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March 8, 2014
Why Religion Matters: Making Selves Out of Others (LDS Newsroom) (March 8, 2014) Why do people belong to religions? Some inherit a religion at birth while others may convert to one. But at one point or another people make a conscious decision whether to participate in their religious communities. In fact, the root word for religion is the Latin “religare,” which means to reconnect or bind. In an age that magnifies personal freedom, what could sound less attractive than “binding” oneself to the quirks and idiosyncrasies of a large group of people?
LDS anti-bullying video going viral (Daily Herald - Utah) (March 8, 2014) Local teenagers along the Wasatch Front are sharing the message that bullying is not OK. They are part of an LDS Church video, based on a talk given by President Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the First Presidency of the Church in April of 2012.
Letter: Good Samaritan a great example of kindness in the world (NJ.com - New Jersey) (March 8, 2014) When I attempted to give him something for his help, he refused any payment. He said that he was of the Mormon faith and quoted Scripture regarding helping others without recompense.
Unfortunately, I did not get this gentleman’s name. He was a truly Good Samaritan and what an example of goodness in the world today. My brother and I felt so blessed.
March 7, 2014
Church Issues Statements on Status of Missionaries in Ukraine and Venezuela (LDS Newsroom) (March 7, 2014) Given the evolving situation in Ukraine, twenty-two missionaries serving in that country will end their missions early and return home over the next few days. This includes missionaries originally scheduled for release in March and April of this year, and allows the four missions in Ukraine to better accommodate the missionaries who were moved out of the Crimean Peninsula.
Teen Wakes From Coma When Family Sings Hymns (ABC News) (March 7, 2014) A college student who reportedly went into a coma after being struck by a car last week woke up after her family and friends started singing hymns by her hospital bedside, and her mom is calling it “an amazing miracle.”
Mormon women seek a growing role in church (UPI) (March 7, 2014) In response to an article in the New York Times Sunday, in which church leaders said they were interested in enlarging the role of women, Mormon women sent requests published in the newspaper.
March 6, 2014
A Series of Chance Events Connects Relatives at RootsTech (Church News and Events) (March 6, 2014) Hayley Elizabeth Heineken of Carlsbad, California, joined the Church four years ago. She is the only Latter-day Saint in her family. Just a few weeks ago she decided to get going on her family history work, which led to her attendance at RootsTech 2014. Her journey to the conference unfolded as a series of fortunate events that eventually connected her with a relative she never knew existed.
Kirby: The truth about Mormon tithing (Salt Lake Tribune - Utah) (March 6, 2014) Tithing is paid by check or cash directly to a member of the bishopric. The person fills out a little donation slip, puts in the money and gives it away. That’s all there is until the end of the year when we have something known as "tithing settlement."
March 5, 2014
‘Mormon Messages’ 36M views and growing (BYU Universe) (March 5, 2014) The short and simple Mormon Messages are still going strong across the globe more than five years after debuting. Rarely exceeding five minutes, these short messages created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints address a range of topics including developing faith in Jesus Christ, the importance of families, strengthening marriage, understanding the purpose of life and finding hope.
VIDEO: New Mormon Message on Bullying Resonates With Global Audience (LDS Newsroom) (March 5, 2014) A new Mormon Messages video that focuses on bullying in the digital age is striking a chord with audiences on the Mormon Channel and on social media channels. The film, produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was posted on the Mormon Channel’s YouTube channel on Friday, 28 February 2014. On Tuesday morning, the views were close to 180,000 with hundreds of shares.
Picturing history: Early LDS missionaries visited cultural sites in London (Deseret News - Utah) (March 5, 2014) The first two missions of some of the apostles to Great Britain had an enormous impact on Latter-day Saint history. The sites where the remarkable events of those Mormon missions unfolded are beautiful and rife with meaning. It is of interest to note that, on occasion, those early missionaries visited sites that have been visited by countless millions over the years.
March 4, 2014
Mormonism in the News: Getting It Right (LDS Newsroom) (March 4, 2014) After working on the story for several months, The New York Times published a 4,500-word article on Saturday, 1 March, triggered by the surge in numbers of female missionaries serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since the minimum age for service for women was dropped from 21 to 19.
March 3, 2014
Elder Neil L. Andersen: ‘A classroom of faith, hope and charity’ (LDS Church News) (March 3, 2014) Classrooms of faith, hope and charity will help the young people of the Church develop their faith in Christ, said Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles during a broadcast to educators in the Church Educational System originating from the Tabernacle on Feb. 28. More than 45,000 teachers and associates in 137 countries listened in through a satellite broadcast.
Mormons: People don't get own planets in afterlife (AP) (March 3, 2014) The Mormon Church is pushing back against the notion that members of the faith are taught they'll get their own planet, a misconception popularized in pop culture most recently by the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon."
