Ensign Online: Elder Marlin K. Jensen on Future Joseph Smith Papers Volume

Elder Marlin K. Jensen, the Church Historian and Recorder, has written an online article about an upcoming volume of The Joseph Smith Papers in the “Revelations and Translations” series in the project. According to the Ensign’s Web site, the volume “contains many of the earliest known copies of the revelations received by Joseph Smith and provides [...]

New Era Christmas Music Download: “Little Baby”

The New Era has made available an MP3 download of the Christmas song “Little Baby,” which appears as sheet music in the December issue of the New Era. This pretty tune is sung by a young female vocalist on the recording, giving it just the right feeling, I think. An instrumental version is also available [...]

Believe It to the Bone

This month’s New Era features LDS teens in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, located just north of Venezuela in the West Indies. The people there speak English, and the LDS youth have a lot in common with their counterparts in other parts of the world. In “Believe It to the Bone,” you get to know [...]

True Beauty

In this month’s New Era, Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the Seventy has a message for girls about “True Beauty.” He tries to combat the message too often reinforced by our consumer/media culture that a glamorous appearance (through clothes, cosmetics, and so on) is the measure of beauty. He even dares to suggest that good [...]