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The London England Temple (LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cRootsTech Hosts International Conference in London:\u00a0Thousands participate in groundbreaking event to discover and connect with family\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe big picture of how London is the gateway for RootsTech\u2019s global reach\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cElder Bednar, a centuries-old church, Donny Osmond and Twister wrap up RootsTech London\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cGroundbreaking Held for International African American Museum:\u00a0Church donation to help support Center for Family History\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you don\u2019t know history, you don\u2019t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn\u2019t know it is part of a tree.\u201d \u00a0(Michael Crichton)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cTo forget\u00a0one\u2019s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.\u201d \u00a0(reputed Chinese proverb)<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSite Announced for Moses Lake Washington Temple: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> has announced the location of the Moses Lake Washington Temple.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I really, really liked this brief video of President M. Russell Ballard and Elder D. Todd Christofferson and Sister Christofferson together back at the Joseph Smith Birthplace in Vermont. \u00a0It\u2019s not quite three minutes long, and I hope that you\u2019ll \u00a0take the time to watch it:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBirthplace of a Prophet: President Ballard, Elder Christofferson testify\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Muslim woman notices the casually assumed anti-Mormonism that afflicts certain \u201cprogressive\u201d types in Salt Lake City:<\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/i>Luna Banuri: Rocky Anderson\u2019s attack on Mormonism feels all too familiar to Muslims\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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A new entry on the Neville-Neville Land <\/em>blog<\/a> (\u201cRefuting the errors of Jonathan\u00a0Neville and the Heartland\u00a0hoax\u201d), which relentlessly chronicles the bizarre accusations and weird contentions of Mr. Jonathan Neville, a vocal (and increasingly insulting) proponent of the so-called \u201cHeartland model\u201d of Book of Mormon geography:<\/p>\n

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\u201cApparently, people who disagree with Jonathan Neville are followers of Satan\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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A south-looking view of part of the campus of Brigham Young University, from the BYU website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Responding to the latest ranking \u2014 we\u2019re number one for the twenty-second year in a row! \u2014 from The Princeton Review<\/em>: \u00a0\u201cCelebrating 22 Years Stone Cold Sober:\u00a0BYU\u2019s new Milk & Cookies bar will serve new milk flavors including raspberry, pumpkin spice, French vanilla and root beer\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Many years ago, when I first joined the faculty of Brigham Young University, I found myself speaking one day with a visiting professor, not a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who was teaching in another department. \u00a0I asked him what struck him most about his teaching experience at BYU, and his answer surprised me just a little bit: \u00a0He was astonished that his students were cheery and awake on Monday mornings. \u00a0Back at his home campus, Monday morning classes were essentially a waste of time, he said, because his students were typically hung over from the weekend\u2019s revels. \u00a0(Incidentally, the thing that struck him most about Utah more generally was how many people spoke unexpected languages and had lived in exotic locales. \u00a0He quite often encountered clerks and rural service station attendants who just happened to speak Thai or Portuguese or Finnish, to have spent two years living in Seoul or Tokyo or Stockholm, and so forth.)<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cRootsTech Hosts International Conference in London:\u00a0Thousands participate in groundbreaking event to discover and connect with family\u201d \u00a0 \u201cThe big picture of how London is the gateway for RootsTech\u2019s global reach\u201d \u00a0 \u201cElder Bednar, a centuries-old church, Donny Osmond and Twister wrap up RootsTech London\u201d \u00a0 \u201cGroundbreaking Held for International African American Museum:\u00a0Church donation 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