1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (756+ words) If you're like me, you may be anticipating problems with the May 31 Fifth Sunday lesson. It seems to me that a teacher could plan a simple, meaningful lesson to build unit cohesiveness as you celebrate the blessings of freedom together....

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (372+ words) Both Michael and Sam have shared some thoughts about how to approach the material provided by the Church as a guide to the upcoming "special 5th Sunday lesson" planned for May 31st. Those materials insist that the aim of the Church in…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (1346+ words) On Sunday, May 31, the Church has asked congregations across the United States to use the second hour to "discuss the importance of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and how these documents support religious freedom and our God-given agency....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (493+ words) The Church recently released a video/discussion guide that is to be used in Wards and Branches across the United States on May 31st. It is connected to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. I watched the video. Here are…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (969+ words) We fought an angel and finally agreed to build a temple in Mississippi. A Letter to be Read During Sacrament Meeting to Saints living in the Utah Area1 of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints It is with deepest…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (861+ words) Maybe you've seen it'a couple days ago, a pseudonymous account over on former-Twitter posted about the LDS Church's humanitarian1 efforts throughout the world. So impressive is the Church's work in this regard that, according to this account, the Church's humanitarian efforts…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1540+ words) In his October 1932 General Conference address, Apostle Richard R. Lyman prefaced his main remarks by reminding the assembled Saints that he was a staunch Prohibitionist and favored the 18th Amendment (which would be repealed a year later, with Utah providing the deciding…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (465+ words) As we Mormons all know, there is no rest after death. There is no cool glass of lemonade sitting at the end of the mortal marathon. Rather, upon the shedding of this tabernacle of clay, we will continue in the…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (488+ words) Question: How does one avoid using religion or religious language as merely a tool to justify policies that wrongly privilege one group over another? Question: As Christians, is the Gospel informing/changing/impacting the positions we take or, on the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (635+ words) When the first Mormon art propagandist, CCA Christensen, began painting Mormon history in a flat, literalistic, maudlin style, he could not have predicted that another Mormon would one day deeply influence artificial intelligence with a similar flat, literalistic, maudlin style....