God has led this Church from the beginning, by prophets and inspired men,' President Wilford Woodruff declared in 1891. 'He will lead this Church until the scene is wound up.' God's direction in leading the Church is evident in this collection of fifty treasured talks delivered by prophets, apostles, and seventies since the days of the Prophet Joseph Smith through the presidency of Howard W. Hunter. Best-Loved Talks of the LDS People includes such classic sermons as Ezra Taft Benson's memo...

In the tradition of Everyday Miracles and Everyday Heroes, this new collection of true stories reminds us that the Lord is ever ready to bless and comfort us if we keep our covenants and remain faithful. These stories will touch your heart and stir your memory, drawing forth the welcome discovery that your own life has been filled with everyday answers. Perhaps it was guidance with a particular challenge, an answer to a specific question, or a feeling of God's love. Whate...

Here's an outstanding collection of all those inspiring stories from Church history that you've heard and wanted (but couldn't find) for your class. A companion volume to Best-Loved Poems of the LDS People, Best-Loved Stories of the LDS People includes accounts of everything from Joseph Smith's childhood leg operation to David O. McKay's mission experience of learning "Whate'er Thou Art, Act Well Thy Part." More than 200 other stories are included, such as Joseph F. Smith's encounter with ...

This book distills hundreds of interesting facts of Mormonism into twelve categories of lists - Church history, General Authorities, missionaries, scriptures, and contemporary theses such as women, art, entertainment, and athletes. Use this facts-in-a-jiffy book for “gospel games,” to enliven lessons and talks, and for sheer pleasure reading.

". . . an easy to read, and clearly written, blueprint for those wishingto find the key to a richer and fuller life." — Jeffrey Needle, Association for Mormon LettersAs Latter-day Saints, we seem to share a universal desire to find meaning in everyday living and to know what we can do to improve our time in morality by focusing on what matters most. In his warm and engaging style, author Jay A Parry identifies twelve specific reasons why we were sent to earth and te...

Do miracles occur in our day?Of course they do. ‘Beyond imagination,’ wrote President Spencer W. Kimball. ‘If all the miracles of our own lifetime were recorded, it would take many library shelves to hold the books which could contain them.’Indeed, ours is a gospel of miracles. Every day we have opportunity to bear record of miraculous events--a heart changed, a prayer answered, a burden lightened, a sin forgiven. These miracles that follow the faithful are recorded in jour...

The 2020 Presidential Election in the South details how the 2020 presidential election developed in the twelve states of the South. This edited volume features preeminent scholars of Southern politics who analyze the momentous Election of 2020. In addition to chapters organized by state, this volume also focuses upon the issues that drove southern voters, the nominations process in early 2020, as well as a chapter focusing on where the region may be headed politically in the next decade. I...

How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city? And how in turn are identities and differences formed and mediated through this circulation? This seminal work is the first to offer an empirical examination, and trace a city's pattern of, news circulation.Encompassing a comprehensive range of practices involved in producing, circulating and consuming 'news' and recognizing the various ways in which individuals and groups may find out, follow and discuss local issues and eve...

Der Wind fegte über die weite Ebene, trieb Staub und welke Gräser vor sich her und ließ die Bretterbuden von Madison Creek knarren, als wollten sie sich über den neuen Tag beschweren. Ich stand auf der Veranda meines Hauses, ein schlichtes, aber solides Bauwerk aus Kiefernholz, das ich mit eigener Hand errichtet hatte, und sog die frische, kühle Morgenluft ein. Gelbe Blume, meine Frau, war schon früh aufgestanden, um das Feuer zu schüren und unser Frühstück zu bereiten. In ihrem Leib wuchs...

This landmark collection brings leading scholars in the field of political communication to debate one of the most important questions of our age: Can the media serve democracy? For the media to be democratic, they must enter into a positive relationship with their readers, viewers and listeners as citizens rather than consumers who buy things, audiences who gaze upon spectacles or isolated egos, obsessed with themselves. The media's first task is to remind people that they are inhabitants...

This book addresses key challenges facing global political communication at a time in which transformations in political practice, media ecology and cultural expectations both threaten traditional democratic norms and point to potential new ways of enacting political democracy. Drawing upon the outstanding theoretical insights of Jay Blumler to our understanding of the norms and practices of political communication, but also critically interrogating and updating them where appropriate, the...

Stories can strengthen as little else can. They can add sparkle to a talk or lesson, or deepen the sense of the Spirit. In some important ways, our very understanding of the gospel is based on stories, true stories that change the lives of those who read them and make them part of their own experience.This third volume of Best-Loved Stories of the LDS People contains some of the best true, faith-promoting stories in the Mormon experience. Following in the tradition of the ...