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Each session of the conference again will be broadcast from the Conference Center Theater. The theater seats 850 people, but only the six to eight speakers and their spouses will attend a session with the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and their spouses. The main hall of the Conference Center holds 20,000 and traditionally is close to full for each of the five sessions of a general conference. Music for the conference will be recordings from previous general conferences. President Russell M. Nelson listens to a speaker during general conference in the Conference Center The...

This week in Mormon Land: The Capitol gang, ‘First Vision’ poems, youth theme songs David Noyce © Rick Bowmer (Rick Bowmer | AP file photo) Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks during a news conference on Oct. 15, 2020. Romney is the most prominent Latter-day Saint in the 117th Congress. The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? Latter-day Saints in Cong...

| Updated: Jan. 1, 2021, 9:13 p.m. Nearing his 90th birthday, Richard Lyman Bushman is the godfather, or, should we say, the patriarch of Mormon history. As an emeritus history professor at Columbia University, with a chair of Mormon studies named in his honor at the University of Virginia, and the author of “Rough Stone Rolling,” the much-heralded biography of church founder Joseph Smith, Bushman is revered as a gentle, thoughtful scholar, who explores the past and present of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with an evenhanded but deft touch. He is married to the inimitab...

In a year dominated by news and announcements related to COVID-19, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints not only made announcements and adjustments related to the current pandemic but also announcements and adjustments related to other aspects of worship, administration, and policy. The year 2020 marked the 200th anniversary of the First Vision, and throughout the past 12 months, Latter-day Saints continued to see the importance of a living prophet as well as continuing revelation. Here is a look at just 28 of the changes and announcements made by the Church in 2020 unrelated to th...

2020 Review Given Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In The Greater Chattanooga Area Wednesday, December 30, 2020 - by Phil Smartt Throughout 2020, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints joined with those in the greater Chattanooga area to just serve.     The year began with a focus on young missionaries, both male and female, who left their families and put their education on hold to declare the divine mission of Jesus Christ. “Jesus Christ is the Savior and Redeemer of the world. Only He is mighty to save,” the missionaries testif...