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Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah went from a playground basketball player in Ghana to joining the Mormon Church, playing football for BYU, and becoming a 2013 first round NFL draft pick- the story told through the eyes of the missionary and friend who baptized him.

Few of us will ever experience the extremes of face to face encounters with God and the adversary, but the principle is the same even in our less dramatic dealings with good and evil: the more frequent our experiences with light and truth, the greater our

If we take a literalist view on everything that we read in the scriptures we set ourselves up for potential testimony damage if we come to realize that the best scholarship argues that a strictly literal reading is untenable.

Why would a perfectly wise, powerful, and loving God devise a plan that rescues only a small fraction of His children while abandoning the bulk of humanity without even a chance at glory?

I want to emphasize how basically inherent the Church is to me. For it is the Church that stands uniquely revealed in the Doctrine and Covenants. Our theological personal reflections presuppose the very important fact that our membership in the Church is

From time to time, I mourn the weaknesses that linger with me like an unwelcome guest. Just when I feel I have gained an advantage, a trigger awakens them and they assault me more. Sometimes I feel that I will never be rid of them. What can be done?

The 17th Annual Southern Virginia University Education Conference, with presenters including Elder Marlin K. Jensen, and Julie B. Beck, will be held Friday and Saturday, June 7-8, on the university’s campus in Buena Vista, Va.

The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that we should be looking forth to the Second Coming of Christ whether in this life or the next: "I will prophesy that the signs of the coming of the Son of Man are already commenced."

I was sometimes an unsympathetic older sister. I was the kind who painted my eight and nine-year-old brothers’ fingernails red after they’d gone to sleep. Despite such adolescent romping, my parents worked very hard to help us feel unity in our family.