There was a time when schools were not fortresses. When families did not live in fear of the next headline. When young men brought rifles to school for a shooting club and then bowed their heads in prayer before dinner with their families. Even just a few decades ago, the …
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Health Is a Stewardship: How Babylonβs Medicine Distracts Us from Godβs Law of Health and Destroys Our Spiritual Agency
In a world where nearly every inconvenience, emotion, or bodily function is labeled a medical disorder, the vast majority of people have surrendered their health and their agency to Babylonβs system. But for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, it is clear that we were warned. …
Read More »Why Every Latter-day Saint Family Should Own an Early 1900s Encyclopedia
In a world that grows more confusing by the day, where information is abundant but true wisdom is increasingly rare, every Latter-day Saint family would benefit from having something in their home that connects them to a time when truth was treated with reverence. That something is a complete encyclopedia …
Read More »He Wanted to Sing Hymns. They Put Him on Hormones Instead. Faith, Betrayal, and Healing: The Testimony of a Detransitioned Son
A Son of God Misled by the World Miles Yardley was fifteen years old when adults around him began pressuring him to question his identity. Teachers did not guide him. Doctors did not pause. Even clergy in his life offered no real spiritual foundation. Instead, he was rushed into a …
Read More »Starting a Family Young: Trusting God’s Timing and Building Eternal Joy
Families Are at the Center of God’s Plan As Latter-day Saints, we understand that families are not temporary social units. They are eternal structures ordained by God for our growth, joy, and salvation. In The Family: A Proclamation to the World, we are taught that βthe family is central to …
Read More »The Sacred Healing Power of a Mother’s Love: Lessons from Science and Scripture
In a world that often feels fractured and hurried, there exists a force so profound, so transformative, that it can literally heal both body and soul. This force is a mother’s loveβa divine gift that mirrors the very essence of our Heavenly Parents’ love for us. Elder Gary E. Stevenson …
Read More »Unseen Heroes: How LDS Missionaries Braved the Pandemic Years
Braving the Unknown: Serving an LDS Mission During COVID 19 When a young man or woman accepts the call to serve a full time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, they step into the unknown with faith. But no generation in modern history was thrown …
Read More »Missionary in the Fight of His Life Chooses Faith Over Fear
Battling Cancer, Preaching ChristWhile most missionaries wake up thinking about lessons and service projects, Elder Spencer Blanchard begins his day with chemotherapy. Diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic neuroblastoma, he serves as a service missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from his home in the Oregon Salem …
Read More »How the 1960s Broke America: A Christian and Latter-day Saint Call to Rebuild the Family
The Decade That Declared War on Faith, Family, and Morality The 1960s were not a cultural awakening. They were a declaration of war against everything sacred. America was once a nation built on biblical values. Church attendance was high, divorce was rare, and children were raised by their own two …
Read More »The Stolen Book of Mormon Pages: What I Learned at the Grandin Printing Press
It Began with a Newspaper Clipping in Palmyra While visiting the Grandin Printing Press in Palmyra, New York, I noticed a framed clipping from an 1830 edition of The Reflector, a local paper. The display explained how the editor, Abner Cole, had printed unauthorized excerpts from the Book of Mormon …
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