A Lutheran bishop's perspective on Mormon baptism for the dead

An Ohio church is offering a drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners pressed for time or reluctant to come inside the church for the Lenten observance. Read more »

Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell Plan B or other emergency contraceptives, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the state's true goal was to suppress religious objections by... Read more »

The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on... Read more »

Editor's note: LDSLiving recently featured an article by Anthony Sweat and John Hilton III, co-authors of "WHY?" and "HOW?" Sweat and Hilton share six questions that LDS teens frequently ask and... Read more »

Police don't travel far to monitor the goings-on at the Gami Temple at the edge of the Tibetan plateau. The police station sits inside the monastery, just outside the gates to the main prayer hall. Read more »

Israel gave preliminary approval on Wednesday to a plan to build 600 new homes in a settlement deep inside the West Bank, a move that drew rebukes from the United Nations and Palestinians and... Read more »

Catholics marked the beginning of Lent with Ash Wednesday Mass Read more »

The bride wore a white dress. The groom a traditional Scottish kilt. People magazine has the exclusive photos from Elizabeth Smart's last-minute marriage in Hawaii. Read more »

Every morning in every Utah public school class, students may be required by law to stand, put their hands over their hearts and recite the Pledge of Allegiance, under legislation that advanced... Read more »

Purim has been summed up in this way: They tried to kill us, we won, so let's eat! Read more »

Last week I stumbled across something wonderfully eye-opening. But you'll need to hang with me for a moment while I set the stage. Read more »

This home on the northeast corner of Munson and Partridge streets in Nauvoo, Ill., once belonged to Elder Heber C. Kimball. Because of the Saints' exodus from Nauvoo to the West, the Kimball family... Read more »

The first German edition of the Book of Mormon came off the press in Hamburg, Germany, on May 25, 1852. It was among the first foreign-language editions of the Book of Mormon in LDS Church history. Read more »

The Pacific Islands span multiple languages and a variety of translation stories. From Tongan to Maori, from as early as the 1840s through today, translating the Book of Mormon for faithful members... Read more »

Bogged down with knowing you should compile your family history but can't (or don't want to) find the time? We'll show you several different ideas that will make it a project that's fun and... Read more »

What special message does President Monson have for children in this newest Mormon Message? Also, can Mormons appreciate Lent? And one Mormon refused to wear a shirt and tie to work, so what does... Read more »

The U.N. nuclear agency acknowledged renewed failure Wednesday after a trip to probe suspicions of covert Iranian nuclear weapons work, in a statement issued just hours after an Iranian general... Read more »

Amid the towering golden spires of Myanmar's grandest Buddhist shrine there was talk of politics and hope for the future as thousands came Wednesday for the return of an annual festival that was... Read more »

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's top religious partner said Wednesday that Israel's ruling coalition would not be shaken by the Supreme Court's annulment of a contentious law allowing... Read more »

Americans living and working in New Jersey's largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department's effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray.... Read more »