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• Relief Society
  [[Category: Women in Mormonism]][[Category:Church Callings and Leadership]] ...lt=Mormon Relief Society Seal|The official seal of the Relief Society, the women's organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]
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• International Growth
  ...cuses on the adaptations that accompanied growth and internationalization. In surveying recent developments, it provides an introduction to the contempor ...y Church members and also those of other faiths (Ludlow, ''Encyclopedia of Mormonism'', p. 639).
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• MormonWiki Articles
  ...ed and modified. We sincerely hope the following articles will be helpful in learning about the Church of Jesus Christ. [[Beliefs of Mormonism]] ·
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• Mountain Meadows massacre
  ...history took place on 11 September, [[1857]], when approximately 120 men, women and children, traveling through Utah to California were massacred by a forc ...Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo following the end of the Mexican-American War in early 1848. (The treaty ceded all of what would become California, Nevada,
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• Contemporary Developments
  ...l fastest growing church] in the world, though that applies only to growth in terms of internal percentage, not sheer numerical growth. Nevertheless, t ...ince 1830 and opened up the work in Armenia and Ukraine. Latter-day Saints in Tonga celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Church there.
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• Jesus Christ
  [[Image:Jesus_Christ.jpg|frame|alt=Jesus Christ is the central figure in Mormon doctrine|Jesus Christ is the central figure of Latter-day Saint doct ...he Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross can mortal men and women be saved in the Kingdom of God. Jesus Christ and His teachings are the central focus of
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• Apostasy, Reformation, and Restoration
  [[Image:Adam Eve Altar Mormon.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=Jesus Christ Mormonism|right|Adam and Eve at the altar]] ...scended upon him, and thus he was born of the Spirit, and became quickened in the inner man. And he heard a voice out of heaven, saying: Thou art baptize
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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...e Savior during His ministry; relayed through ancient prophets as recorded in scripture; restored through the prophet [[Joseph Smith]]; and continued thr ...em that this Messiah would be the Christ, and that he would live and teach in Judea. The Book of Mormon peoples received signs of His birth and crucifixi
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• Mother in Heaven
  In the 1995 statement “The Family: A Proclamation To The World,” the [[Fir :ALL HUMAN BEINGS—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of ''heavenly pa
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• Thomas B. Marsh
  ...esus Christ of Latter-day Saints] in July 16, 1857, but never again served in church leadership positions. ...was James Marsh. His mother was Mary Law. He spent his early life farming in Westmoreland, New Hampshire.
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• John C. Bennett
  ...t, who acted as second-in-command to Joseph Smith, Jr., for a brief period in the early 1840s.” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Bennett] ...y A. Baker on 9 January 1826. About 1827, he joined Pickaway Masonic Lodge in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio. At first he was affiliated with the Met
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• Eliza R. Snow
  ...nt day LDS hymnal and was one of the most celebrated [[Mormon Women|Mormon women]] of the nineteenth century. ...in life when she began submitting her classroom assignments to her teacher in rhyme.
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• Mormons and Memorial Day
  ...celebrate their freedoms, as well as pay honor and tribute to the men and women who have served, and who now valiantly serve to defend those freedoms. ...to clean off Civil War-era headstones at The Union Burial Society Cemetery in Frankfort, Illinois.
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• Lucy Mack Smith
  ...e emotional import of Lucy's original writings, which were severely edited in the 1853 version: ''The Revised and Enhanced History of Joseph Smith by His ...th secular and religious writers were extolling the influence and power of women over the moral direction of society.
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• Finances of the Church of Jesus Christ
  ...de church and the fourth largest religion (at 2 percent of the population) in the United States, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_St ...owed the prophet, [http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org Joseph Smith] to stay in their homes when necessary for him to work on scriptural translations.
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• Mormon Retrenchment Association
  ...n.<ref> Carol Cornwall Madsen, "Retrenchment Association," Encyclopedia of Mormonism, [1992] 1223-1225. </ref> ...Association for women was similar to the [[Relief Society]]—the official women’s organization of The Church of Jesus Christ—and yet was entirely separ
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• Proclamations and Statements
  ...lamation on the family was a way of reaffirming the doctrine of the family in God's plan." ..., faith, and history; warnings of judgments to come; invitations to assist in the work; and statements of Church growth and progress."
