Of all the numbers in the Pew Research Center’s recently released survey of “Mormons in America,” the highest, most overwhelming numbers are these: 98 percent of respondents said they believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and 97 percent say their church is a Christian religion. This comes on the heels of earlier surveys indicating that 32 percent of non-LDS U.S. adults say the LDS Church is not a Christian religion,...

SMITHFIELD — After dinner, three baths, four bedtime stories and a half-a-dozen goodnight kisses for 2-year-old twins Brock and Isaac and 6-year-old Ellie, Erin and Brian Thompson finally sink into the couch with weary smiles. Being parents is just what they always wanted. And they love it. “Of course we have our crazy moments,” Thompson says, “but for the most part we just try to find the good things in the day and...

Samantha Murphey is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Woman) and has interned with the New York Daily News My Thanksgiving memories are a blur of ordinary things — family gatherings, fall leaves, cozy fires, parades, touch football, pumpkin pie, turkey and trimmings. Flickers and flurries and fun. My memories are dotted with the classic elementary school holiday crafts — tracings of tiny hands made to...

Marriage is an important and essential part of the gospel as presented and practiced by members of the Mormon Church.  Indeed, marriage has been a part of God’s plan for his children from the beginning. In Genesis we read that Adam was alone in the garden.  But in Genesis 2:18, it states, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.”  God created Eve to be Adam’s wife and partner. The role...

Heavenly Father gave all men and women the sacred power to have children and has given precise commandments about how to use it. If men and women obey the commandments about procreation they can be very happy. Mormons believe procreation on Earth began with Adam and Eve, who were commanded by the Lord to have children so that spirits in heaven could come to the earth. A physical body is one of the greatest gifts God gives His children....

Mormons believe that the family is the essential and basic unit of life, both on Earth and in the eternities. The Mormon Church teaches important truths about the centrality of the family and its eternal destiny. In fact, The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Mormon Church issued The Family: a Proclamation to the World, which teaches powerfully about the role of and roles in the family in Mormon doctrine. More...