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Every single one of them should be released. Since the earliest hours of this crisis, the president has made clear he will do Everything Possible to secure the release of every hostage. During my own recent troubles in the region i am beside him urgency and importance of this to the United States and pressed partners to do everything they can to help us secure the release. Since that time we work relentlessly with partners to do just that. I cant speak publicly about the details of these efforts...

The theory that Joseph Smith Jr. employed the use of psychedelics in early Mormonism was first popularized by Robert T. Beckstead, PhD., a retired

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Maria Rosalina Chávez de Alonzo shares how she has seen The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grow in Antigua, Guatemala.

During a BYU–Hawaii devotional, Sister Amy A. Wright shared truths from Joseph Smith’s First Vision and invited everyone to seek personal revelation and understand priesthood power.

Setting my snow shovel down, I looked over the Salt Lake Valley, wondering what winter was like in 1847, when pioneer settlers were waking up and striking a fire to warm their hands. According to history, this winter is about as mild as it was 176 years ago, the year after the Saints arrival in the Salt Lake Valley. Elder Parley P. Pratt wrote in February 1848, “The winter was mild and pleasant, several light snows and severe frosts; but the days were warm, and the snows soon melted off...

At these sites, you can stay warm while learning many things about early Latter-day Saint life in Utah.

After we sent out 80,000 postcards to Latter-day Saints in the U.S., we dig deeper into their responses. Read more.

  Somehow, I failed to call attention here to this little essay, even though it was published in Meridian Magazine a full week ago.  Incidentally,

    Today is the 218th anniversary of the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith, in Sharon, Vermont.  Perhaps, had he not been born so close to the