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Psychology group calms Utahns over film on LDS (4-30-5)
It wasn't quite an apology, but Utah psychologists got some satisfaction this week during a visit from a national officer of the American Psychological Association.

Women urged to let light shine (4-30)
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf and his wife, Harriet, told thousands of women gathered at Brigham Young University's Marriott Center that their light can make a difference in the lives of others.

LDS women gather at BYU (4-29)
Thousands of LDS women gathered Thursday at Brigham Young University to renew friendships, take notes, assemble thousands of humanitarian aid items and pop umbrellas during the first day of the 2005 Women's Conference.

Mouw and Millet have the same Jesus?! (4-28)
Bob Millet from BYU has written a book published by Eerdman's (a Christian publishing house), and Richard Mouw from Fuller Seminary has written the forward and afterward.

Anti-LDS group files lawsuit (4-27)
A Salt Lake-based group known for its criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has filed suit accusing a pro-LDS group of securing Internet domain names associated with the names of their organization and founders.

Concerns about Salt Lake malls are mulled (4-28)
The architect of the LDS Church's multimillion-dollar downtown mall renovation said Tuesday planners are paying attention to the downtown streetscape and don't want to replicate a suburban mall in the heart of Utah's capital.

Southern Va. Univ. in first year as NAIA program (4-27)
BUENA VISTA--Thomas Longenecker loves a challenge. He has found a substantial one as the athletic director at Southern Virginia University.

Memoir details alleged sexual abuse in prominent Mormon home (4-26)
SALT LAKE CITY--A new memoir detailing alleged child sexual abuse in a prominent Mormon home has been discredited by both the church and the author's siblings.

BYU is major U.S. center for language study (4-24)
Nicole Kidman's character in the new movie "The Interpreter" is a translator at the United Nations whose fluency in an obscure foreign language uncovers an assassination plot.

Texas targets polygamists with age-of-consent bill (4-23)
Responding to a polygamous sect's move to West Texas, a state lawmaker has filed a bill that would raise the age of consent of marriage from 14 to 16, outlaw stepparents from marrying stepchildren and strengthen requirements to run for office.

More helpers needed for 'Spring Spruce Up' (4-23)
More than 700 volunteers from Salt Lake area churches, youth groups and businesses will wield rakes, shovels and pruning shears next Saturday, participating in the annual "Spring Spruce Up" that will benefit several hundred elderly residents.

Local filmmaker Tyler Ford shoots 'Piccadilly Cowboy' in London (4-22)
For months Utah filmmaker Tyler Ford has had his movie cameras rolling--in Trafalgar Square, in front of Westminster Abby, by the Tower of London, in Shoreditch Church where Shakespeare is said to have performed, on the Underground, by Hampstead Heath, even in the Scottish Highlands.

It's all Greek to us (4-22)
Think you know the demographic makeup of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?

Utah's retirees, Mormon families could make it one of fastest-growing states (4-21)
SALT LAKE CITY Utah is projected to be one of the five fastest-growing states over the next three decades.

Plans unveiled for an LDS library (4-21)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has new plans for the corner of North Temple and Main Street: a five-story, 250,000-square-foot Church History Library and archives vault.

Clinic brings smiles to poor (4-21)
Patients at medical clinics often come in teary-eyed--but exit with a smile. While patients treated at the Volunteer Care Clinic certainly flash their fair share of smiles, clinic volunteers often see departing patients crying tears of happiness.

Bombardier to settle LDS man's bias suit (4-20)
A Canadian aerospace company has agreed to pay a man who is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints $159,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Monday.

No more polygamy with girls under 18, B.C. sect says (4-20)
CRESTON, B.C. - The wives of polygamists from a religion-based community near Creston, B.C., defended their lifestyle at a meeting Tuesday night, but also said girls under 18 will no longer enter into "plural marriages."

BYU listed as No. 3 'best value' university (4-19)
Brigham Young University is third-best in the nation in terms of value for each tuition dollar, according to rankings in a new book by the Princeton Review.

Postcards Sent Out About New Mormon Temple (4-18)
For members of the Mormon Church it's a monumental event. The opening of a new temple on San Antonio's north side.

