Hope and Healing in Recovering from Abuse

In something of a follow-up to Elder Richard G. Scott’s last general conference address, the Ensign has published an article called “Hope and Healing in Recovering from Abuse.”
Written by Sister Sarah E. Miller, a psychotherapist in the United Kingdom, this article centers around the hope and healing to be found in the Savior’s Atonement. However, [...]

Photo Gallery: Guatemala

The New Era has posted a gallery of photos from the article “From Generation to Generation” in the September issue. The article centers on two teenage members of a family in Guatemala. The photos aren’t breathtaking landscapes or stunning portraits such as those you might see in National Geographic, but they tell the story of [...]

Love, Limits, and Latitude

The August Ensign contains an article with great guidelines to common-sense parenting. “Love, Limits, and Latitude,” by Craig H. Hart, Lloyd D. Newell, and Julie H. Haupt, offers advice on avoiding parenting that is too authoritarian or too permissive, focusing instead on the love parents should show toward their children, as well as the limits they should set [...]

Ensign Survey

Let your voice be heard!
The Ensign has posted an online survey with a variety of questions about its content and layout. You can link to it from the Ensign home page. It asks questions such as the following:
The layout and design of the Ensign is: (Please mark all that apply)
❏ Modern
❏ Repetitive
❏ Fresh
❏ Too formal
❏ Appealing
❏ Dignified
❏ Old-fashioned
❏ Inviting
❏ Predictable
❏ Too idealized
❏ Other
The survey then [...]

I Almost Lost My Sister

Whether directly or indirectly, most people’s lives have been affected by someone who has suffered from some form of depression. And when someone close to you goes so far as to attempt suicide, your feelings and thoughts can range from confused to angry to guilty.
This month’s New Era includes a story called “I Almost Lost [...]

Grasshoppers, Purple Bathtubs, and Other Surprises

As we all know from reading the comments of bloggernacle denizens who studiously read the Church magazines each month, the stories in the magazines never reflect the real lives of average Latter-day Saints. They’re just pablum, eyewash, mini-sermons that are sanitized for general LDS consumption.
Well, I, of course, disagree somewhat with that assessment, and I [...]

Good Sports

Now that the 2008 Olympics have begun, the media and general public will be showing a great deal of interest in sports that haven’t been mentioned on the air or in print in, oh, I’d say about four years. The same goes for the participants. Because of this increased interest, it’s not surprising that LDS-themed [...]

Extra Smile Online

For the first time, the New Era has posted online one of the comics from its humor section, The Extra Smile. You can find it on the New Era’s home page. I’ll let you be the judge of how funny this particular comic is (the caption is on the New Era’s page). In any event, [...]

Joseph Smith’s “Forgotten” Brother

Some may know him as one of the Eight Witnesses of the Book of Mormon and one of the first missionaries of this dispensation, and others may know him as the man who brought the bodies of Joseph and Hyrum back to Nauvoo from Carthage. But in this month’s Ensign, we all get to know [...]