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A Viral LDS Love Story TikTok creator Kami Skolmoski recently captured the internet’s attention with a ten-part video series detailing how she fell in love with, and eventually married, her Mormon mission companion. The article highlights both the romance of her story and the complex realities of being a queer person raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Key Highli...

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Temple Dedication  Harare Zimbabwe Temple – #214 March 1st, presided by Gerrit Gong Elder Dube left in Salt Lake Former Cultural Hall Guest (780) Sean Connolly profiled by Church News First Temple in Zimbabwe , 9th in Africa – Last Monson Temple! Temple District: 23 stakes, 6 districts in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, and Zambia  Dedicatory Prayer Temple Open House Begins Lindon Utah T...

Picturing Christ  tells the story of how Latter-day Saints and other Christians have imagined Jesus and portrayed him in art throughout history, as well as what the archaeological evidence suggests about what he might have looked like. Though what Jesus  did  is more important than how he looked, how we see him shapes us. Our assumptions about what Jesus would have looked like can have a significa...

Richard  Benjamin  Crosby  earned his PhD in communication with an emphasis in rhetoric and critical studies at the University of Washington. He is a professor of rhetoric in the Department of English at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric, religion, and politics. His work has been published in his field’s top journals, and his first major book,  America...

Jennifer Champoux is a teacher, scholar of Latter-day Saint visual art, and the director of the Book of Mormon Art Catalog. She authored C. C. A. Christensen: A Mormon Visionary, coauthored Picturing Christ: Understanding Depictions of Jesus in History and Art, and coedited Approaching the Tree: Interpreting 1 Nephi 8. She hosted the limited-series podcasts Latter-day Saint Art and Behold: Convers...

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints requires that adult members wear garments under their clothes day and night. Though a central practice, the wearing of garments exists behind a wall of silence, as Church authorities and LDS culture discourage discussion of such a sacred matter. Nancy Ross, Jessica Finnigan, and Larissa Kanno Kindred draw on a survey of over 4,500 Church members and...

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6:56 Taking the call to be President Clark 10:39 The Value of #HearingHim 14:58 This silly little thing called the web 22:55 Getting the call back to BYUI 27:48 Here’s an idea 30:27 Presidents in their own right 33:27 Rexburb – The Boston of Idaho 37:34 What is BYU Pathway 43:24 Three forms of Education 51:56 How is the Church changing The post Get to Know the Newest Apostle Clark Gilbert The Cult...

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Sacred Scar  is a luminous, unflinching collection of poems that moves effortlessly between the sacred and the everyday. Drawing on the lives of saints, pioneers, ancestors, and the poet’s own family, Scott Hales explores the way faith, memory, and suffering shape a human life. These poems travel from ancient deserts to modern suburbs, from battlefield soil to baptismal fonts, revealing how...

Temple Dedication  Alabang Philippines Temple – #213 January 18, 2026 – presided by David Bednar (Husband of Susan) The dress stole the show Dedicatory Prayer 15 Stakes and 1 District assigned to temple district Second Manila Metro Area Temple, a third is planned in Northern Manila 4th temple of 14 temples planned in the Philippines Second to last temple announced by President Monson d...

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Justin Pack’s  Grace or Money: Rediscovering the Gift of Grace in an Age of Greed  is a provocative and timely exploration of two fundamentally different ways of understanding the world: the divine “order of grace” and the human-made “order of money.” Drawing from scripture, anthropology, and philosophy, Pack challenges the modern assumption that scarcity is natural, arguing instead that God creat...

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In  Covenant Power , teacher Sharla Goettl uses captivating storytelling to bring key endowment principles to life, presented in the imagined voices of the scriptural figures who taught each principle best, such as Peter, Eve, Nephi, & Mormon. Through these stories, you’ll gain an understanding of how the endowment prepares us to receive Christ’s covenant power. They also highlight conne...

Part history, part annotated bibliography, and wholly enlightening, this book also provides an extensive catalog of the office’s diverse publications—from Sunday School cards to bound catechisms and spiritual treatises. Ideal for historians, bibliophiles, and anyone interested in the intersection of faith, media, and regional identity,  The Juvenile Instructor Office  offers fresh insights into ho...

You’re trying to figure out what you should do next. How can you make sense of a heartbreaking loss? How can you look ahead after things end unexpectedly? With every unanswered question, you lose yourself a little more. Author Ganel-Lyn Condie was facing a myriad of tough situations like these when she decided to learn how to make sourdough bread—and in the process gained a deeper love and trust o...

More of Mormonism’s canonized revelations originated in or near Kirtland than any other place. Yet many of the events connected with those revelations and their 1830s historical context have faded over time. Barely twenty-five years after the first of these Ohio revelations, Brigham Young lamented in 1856: “These revelations, after a lapse of years, become mystified [sic] to those who were not per...