on the red carpet outside London’s...
Newman's Own CEO commends BYU students for 'charitable motivation'
MR says: This president works on innovations to solve social problems and recently came to work with the BYU students on such projects. A recent trip to Utah filled one man with hope for the future of philanthropy. Robert H. Forrester, president and CEO of Newman's Own Foundation, traveled to BYU last week...
Boise names LDS Temple one of 150 'icons' to celebrate the city's sesquicentennial
MR says: Some nice background on the Boise Idaho Temple, which was named one of the city's icons for the sesquicentennial celebration. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' Boise Temple is the second LDS temple in Idaho, after the Idaho Falls Temple, built in 1945. Gordon B. Hinckley, who later...
Mormon Helping Hands video nominated for CNN award
MR says: Very cool. In addition to being judged, there's a "Community Choice Award" given based on votes from the public. You can see the nominated video here, and vote here.
Coming soon: A Mormon temple in Rome
MR says: A great piece from an outside source about the upcoming completion of the Rome temple. Excited to see it completed! Anticipated completion is sometime in 2014. The world’s focus turned to the Catholic Church last month, when Catholics filled St. Peter's Square to witness Pope Francis’...
HuffPost: BYU-bound Nick Emery among first Mormon athletes to go on mission at 18
MR says: A good article by a big paper. Nick Emery is a standout basketball player who was courted by lots of big schools. It's important to note that one of his teammates will also be serving a mission, though he decided to continue with his original plan to go at 19. Pres. Monson said the new age was "an option."
Business Insider: BYU #1 in US for brains and beauty
MR says: American schools were ranked by College Prowler on both smarts and hotness, and BYU is #1 (at the very bottom of the 25 top schools, since it is listed in descending order); BYU-Idaho also made the list, at #16. Brains and beauty. It's a winning combination that's hard to resist — especially in...
Transcript from an e-chat with online Mormon missionaries
MR says: A great read. It's cool to see how well spoken these Church missionaries are and how respectful this blogger is of them. I don't remember why I decided to spend the better part of one summer afternoon on Mormon.org. Maybe it had something to do with Mitt Romney; back then, the election was still the...
Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right | March 12
MR says: The latest edition of how the media got it right and wrong within the last week or so. Globe Gazette (Iowa): Mormons’ faith is centered on Jesus Christ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is centered on Jesus Christ’s “atonement and love for us.” That’s the message Elder...
California woman named to high-ranking Mormon post
MR says: This is a positive piece by a local California paper about a woman recently called to the 9-member Relief Society General Board (the woman now lives in Utah). Always good to see when the media gets things right. The way Dave Barlow remembers it, he and his wife Lorraine raised their 10 children to...
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