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BYU grad hoping family dinner will change the life of a child
In the movie "The Blind Side," an underprivileged young man known as “Big Mike” is given love and opportunity by a Good Samaritan, changing his life forever. A BYU graduate is trying to recreate a similar program for disadvantaged children. Valerie Barker, a 27-year-old BYU valedictorian...
YW Lesson 2-11: "Appreciating the Bishop"
This lesson lends itself well to local adaptation. That's a shorthand way of saying, know your girls and know your bishop, and that will tell you how to teach an entire lesson on bishop appreciation. If they're Beehives, you may want to focus on the idea of yearly interviews (of course, assuming...
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...
Warnings of cougar sightings on University of Utah campus not BYU-related
Mormon Life says: I am not really sure who thought actual cougar sightings on the U of U campus WOULD be BYU related...
Cougars sighted on the University of Utah campus Monday caused concern that had nothing to do with BYU students.
Mormon stand-ups keep their humor clean
Ask a Mormon to describe his or her favorite comedian's humor and you're bound to hear the phrase "really clean" at least once. "Clean" is usually requisite for LDS audiences, but for some Mormon comics, being clean isn't so much a concerted effort as it is an inherent part of their humor. It's...
Opposition to Mormonism started early
Many critics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints claim the advent of the Internet and free access of information created their critical view of Mormonism. A new collection of early writings about the Book of Mormon, however, demonstrates that new technology isn't a prerequisite for...
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...
Elder Hallstrom: 'The Power of Covenant'
Ordinances and covenants will help individuals know and remember what is most important in life, Elder Donald L. Hallstrom of the Presidency of the Seventy said March 9 at a BYU-Hawaii devotional assembly. "Today, I speak of [priesthood] ordinances, and especially of covenants and of their power...
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...
Callings & Self-Esteem
To build self-esteem on callings is as dangerously shallow as depending on good looks, popularity, wealth, or achievements to pull us through. All these things can fade away in time. If we are not happy and emotionally healthy without a calling in the Church or an assignment in the mission, we...
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...
Mormon Church seeks to be 'more proactive' in green-building efforts with City Creek
In some ways, the old downtown malls never went away. As the towers of the Mormon Church's City Creek Center continue to rise, construction workers are using rebar made from recycled steel. It's part of City Creek Reserve Inc.'s goal to recycle half of the steel from the old Crossroads and ZCMI...
I have Hope
Mormon Life says: This post doesn't start happy but fear not, it ends well.
I am a 40 something year old mom with five kids. I have a husband and a cat and until this morning, I had not realized that I had given up and my hope was gone. My oldest boy went on a mission two...
Eleanor and Emma
The early years in the Salt Lake Valley were years of shortages. The seagulls may have beaten back the crickets and saved part of the crop, but no seagull – nor anything else – could prevent wear and tear to a laborer’s clothing, nor produce the fabric to make new clothing. Cloth was one of the...
