by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 16, 2009 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
The Young Women’s program, for Mormon teenagers, recently added a new value to the list of values the girls strive to integrate into their lives. This is the value of virtue. Today, virtue is in great danger, as teenagers are often taught, even by those in...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 16, 2009 | Mormons
The Mormons have a program for teenage girls called Personal Progress. It allows girls to set and carry out challenging goals in several areas of personal development. In some parts of the program, they choose their own goals. In others, they carry out goals set for...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 14, 2009 | Frequently Asked Questions
Mormon women are regularly asked why they don’t demand to hold the priesthood, which is given only to worthy boys and men. This is sometimes seen as proof that Mormon women are not considered equal in the church. The truth is that faithful Mormon women devote...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 9, 2009 | Mormons
At the April 2009 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called Mormons), history was made with the calling of Joseph W. Sitati to the First Quorum of the Seventy. He is the first black person from Africa to be called as a...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 9, 2009 | Mormons
Mormons celebrated the naming of a new apostle at the April 2009 General Conference. This vacancy occurred at the death of Joseph B. Wirthlin the previous December. The new apostle is Neil L. Andersen, who had been serving as the senior member of the Presidency of the...
