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In an increasingly polarized world, what will bridge the gulf that divides us? How can such a "small and simple thing" as care for others transform us into better people than we have been? One in Charity, with featured talks from the 2016 BYU Women's Conference, supplies those answers and more.Contributors...

The Prophet Joseph Smith organized the Relief Society in 1842, championed women, and gave them personal instruction at a time when women were barely acknowledged. Despite his own life being in turmoil, he made sure to give priority to the women of the Church. In this short booklet, Sheri Dew helps...

The Temple in Time and Eternity, edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, is the second volume in the series Temples Through The Ages. The importance of the temple to a religious community of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world can scarcely be exaggerated. The eleven articles in this...

Elder M. Russell Ballard once said, “Inspired art speaks in the language of eternity, teaching things to the heart that the eyes and ears can never understand.” Students and scholars at Brigham Young University discuss art in our theology in this new publication entitled Art, Belief, Meaning....

President David O. McKay was intimately involved with the planning and construction of the Los Angels Temple, the largest temple that the Church has ever built. Its operation reflects some of the challenges the Church faced in the changing cultural climate of Southern California. This volume is a...

"When the priesthood was extended to blacks in 1978, faithful followers rejoiced and a new day dawned in Africa. Senior missionary couples soon arrived in Ghana, and within a year 400 people were baptized, many coming from congregations that were patterned after the Church and that had operated unofficially...

No longer available in print.Hymns by Eliza R. Snow—such as "O My Father," "Behold the Great Redeemer Die," and "How Great the Wisdom and the Love"—evoke powerful religious imagery. In her hymns and in her hundreds of other poems, Snow captured nineteenth-century Mormonism, where revelation...

Collected Discourses 1886-1898, Volume 4

In the mid-nineteenth century, in the growing city of Nauvoo,

Explore the story of Church growth initiated by Wilford Woodruff's missionary efforts in the mid-1800s in the "Three Counties of England," the three agrarian counties near the southeastern corner of Wales: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire. Learn how the religious, socioeconomic,...

We've all been there. Each one of us has sins that, for one reason or another, we haven't been able to fully shake—we can't get ourselves "unstuck." Yet many of us have wanted to make that permanent change, to quit those repetitive sins once and for all. So here's the million-dollar question:...

Our conversion to the Lord does not end the day we are baptized. Rather, true conversion is a lifelong pursuit. In this stellar collection of talks selected from the 2017 BYU Women’s Conference, insightful speakers help us understand how we can turn our hearts and minds more fully to the Lord and...

A favorite hymn of the Latter-day Saints supplicates Christ for His help in "every hour." And while that's certainly true, how is it true? Are we such sinners that we need constant access to Christ's Atonement? Or is there something more to the Atonement, something in addition to forgiveness for our...