by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Aug 31, 2013 | Mormon
I wasn’t born a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, what many people inadvertently refer to as a “Mormon” instead of a Latter-day Saint, but I’d known a few of them over the years. In middle school, the first Mormon I ever knew was a boy a few...
by | Apr 11, 2011 | Blog, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Teen Life, Teens Making a Difference, Understanding Your Mormon Friend
There are a lot of people trying to convince Mormons the Book of Mormon Musical on Broadway is actually very nice to Mormons and very sweet. If you’ve read any reviews, you probably realized that is not true. Not only is it not nice to Mormons, it is also not nice to...
by | Dec 16, 2010 | Blog, Famous Mormon Teens, famous Mormons, Finding Truth, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Scripture Stories, Teens Making a Difference
In the last article we pretended we had a chance to enter a game show that assigned you a special quest. You could guess the quest or you could be told what it was and how to solve it but the prize was the same. Obviously, you’d want to be told what to do. Finding a...
by | Dec 7, 2010 | Blog, Friends, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Teen Life, Understanding Your Mormon Friend, Youth
You’re a nice person and you like to respect the standards and beliefs of all your friends. So now you have a Mormon friend and you can see she belongs to a strict religion, but you’re not sure what the rules are. Christmas is coming and you’re wondering if you can...
by | Sep 1, 2010 | Blog, Encouragement, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Obedience, Repentance, Teen Life, Understanding Your Mormon Friend, Youth
Kenda Creasy Dean, author of a book on teens and religion, is not a Mormon, but she found, while interviewing hundreds of teens, that Mormon teens had something other teens did not. One thing she found is that Mormonism gives its teenagers hope for the future. Mormon...
by | Aug 30, 2010 | Mormon, Mormon Church news, Mormonism, Teen Life
In the last post, I explained that a recent study showed Mormon teens and teens who attend black churches were more committed to their religions than other teens. In this series of articles, we’re looking at what the author says churches need to do for their teens and...
