by Larry Richman | Jan 25, 2012
The Friend magazine is introducing new features in the magazines in 2012. These new features will help children and leaders improve gospel study at home and at church. The following will be available in 2012: Scripture Figures – 10 issues of the magazine will...
by Larry Richman | Jan 9, 2012
Beginning this month, the Friend magazine is publishing an online resource of helps for teaching children, including stories, activities, and media resources. Parents can browse by gospel topic to discover online Church resources. Primary teachers can click on...
by Larry Richman | Dec 20, 2011
Do your children like taking photos? Coming soon, the back cover of The Friend magazine will feature photos taken by children! The magazine wants to see their best shots about how the gospel blesses their lives. E-mail submissions to friend@ldschurch.org and include...
by Larry Richman | Dec 16, 2011
A prototype of an interactive Ensign magazine is now available as a free app for iPads and soon for Android tablets. This is an enhanced digital version of the conference issue of the November 2011 issue of the Ensign. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
by Larry Richman | Sep 1, 2011
The October 2011 issue of the Liahona and Ensign magazines is a special issue that focuses on the importance of the Book of Mormon. It addresses three basic questions: What is the Book of Mormon? Why do we have the Book of Mormon? What does the Book of Mormon mean to...
by Larry Richman | Aug 25, 2011
The September issue of the New Era is now available online in text and PDF formats and subscribers should be receiving their copies any day. This special issue of the New Era focuses on the Personal Progress and Duty to God programs. The issue is a reversible magazine...
by Larry Richman | Jun 30, 2011
Spanish and Portuguese speakers can now listen to content from the Liahona magazine online in their own language. Beginning with the June 2011 issue, audio of all of the material printed in the Spanish and Portuguese versions of the Liahona will be recorded and posted...
by Larry Richman | Jun 10, 2011
Why read the Ensign magazine? Watch this video about how the Ensign is prepared. This video was created soon after the redesign of the Liahona (and thus the other magazines) to let Ensign readers know of the changes, encourage them to read the Ensign, and solicit...
by Larry Richman | May 28, 2011
The May issue of the New Era magazine contains several quick-response (QR) codes that, when scanned with a barcode application on a smartphone, take you directly to videos, articles, and websites. For example, on page 3, there is a QR code that takes you to the video...
by Larry Richman | May 23, 2011
Have you noticed that the June issues of the Ensign, Liahona, Friend, and New Era magazines are now online? So, if you want to prepare a home teaching or visiting teaching message in advance, you will now have access to the magazines each month by the 20th of the...
by Larry Richman | May 11, 2011
This year, the Friend, New Era, and Ensign each celebrate 40 years of publication. Before the magazines were the Friend, New Era, and Ensign, there was the Young Woman’s Journal (first published in 1890), the Improvement Era (1898), the Juvenile Instructor (1901), the...
by Larry Richman | Feb 16, 2011
Did you know there are about one million Primary children in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? To celebrate this, the Friend magazine is sponsoring a new project, “One in a Million,” to show how each child is a special son or daughter of God. You can...
by Larry Richman | Nov 3, 2010
The November Ensign and Liahona containing all the talks from the October LDS General Conference are now online. The full layout in PDF format is also available online by clicking the PDF icon under the download column. An English Braille version of conference is also...
by Larry Richman | Nov 3, 2010
The November 2010 issue of the New Era magazine is now online. This issue features a special 18-page section titled “General Conference is for You,” which helps teens study and learn from the conference messages. It includes: Quotes and stories from the conference...
by Larry Richman | Oct 3, 2010
The Church has just published an updated edition of the booklet Temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that has been available for many years. This publication is especially useful in introducing the purpose of temples to children, youth,...
