Bonnie Goodliffe remembers vividly the day the 1985 edition of the LDS hymnbook went on sale. Goodliffe, a Tabernacle organist who served on the committee that compiled the hymnal, watched through ...

It’s a good thing “Come, Come Ye Saints” is so familiar to James Davis Jr. and the Third Baptist Church choir in San Francisco. Davis Jr. recently began rehearsals with the cast as the musical ...

The final stanza of the Mormon pioneer anthem “Come, Come Ye Saints” directly confronts the prospect of dying on the trail: “And should we die, before our journey’s through…” Now new research shows ...

The May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club “Now Read This” is Tara Westover’s memoir “Educated,” about growing up in a Mormon survivalist family in rural Idaho. “Now Read This” is a ...

In late July a couple of decades or so ago I was checking in with Jonathan, a seminary classmate of mine, to make arrangements to stay overnight with him at his parsonage en route to fly fishing in ...

For my soul delighteth in the song of the heart; yea, the song of the righteous is a prayer unto me, and it shall be answered with a blessing upon their heads. —Doctrine & Covenants, 25:12 During the ...

in a while, but last night's episode (which I didn't get to until tonight) was so good -- and so delivered one of the things I've been hoping for from this show -- that I'll offer up some spoiler-y ...