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Glenn Beck's advice on 'social justice' churches sparks outrage
Mormon Life says: Warning: this post ends with some misconceptions about our Church (mainly that Mormons don't believe in the bible.)
Anti-poverty Christian groups are up in arms after popular political commentator Glenn Beck urged Christians to leave their church if it talks about social justice. Beck, a Mormon, said the word...
BYU is 'most popular school' U.S. News says
As long as he can remember, Dalton Griner knew he would come to BYU. "Ever since I was little, BYU was it for me," the 18-year-old Sandy native said. So when his long-shot application to Princeton was accepted, he was flattered and excited — but not swayed. Students like Griner and Cody Pettit...
Orson Scott Card: Do it anyway
Mormon Life says: This is great advice.
Martina McBride, one of the great country voices, sings a deceptively simple lyric in the song "Do It Anyway." She gives several examples of actions that can seem futile -- building something...
Marie Osmond: My Mormon Faith Got Me Through Son's Death
Marie Osmond told a Las Vegas Strip audience as she returned to the stage less than two weeks after her son's apparent suicide that she has relied on her spirituality to cope with his death "Little did I know I would be relying on my faith, especially as much as I did this past week," Osmond...
The writing of "Lord, I would follow thee"
Mormon Life says: A really cool inside look into the writing of this popular hymn.
Sometimes Heavenly Father sends us opportunities that nearly take our breath away, and require that we gather everything we are, or desire to be -- everything we have accomplished or are praying for...
BYU-Idaho serves record number of students in 2009
A record 22,997 students attended Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2009, continuing the university's steady increase in enrollment since becoming a four-year institution in 2001. A major reason for the university's enrollment growth is the three-track system, which offers three distinct 14-week...
BYU women's basketball team shows they don't have to play on Sundays to win
Huddled in a news conference on a Sunday afternoon in a basketball arena in Ames, Iowa, a handful of reporters from around the country were stunned -- eyebrows raised and mouths agape. They couldn't believe what they were hearing on that March day in 2002. Dressed in Sunday-best attire, a couple...
High Fashion Meets High Standards
52 Young Women from seven different high schools came together for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to walk the runway in a fashion show put on by professional stylists, makeup artists, hair stylists, and 25 local vendors to celebrate “fashionable modesty”. Walking a 40 foot runway to the pulsating...
Elder Glenn L. Pace: The divine nature and destiny of women
Mormon Life says: Wish I could have heard the whole of his message.
Women have a sacred role in the sanctification and purification of men, Elder Glenn L. Pace of the Seventy told students and faculty during the campus devotional in the Marriott Center at BYU on...
If Glenn Beck followed his own instructions, he’d be an ex-Mormon
Mormon Life says: Not sure this is what Glenn Beck meant to say but this is interesting either way.
Well known LDS political pundit Glenn Beck recently told his radio listeners that they should leave churches with the words “social justice” or “economic justice” on their websites: I beg you,...
Brazil missionary, convert rejoice together after 45 years
Mormon Life says: This is really very touching.
When Curtis Broadbent was a Mormon missionary in Brazil in the early 1960s, he met a teenager named Aldo Francesconi. Broadbent taught Francesconi, who was baptized just before he turned 17, and...
President Monson speaks at the funeral for Marie Osmond's son
Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son was remembered at a funeral service Monday with fond words, laughter and music from his famous singing family. Michael Bryan was memorialized by six of his seven siblings as a lighthearted person with a brilliant sense of humor who had a kind and generous...
CBS News: Trouble for Mitt Romney? Mass. Health Plan Covers Abortion
Mormon Life says: This is a tough issue and will be interesting to see how Mitt Romney navigates it if he runs for U.S. President.
Mitt Romney's role in overseeing passage of a universal health care plan in Massachusetts appears likely to cause headaches for the former Republican governor should he make his widely-expected run...
Bishop Burton explains Church philosophy on buying Utah real estate
When the Mormon Church recently purchased 13 acres near 400 South and Main Street in Salt Lake City, some wondered if the church was "expanding" its traditional buffer around Temple Square. Church leaders, however, didn't see it that way. "Someday, the south end of Salt Lake City is going to be...
President Eyring: As Church grows, what is taught remains the same
Though the number of students in the Church Educational System continually grows, President Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency told CES instructors that what is to be taught remains the same. ...In his address about teaching, President Eyring said students cannot be fortified with "a sure...
