Mothers, daughters: \"She knew I was stressed and I had no time, so she made me my favorite garden vegetable salad with cheese on top.\" \"She listens to what I have to say.\" \"She's a smart, strong, wonderful woman.\" View these and many more lovely sentiments about mothers in the beautiful new Mormon Messages for Youth: \"Mothers and Daughters.\"
Why I believe: Mission President Mike Murray of the Pennsylvania Philadelphia Mission just spoke at a fireside-like event last Sunday in Delaware on \"Why I Believe\" and kindly reproduced his talk for the blogging world. A snippet: \"Our missionaries are becoming Christ-like in word, deed and being. God could not let allow this to happen if the work of the missionaries was false and not His work — the work inviting others to learn of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and then join this, the only true church on the face of the earth. I testify this is His work. This is the bottom-line. And this is why I believe.\" Click to read his entire insightful testimony.
iPhone possibilities: With the iPhone 4 announcement on June 7, this blogger muses on the \"iPhone 4 Video Conference Possibilities in the Church.\" For instance, \"imagine that shut-in member who can't make it to work, but has a video conference phone. A loving home teacher at church could easily record church and stream it to them…\" or \"maybe meetings could actually be virtual.\" The possibilities are exciting!
Atonement etymology: \"When did Atonement become At-onement?\" wondered this blogger, so he did some research to see when it entered Mormon thought. The earliest he found was in 1940 (although if you scroll through the comments, one blogger found it even earlier in \"Jesus the Christ.\") Click to read a fascinating study of how this concept became more and more popular, especially in the last few decades.