Chem-Dry, Chem-Dry goes to new owners in 18.9m [pounds] deal (4-18)
The deal for the Beverley-based business will trigger a 1m [pounds] windfall for the Mormon Church in the UK as Chem-Dry chairman Phillip Smith will donate 10 per cent of the 10m [pounds] he will receive from the sale to the organisation.

Idaho officials studying polygamists in Bonners Ferry (4-18)
BONNERS FERRY, Idaho -- Mayor Darrell Kerby never thought much about polygamy until he learned that a splinter faction of Mormon fundamentalists lived in Canada, just 30 miles north of this Idaho Panhandle town.

Locally published books (4-17)
Including Simon G. Southerton's book on DNA and Mormonism

'Dummies' book engaging, accurate (4-16)
"Mormonism for Dummies" isn't a joke. It's a well-written and very accurate overview of the LDS Church--in an independent style.

Y. classes in Israel in '06? (4-14)
Decreasing violence in Israel and Iraq might be increasing the likelihood Brigham Young University students will return to the school's Jerusalem Center for the first time since 2000.

Arrest made in elder's shooting (4-14)
A young Brazilian male has been arrested in the shooting of an LDS missionary in Brazil.

Missionary stable after being shot (4-13)
A missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was in serious but stable condition late Tuesday after he was shot in the head during an attempted robbery Saturday in Brazil.

2 faiths scrutinize proxy baptism policy (4-12)
Jewish leaders and the LDS Church will look for ways to more closely scrutinize the names of Jews and Holocaust victims submitted to the church for proxy baptism.

Virtue in Sin City (4-9)
Food, thrill rides, water parks, museums, exotic animals and huge shopping malls. What more could you want in a family vacation? But to get to these attractions you'll have to navigate noisy casino floors, cross paths with scantily clad cocktail waitresses and dodge men who aggressively hand out pornography on the street.

Jewish leaders flay LDS baptisms (4-8) (edited from original on 4-7)
Jewish leaders assert that Mormons continue to posthumously baptize Jews and Holocaust victims and will confront church leaders with a decade of frustration over what they call broken promises.

Jews, Mormons to meet over proxy posthumous baptisms (4-7)
SALT LAKE CITY -- Jewish leaders say Mormons continue to posthumously baptize Jews and Holocaust victims into the LDS faith, and promise to confront church leaders with a decade of frustration over what they call broken promises.

End of the world prophecy fails to come true (4-7)
Warren Jeffs' timing is a bit off. The self-proclaimed prophet's prediction that the world would end Wednesday didn't pan out. Of course, it could still happen--just not on April 6, 2005.

Tabernacle Choir's 'Messiah' in registry (4-7)
A 1959 Mormon Tabernacle Choir album is among 50 "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" recordings to be placed in the National Recording Registry, the Library of Congress announced this week.

Lack of morals called recipe for family disaster (4-6)
Hit television shows such as "Desperate Housewives" and "Sex and the City" glorify immoral women--and that's a recipe for disaster for families and society, Deseret Book president and chief executive officer Sheri Dew said Tuesday at Brigham Young University.

FLDS-doomsday rumors infest Web (4-5)
Doomsday scenarios and rumors of an impending mass suicide by faithful members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are spreading fast on the World Wide Web.

Miller funding Joseph Smith project (4-5)
One of Utah Jazz owner Larry H. Miller's favorite LDS hymns is "Praise to the Man" because of the line, "Millions shall know Brother Joseph again."

Details about Joseph Smith project (4-5)
Larry H. Miller, BYU and the LDS Church plan to publish over the next decade 26 volumes of scanned documents by and about Joseph Smith. The papers will allow scholars to study original documents without visiting the church archives in Salt Lake City.

LDS leader hails Joseph Smith (4-4)
Nearly 175 years after the organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, President Gordon B. Hinckley celebrated the life of the faith's founding prophet, Joseph Smith, on the concluding day of the church's 175th Annual General Conference Sunday.

Conference topic is Joseph Smith (4-4)
Brigham Young University will host the 16th annual International Society Conference today at 8:30 a.m. in the Wilkinson Student Center Garden Court.