February 28, 2014
Honoring faith, 12,000 strong (The Republic - Arizona) (February 28, 2014) Nearly 12,000 young people in a sea of blue, green, yellow and red fanned across Discovery Park last weekend against the backdrop of the new Mormon Gilbert Arizona Temple. In unison, they sang a promise to “Live True” to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during a rehearsal of a cultural celebration Saturday preceding the temple’s dedication.
Mormons in the Olympics: 3 medals for LDS athletes at the Winter Games (Deseret News - Utah) (February 28, 2014) Mormon athletes competing in the 2014 Winter
Olympics accounted for two silver medals and one
bronze medal during the games in Sochi, Russia.
• Noelle Pikus-Pace, 31, of Eagle Mountain, Utah, took
silver in the women’s skeleton in her and her family’s
search for that once-elusive Olympic medal. Pikus-Pace
narrowly came in fourth in the 2010 Vancouver Games
before retiring. She came back for a run at Sochi.
• Australia’s Torah Bright took silver in the women’s
snowboard halfpipe. The 27-year-old, who lives part
time in Utah and trains there, competed in three
women’s snowboard events.....• Chris Fogt, 30, of Alpine, Utah, was the brakeman on
the bronze-medal-winning USA-1 Night Train 2 sled
with driver Steve Holcomb.
Mormons chime in against Arizona’s religious-freedom bill (Salt Lake Tribune - Utah) (February 28, 2014) The Utah-based LDS Church has taken no official stance on Arizona’s hotly disputed and now-vetoed religious-freedom bill, but more than 100 Mormons sure have.
They’re against it — and said so in an open letter this week to Gov. Jan Brewer and state legislators, according to a blog on the Human Rights Campaign website.
No, People Don't Get Own Planets in Afterlife Like in 'Book of Mormon' (ABC News / Associated Press) (February 28, 2014) The Mormon Church is pushing back against the notion that members of the faith are taught they'll get their own planet in the afterlife, a misconception popularized in pop culture most recently by the Broadway show "The Book of Mormon."
A newly-posted article affirms the faith's belief that humans can become like God in eternity, but says the "cartoonish image of people receiving their own planets" is not how members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints envision it.
Did dispatch delay contribute to death of BYU student? (Deseret News - Utah) (February 28, 2014) BYU student Ashleigh
Cox had just finished a day of snowshoeing with five
friends on Feb. 8 near Tibble Fork Reservoir when a
slab of snow broke free while they were walking past a
steep part of the mountain.
Four people, including Cox, were caught in the
avalanche. Three freed themselves, but it took time to
locate Cox. She died at a hospital the
next day.
Study shows why breastfed babies are so smart (BYU news release) (February 28, 2014) Loads of studies over the years have shown that children who were breastfed score higher on IQ tests and perform better in school, but the reason why remained unclear.
Is it the mother-baby bonding time, something in the milk itself or some unseen attribute of mothers who breastfeed their babies?
Now a new study by sociologists at Brigham Young University pinpoints two parenting skills as the real source of this cognitive boost: Responding to children’s emotional cues and reading to children starting at 9 months of age. Breastfeeding mothers tend to do both of those things, said lead study author Ben Gibbs.
Utah teen's life and legacy inspires Imagine Dragons to create foundation (Deseret News - Utah) (February 28, 2014) When Tyler Robinson was diagnosed with cancer, he
knew it would change his life. When he attended an
Imagine Dragons concert at a small Utah venue, he
probably didn't know it would change his life — and the
lives of many other people — as well.
"Tyler was an ordinary 16-year-old faced
with an extraordinary challenge of being
diagnosed with a rare soft tissue cancer
called rhabdomyosarcoma — stage 4,"
Tyler's parents Shannon and Brent
Robinson, of Sandy, Utah, wrote in an
email to the Deseret News.
YouTube video lands Utah teen on ‘The Voice’ (Salt Lake Tribune - Utah) (February 28, 2014) Madilyn Paige put a video on YouTube, and now she’s in the top 48 on NBC’s "The Voice."
And, yes, it was pretty much that easy for the 16-year-old from Provo, who said she’s "mostly performed in local competitions."
"I was in a competition called Vocal Sport, and I posted my video on YouTube," she said. "I guess ‘The Voice’ just got ahold of it."
The show’s talent scouts contacted her through Vocal Sport.
‘Hannibal’ producer likens KSL to Russia (Salt Lake Tribune - Utah) (February 28, 2014) The executive producer of NBC’s "Hannibal" isn’t all that upset with KSL for refusing to air his show.
"Well, because they had yanked other things that were less offensive, I didn’t take it quite as personally," said Bryan Fuller ("Pushing Daisies," "Dead Like Me," Wonderfalls").
He did, however, compare Channel 5 to Pravda, the Russian newspaper that, in the Soviet era particularly, was known for repressing the news or changing it to fit the Communist Party’s version of the truth.
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