Pioneer Day was celebrated the old-fashioned way Thursday afternoon in American Fork, as children participated in games and activities Latter-day Saints settlers would have played when they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 178 years ago. Parents and grandparents watched kids enjoy the ...
I was on my mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in late 2004 when the 9.1 to 9.3 earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated Indonesia. I remember going out to knock doors that night and talking to a college student who wondered how there could be a God when such ...
Several religious organizations spoke out in support of the local Hindu community after the Krishna Temple near Spanish Fork was the target of an alleged hate crime. Around 20-30 shots were reportedly fired at the temple near Spanish Fork across multiple nights in June, damaging the edifice ...
A few weeks ago, I was trying to figure out why President Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, chose to dedicate the Syracuse Utah Temple. It was only the second temple he had dedicated since he dedicated the Rome Italy Temple in March 2019 and the ...
Jehovah’s Witnesses are known by many for their door-to-door proselytizing and brochures they distribute that explain their religious beliefs. A lesser-known element of the faith group, according to Jehovah’s Witnesses spokesperson Michael Overholt, is that it is one of the largest ...
When I think of the word ‘worship,’ I think of treating something with god-like reverence. I think we’ve all heard the phrase, “worship the ground” someone walks on. It means that there is a god-like reverence for someone, so much so that even the ground they walk on is worthy of ...
