by Larry Richman | Mar 7, 2014
Ever thought of setting up a charitable giving fund for your family? With a minimum of $5,000 (including tithing or other church donations), you can set up a Donor Advised Fund. This whiteboard video “One Minute Guide to Donor Advised Fund” summarizes the...
by Larry Richman | Mar 6, 2014
If you’ve seen the movie Son of God (read my review here), have you read the book? Use the movie as a conversation-starter with your friends to discuss your belief in the Bible.
by Larry Richman | Mar 6, 2014
LDS Living magazine just identified the 5 Cutest Church-Made Commercials, which are displayed below. Bad Hair Day Miss the Bus Answering Machine Cell Phone Dinner Conversation Can you think of a friend with whom you could you share these...
by Larry Richman | Mar 5, 2014
In the video “Bullying – Stop It,” Dieter F. Uchtdorf counsels us to avoid hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm. What do you think of this Mormon Messages video? Who could you share it with? And...
by Larry Richman | Mar 4, 2014
The Utah Coalition Against Pornography will hold its 12th Annual Conference on Protecting Children and Families from Pornography on Saturday, March 22, 2014, at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pornography has devastating effects throughout society....
by Larry Richman | Mar 4, 2014
An excellent resource for individual and family gospel study are the basic doctrinal principles that are the core of the youth Sunday classes. Each principle has basic doctrinal statements and scripture references. You can study each principle further by referring to...
by Larry Richman | Mar 3, 2014
This weekend, I saw the movie Son of God. It’s the larger-than-life story of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. This epic movie is well done, covering key events from Jesus’ birth through his teachings, crucifixion, and resurrection. Beyond the high-quality...
by Larry Richman | Mar 3, 2014
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses machine translation to help meet the massive demand for the translation of Church content. This article takes a look at some interesting facts regarding the use of this technology. “For it shall come to pass...
by Larry Richman | Feb 28, 2014
This article shows 3 ways to get free Kindle books. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can get a Kindle for only $69. Amazon Prime You can get Amazon Prime for $12.99/month, which lets you borrow more than 350,000 books for free with no due dates. With Amazon...
by Larry Richman | Feb 27, 2014
Discussing things with your kids now can help them be prepared for events in the future. The February issue of the Friend magazine has the following ideas for children about what to do if they see something bad on a phone, TV, computer, or game device, or in a book or...
by Larry Richman | Feb 26, 2014
Andrew Young got into filmmaking as a sponsored skateboarder making skate movies. He studied animation at BYU and went on to work at XBox making video games and DreamWorks Animation making feature animated films. But he began to see things that concerned him about the...
by Larry Richman | Feb 25, 2014
The following information is summarized from the page “Becoming Like God” in the Gospel Topics section of LDS.org (topics.lds.org). Latter-day Saints see all people as children of God in a full and complete sense; they consider every person divine in...
by Larry Richman | Feb 25, 2014
Kyle is an LDS boy in the 8th grade. And he is quite a missionary, sharing the gospel every chance he gets. He is also deaf/hard of hearing. On character dress-up days at school, he dresses as a missionary. He never backs down–even when he could be bullied because he...
by Larry Richman | Feb 24, 2014
Here is some good advice from Dave Ramsey about how to act online: Don’t post a picture or write something in social media or in a comment on an article that you would not be willing to put on a billboard on the highway. If you don’t want your mother, grandmother,...
by Larry Richman | Feb 21, 2014
The general presidents of the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary recently discussed changes that affect LDS women, young women, and girls eight years of age and older throughout the world. In the videotaped discussion “Recent Developments in the Women’s...