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• African Mormons
  ...ttp://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. In fact, one Jewish man commented upon a ''New York Times'' review of the play ...y). This sort of thing happens to those of my faith in countries elsewhere in the world. But I cannot believe that New York, MY New York, where I was bor
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• Mormon Should Mean "More Good"
  ...the world, as well as in your homes. It is a beautiful autumn morning here in the valley of the mountains where almost a century and a half ago, after mu We meet in the name of the Lord [[Jesus Christ]], the [[Savior]] and Redeemer of manki
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• Creation
  ...rist of Latter-day Saints] (sometimes erroneously called Mormons) have a [[Mormonism vs. Christianity|Christian]] view of the '''creation''' of the earth and ma ===A Council in Heaven===
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• Paradise
  ...—teaches that paradise is that part of the [[Spirit World|spirit world]] in which the righteous spirits who have departed this life await the resurrect ...he-faith/plan-of-salvation?lang=eng] It is important to note that the time in paradise or spirit prison is temporary. It is not the final judgment.
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• Young Women2
  ...yourselves unhappy, but to live so you may be truly happy in this life and in the life to come."1 ...e a general [[Young Women]] presidency, which oversees all the Young Women in the world.
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• Anti-Mormon
  ...s, sometimes nicknamed "Mormons." The differentiating factor is that those in the anti-Mormon camp undertake to assault and vilify the Church of Jesus Ch ...f Jesus Christ as either a threat or a cult, and secular humanists who see in the Church a discomfiting paradox of American determination and anti-ration
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• The Latter-day Saint View of Jesus Christ
  ...d, taking upon Himself the sins of all mankind, if they would only believe in Him and repent. Latter-day Saints believe that Christ was the first fruits [[Image:Jesus-fishermen-mormon.jpg|250px|thumb|alt=Jesus Christ Mormonism|left]]
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• Profanity
  ...vain, foul language and bad language are all synonyms for '''profanity'''. In a world where these words are becoming all-too-common, is profanity really [[Image:Mormonism_no_profanity.jpg|350px|thumb|alt=Mormonism no profanity|right]]
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• Jane Manning James
  ...h of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]. She was born on 22 September 1822 in Wilton, Connecticut, one of five children of Isaac and Phyllis Manning, a f ...reach, she embraced the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and spared no time in sharing the Good News with her family. She became a member of the Church no
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• Bonnie D. Parkin
  ...rkin's wish was for every woman in the Church to feel the love of the Lord in their lives every day. ...ntary education and early childhood development from Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
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• Mormon Youth
  [[Image:mormon-education3.jpg|left|350px|alt=Mormon youth in a church seminary class]] ...tors looking worriedly toward the fall, when school-year youth groups kick in....A decade ago teens were coming to church youth group to play, coming for
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• Belle S. Spafford
  ...members, largely in the western United States, to nearly 1 million members in 65 countries. Belle was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to John Gibson Smith and Hester Sims Smith on 8 Octob
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• Blood Atonement
  In June of 2010 the [[General Authorities]] of [[The Church of Jesus Christ of :"In the mid-19th century, when rhetorical, emotional oratory was common, some c
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• Monument to Women Memorial Garden
  ...tional women’s roles. It is located behind the Nauvoo Visitors’ Center in Nauvoo, Illinois, and owned by [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jes ...oo Temple Square as possible.’”[https://rsc.byu.edu/eye-faith/monument-women-memorial-garden]
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• Sexual Sins
  ...y—are “all sexual relations outside of marriage.”<ref>See "Chastity" in Gospel Topics at churchofjesuschrist.org. </ref> ...deliberately dwelling on sexual thoughts; and talking or texting about sex in an explicit manner with the intent of arousing sexual feelings.<ref>See For
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• Young Women
  [[Category: Women in Mormonism]][[Category: Youth and Children]][[Category:Church Callings and Leadership] ...ntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints] was founded in 1869. All Latter-day Saint females age 12–17 are members of this organiza
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• Mormon Doctrine: The Rapture
  ...caught up to meet Him in the air, and that the graves of the dead who died in Christ will be opened and these elect people will be instantly resurrected [[Image:Second_Coming.jpg|300px|thumb|alt=Second Coming of Christ Mormonism|left]]
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• Sarah Melissa Granger Kimball
  ..., ward [[Relief Society]] president for forty years, and a strong presence in the history of [http://comeuntochrist.org The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ...age to say what she thought," Sarah Kimball labored for the advancement of women, arguing that "education and agitation are our best weapons of warfare" (Wo
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• Mormon Beliefs: Prophets
  ...ut a prophet's main role is not to foresee the future, but to call men and women to repentance and to preside over God's kingdom on earth. Many people, whe ...eavesdrop on the Book of Mormon prophet, Alma, as he explains resurrection in around 73 B.C:
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• Post-Civil War Persecution
  ===Post Civil War attempts to eradicate Mormonism=== ...They campaigned for women’s rights and established the first hospitals in Utah.
