by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Aug 18, 2012 | Encouragement, Jesus Christ, Scripture Stories
I was writing an article about the apostle Peter today for another website. I like Peter. Sometimes people aren’t very nice to him because they focus too much on the mistakes he made, but he did more right than wrong. Peter was the first apostle Jesus chose. He had so...
by | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog, Mormon Church news, Mormonism, news, Youth
It’s become a Mormon tradition that when a new Mormon temple is built, the teenagers in the area put on a special program before church leaders and huge audiences. It is always a cultural celebration with music and dance traditional to their own culture. When a...
by | Nov 3, 2010 | Friends, Service, Teens Making a Difference
Madison lives in Gila, Arizona. She has a severe form of autism and because of that, many of the ordinary experiences of teenagers are out of her reach. For Mormon teen girls, earning the Young Women’s Medallion is an ordinary teen experience. The girls work for their...
by | Aug 31, 2010 | Obedience, Teen Life, Youth
In a book about teens and religion, author Kenda Creasy Dean, who is not Mormon, argues that the Mormons are on to something in the way they treat their teenagers. She found Mormon teens were, as a whole, more connected to their religions than other teens. One point...