LDS hail a decade of great 'flowering' (4-3)
A decade of "remarkable flowering" in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was celebrated as the church opened its 175th Annual General Conference Saturday.

President Hinckley praises pontiff (4-3)
President Gordon B. Hinckley of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remembered Pope John Paul II during both general sessions of the faith's 175th Annual General Conference on Saturday.

Temple raising home values (4-3)
Homebuyers are shelling out big bucks to have Utah's newest Latter-day Saints temple as their next-door neighbor.

Muslims join LDS to send tsunami aid (4-3)
Salt Lake City's Islamic population is teaming up with leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to keep aid flowing to Indonesian countries still recovering from December's tsunami and recent earthquakes.

LDS Church planning to rebuild Smiths' home (4-2)
With the LDS Church's focus this year on founder Joseph Smith's 200th birthday, church members anticipate a recollection of many events in early church history during this weekend's 175th Annual General Conference, which begins today.

Service is Sister Parkin's priority (4-2)
As hundreds of women hustled in and out of the LDS Church's Relief Society Building on Wednesday, anticipating today's opening of the faith's 175th Annual General Conference, two from Texas stepped through the doors and were greeted with an unexpected hug from a woman they've never met.

Kapp book is reassuring note, boost of self-worth (4-2)
In her new book, "Better Than You Think You Are," Ardeth G. Kapp preaches what she practices. She writes: "Notes of encouragement, even to strangers, can have a lasting impact on the sender as well as the receiver."

Adulthood tough to pin down (4-2)
When Britney Spears released a song in late 2001 titled "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet a Woman" she was, in fact, a woman.

LDS Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley Leadership Celebrated as Mormons Gather for Annual Conference (4-1)
Ten years ago, the membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints raised their hands in silent support for Gordon B. Hinckley as the newly ordained "seer and revelator'' and 15th president of the church.

Remembering Joseph Smith Jr. (4-1)
Any way you look at him, Joseph Smith Jr. is a remarkable person. If you see him--as the approximately 12 million worldwide members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints do--as a prophet, seer, revelator, church founder and translator of the Book of Mormon, you consider him one of the most beloved and important figures in history.

Quilt showcases pieces of Joseph Smith's life (4-1)
Quilting was a popular form of artistic creation as well as utilitarian need in early 19th-century America, so it is fitting that some quilt projects have been specifically designed to honor Joseph Smith.

Books on Joseph Smith (4-1)
Twelve books on Joseph Smith (recent, new and in the works)

Perry family and Kenneth Cope create musical tributes to Joseph (4-1)
Busy with other projects--including translating many of her songs and CDs into Spanish--Janice Kapp Perry did not plan on doing anything special for Joseph Smith's 200th birthday celebration.

'Joseph exhibit in both English and Spanish, runs through Jan. 15, 2006 (4-1)
One day a man came up to Joseph Smith. He had heard of the work the Prophet had done and wanted him to come and heal his twin 5-month-old daughters who were "sick unto death" at his home some two miles from Montrose, Iowa.

Heyborne is a familiar face--and voice (4-1)
Kirby Heyborne has become a familiar face on the big screen locally, starring in such movies as "The Best Two Years," "Saints and Soldiers," "The R.M." and, most recently, "Sons of Provo." In the latter, he played a member of a spoof Mormon boy-band--and demonstrated a surprising musical ability.

2 sequels for 'Work and Glory' (4-1)
Two sequels to "The Work and the Glory" will be filmed back to back over the next few months, which is as much a result of timing as economics, according to the filmmakers.

Dead Goat wins 2 points in suit (4-1)
The Dead Goat Saloon has won two rounds in its ongoing battle with Salt Lake City and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but the dispute over the downtown strip club is still not finished.

Rocky isn't thrilled by LDS 'huge mall' plan (4-1)
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson has reservations about the redevelopment of downtown Salt Lake City. Thursday, he questioned some of the plans of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and called for a more open public discussion of the church's $500 million downtown redevelopment project.

Romney's Mormon Faith Could Hurt '08 Run, Political Observers Say (4-1)
Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney, who is considered a likely Republican candidate for president in 2008, is a devout member of the Mormon church.