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SNIP Young women, their mothers and leaders recently participated in the annual Young Women meeting in the Conference Center and in thousands of meetinghouses across the world. The Church’s Young Women organization provides instruction, encouragement and support in living the gospel of Jesus Christ for teenage girls ages 12 to 17. SNIP The Young Women program emphasizes eight values — faith, divine nature, individual worth, knowledge, choice and accountability, good works, integrity and virtue — each represented by a different color, as in these flags...

OREM, Utah -- A mother loses everything. A suffering god defies the taunts of Furies. Brother stands against brother -- with a kiss. I'm listening to Terryl Givens, a University of Richmond professor of literature and religion, as he recounts some stories in literature where God utterly fails. You can do this sort of thing in literature -- it is fiction, after all. Givens, who is speaking to a group at the seventh annual meeting of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology on March 25, recognizes the value of literature for exploring ideas. Deep ideas -- like trying to...

I have been told, here at FR, that God only creates lesser beings. Is this because he chooses not to create someone equal to Himself, or is God unable to create someone equal to Himself?