This week the First Presidency announced new area leadership assignments with a modification that gives some presidencies four people serving rather than three. If you did not see the story on the new Temple Square Visitors’ Center, this is a must! The Tabernacle Choir will be doing a benefit concert
What are the currents in the news that touch on the ideas and values that Latter-day Saints care most about? Where are the stories that talk about us and what do we think of them? How do you find the perspectives, insights and ideas in the media that are important
The following first appeared on Public Square Magazine. If you were to learn about Latter-day Saint garments only from mainstream media coverage, you might assume that women experience them primarily as a burden: physically uncomfortable, medically suspect, sexually inhibiting, or symbolically oppressive. Some women do experience them that way, and
At Meridian we receive numerous press releases and insider news pieces that we often don’t report just for time and space on the magazine. We are going to publish a weekly update or roundup of some of these news items and will publish it on Thursdays. These will be short
Maurine Hello, we’re Scot and Maurine Proctor and this is Meridian Magazine’s “Come Follow Me” podcast, where today we celebrate Easter. We remember well those events and carry their magnificent hope with us. One night Scot and I were trying to photograph an olive tree on the Mount of Olives,
Daniel C. Peterson, retired professor of Islamic Studies and founder and editor-in-chief of the Interpreter Foundation, and producer of the film Witnesses, joins Scot and Maurine to explore Moses’s profound encounter with the burning bush and the charge he was given to confront Pharoah with the message to “Let my
My grandchildren attend a school that requires uniforms. However, every once in a while they have a “spirit” day when they get to dress up. Recently the kindergarten class was invited to dress up in the costume of another country. Excited to be relieved of their uniforms for a day,
Maurine When Joseph became vizier of Egypt, second only to Pharoah and wearing his ring of authority, he also got a new name that doesn’t exactly roll off our English-speaking tongues. It is Zaphnath-paaneah and what it lacks in clarity, it more than makes up in its meaning which is