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When Fort Sumter was attacked in April 1861, hundreds of soldiers were stationed at the U.S. Army’s Camp Floyd, forty miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The camp, established in June 1858, was the nation’s largest military post. Utah and the American Civil War presents a wealth of primary sources...

“Behind every good man is a good woman,” the old saying goes. How can a wife help her husband grow and progress and be a priesthood leader in the home without criticizing, nagging, or making him feel like he’s not measuring up? As a result of some wide reading, pondering, and research,...

It's understandable that some children appear bored or distracted during sacrament meeting. Many young Latter-day Saints are probably unsure about the true meaning of the sacrament and why we attend. With this in mind, bestselling author John Bytheway has composed a delightful poem (inspired by a short...

With every passing day, the unforgettable imagery in Lehi’s dream becomes more real and more relevant. In our modern world, we can literally hear the taunts and see the pointing fingers of people like those in the great and spacious building. We find ourselves clinging with greater energy to the...

John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople around the year 390 AD, was an important leader in early Christianity. His eloquent literary works focused strongly on his denunciation on the abuse of authority and his emphasis on self-discipline - submitting our will to God. His Treatise On the Priesthood...

'The Gospel Kingdom' is an authoritative collection of the teachings of President John Taylor. The book draws on the entire published record of John Taylor's works from the Nauvoo period until his death in 1887. The book also includes selections from his sermons printed in the 'Journal of Discourses'...

Leading LDS family counselors teach parents and leaders how to address problems such as depression, aging, divorce, and abuse.

EXCEPTS FROM THE PREFACE:The present is an age of progress, of change, of rapid advance, and of wonderful revolutions.The very foundations of society—social, political, commercial, moral and religious, seem to be shaken as with a mighty earthquake, from centre to circumference. All things...

Welcome to Conference Thomas S. Monson Listen The Cost—and Blessings—of Discipleship Jeffrey R. Holland Listen The Joyful Burden of Discipleship Ronald A. Rasband Listen Christ the Redeemer Carlos H. Amado Listen Protection from Pornography—a Christ-Focused Home Linda...

Ester Rasband has been known to call her new book “an anti-self-esteem book,” which typically causes laughter and perplexed looks. But in Confronting the Myth of Self-Esteem, she explains that she's not against gaining confidence. But the search for self-esteem, she says, will never bring us peace...

What is the purpose of our being? How much joy are we supposed to feel in a troubled world? Can our trials make us happier as well as stronger? If joy is the absence of sorrow or disappointment, then how could God be happy (because surely He has reasons for both!)? In this new addition to the popular...

In the book of Moses, we find what Joseph Smith entitled "extracts from the prophecy of Enoch." Dr. Hugh Nibley says of these verses: "The excerpts. . . in the Pearl of Great Price supply us with the most valuable control yet on the bona fides of the Prophet. . . We are to test. . . 'How does it compare...

The scriptures speak of a coming Millennium, of “a new heaven and a new earth.” This book, the final volume of the Prophecy Trilogy, offers startling insights into the nature of those coming changes spoken of in holy writ. Drawing on theories of modern catastrophists and the statements of latter-day...

How can a multimillion-member religious organization succeed while relying almost entirely upon a lay ministry? It is unprecedented among world religions today.The business of creating organizational and administrative structure in the Lord's work began at least as early as the time of Moses. Later,...