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Meet ‘Mahana’: ‘Lingo’ leads actress to lifelong fame

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: [/caption] Naomi Kahoilua Wilson insists that making the Mormon film “Johnny Lingo” in 1969 was more like a huge Polynesian luau — fun coming above film formalities. She’s a reliable witness. She was Mahana. She still is, since the role [...]

BYU students solve Mormon mysteries

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: BYU students solve Mormon mysteries By Christine Rappleye Mormon Times Published: 2010-03-04 00:20:22 PROVO, Utah — The questions usually start simply enough. As the full-time editors of each volume of the Joseph Smith Papers program comb through the journals, histories [...]

Cardinal George Addresses Religious Freedom in Speech at BYU

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: [/caption] SALT LAKE CITY 23 February 2010 Catholics and [...]

Golden Plates goes on Display

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The world’s oldest multiple-page book – in the lost Etruscan language – has gone on display in Bulgaria’s National History Museum in Sofia. It contains six bound sheets of 24 carat gold, with illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. [...]

Utah Ranked 2nd highest in Church attendance- behind Mississippi

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Only 22% of Alaskans say they attend religious services at least once a week, making Alaska the least religious state judged by this measure. In Utah and several Southern states, more than half of those surveyed by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life said they were weekly [...]

LDS add mission in Utah; cut back in Europe, elsewhere

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: By Peggy Fletcher Stack The Salt Lake Tribune Updated: 02/12/2010 09:59:19 PM MST // < ![CDATA[ [...]

Returning to Church after the Quake – Haiti

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: M E R I D I A N     M A G A Z I N E Haiti: Returning to Church after the Quake By Maurine Proctor Photography by Scot Facer [...]

New Mormon Battalion Historic Site Opens

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: [/caption] SAN DIEGO 2 February 2010 Visitors will [...]

The Milk & Strippings Story, Thomas B. Marsh, and Brigham Young

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: [/caption] Thomas B. Marsh and his wife Elizabeth were baptized on September 3, 1830, and were therefore among the earliest members of the church. (Dan Vogel calculates that they were the 55th and 56th members, preceding all the future apostles save for William Smith and the [...]

Mormon historical documents create auction buzz

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: [caption id="attachment_3689" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="No. 575: Charles Brewer, an assistant surgeon in the U.S. 10th Infantry, wrote a friend about the Mountain Meadows Massacre in this 1859 letter, acquired in an auction by the LDS Church this week."Evidence of murders too horrible to be told & perpetrated by the [...]