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• Beliefs and rituals of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ
  ...inciples and ordinances) intended to bring individuals closer to God, for "In the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest" (Doctrine and C ...gh one in purpose, in thought, in action, in works, etc. Further, men and women are viewed as His spirit sons and daughters, with the literal ability to be
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• Sunday School
  ...imes casually called the Mormon Church, that provides instruction to youth in each age group starting at 12 years old, as well as to adults. Until Januar ...ve become accustomed to thinking of “church” as something that happens in our meetinghouses, supported by what happens at home. We need an adjustment
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• Gladys Knight
  ...our full potential and recognize our common humanity. I join the president in congratulating and thanking them.”[ ...soulfulness that has stood the test of time.”[https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3568667-u2-george-clooney-gladys-knight-lead-list-of-kennedy-cente
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• Those Beautiful Mormon Girls
  My husband and I have had the opportunity to live for many years abroad in various countries while our children were growing up. Because we are membe ...covenant with Israel not to teach, preach, or even answer questions about Mormonism. Every student who studies at the Center makes this promise anew.
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• Emma Hale Smith
  Emma was born on 10 July 1804, the seventh of nine children, and grew up in Harmony, Pennsylvania. She was well-educated and even had an extra year of Emma met Joseph Smith for the first time in 1825. Joseph was smitten with her, which wasn’t surprising since she had
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• Mormonism and the Christian Creeds
  The history and evolution of Christian creeds began in the discord, divisions, and confusion over doctrines that plagued the ancie ...the fractures within Christianity. Some Christian denominations use creeds in their worship services, some don’t. For others, the adherence to a partic
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• Mary Ann Angell
  ...Young's first wife, [[Miriam Works Young|Miriam Angeline Works]], had died in 1832. ...nce, Rhode Island, when she was young. Her mother left her abusive husband in 1831 and moved with her two children to China, New York. A year after their
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• Emmeline B. Wells
  ...ls. She was born on February 29, 1828, to David and Deiadama Hare Woodward in Petersham, Massachusetts. Emmeline's father died when she was just four ye ...tney Family, Emmeline left Nauvoo and made the trek west to Utah Territory in 1846.
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• Barbara B. Smith
  ...trated sound judgment and tolerance during a time of intense conflict over women’s issues from 1974 to 1984. ...n to be involved in their communities and represent Church attitudes about women without being combative or divisive. She also emphasized homemaker educatio
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• Westward Migration
  ...s from Nauvoo, Illinois on the Mississippi River, to the Salt Lake Valley, in Utah. They were literally driven out of their own country since Utah was t ...adership of [[Samuel Brannan]], bound for Yerba Buena (now San Francisco), in California, from where they would make the trek to Utah. The journey lasted
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• Julie B. Beck
  ...en]] general presidency prior to receiving her call to direct the Church's women's service organization. ...Beck and her husband have two daughters and one son. They currently reside in Alpine, Utah. For a period of about five years, she and her husband served
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• Shannon Hale: Mormon Author
  ...ersity of Montana. Before she published her first book, she pursued acting in television, stage, and improvisational comedy. ...at [[Brigham Young University]] in 2015. She has published two bestsellers in that series entitled ''Princess Academy: Palace of Stone'' and ''Princess A
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• Amy Brown Lyman
  ...Latter-day Saints, often mistakenly called the Mormon Church. She served in this position from 1940 - 1945.''' She was born on February 7, 1872, in Pleasant Grove, Utah, to John and Margaret Zimmerman Brown. Margaret was Jo
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