For the past 11 years, JR Johansen has spent countless hours in his backyard studio painting portraits of missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who lost their lives while ...

At church recently, a young missionary spoke about a woman whose life had been marked by tragedy. Hardship in a third-world country had been followed by years of further suffering—the deaths of her ...

Every time I opened my laptop, I felt him pacing behind me. I even knew his name. Through research, I discovered he was the grandfather of my neighborhood friends, Wilma and Harry. When I shared my ...

An aircraft mechanic tightens a bolt. Nobody applauds. The passengers who will eventually board the aircraft will never know his name. Yet their lives may depend upon the care he takes with this small ...

The striking recent electoral success of members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and of others closely allied with that organization, has drawn considerable attention. And rightly so.

I’m sorry to say, folks, but this is the last AI article I’ll be writing for Meridian. Not because I’ve run out of things to talk about, but because I’m going to be rich and famous. Yesterday I ...

Why not add vaping to the list of specific habits to avoid in For the Strength of Youth? There are several reasons. First, when you have a list, it can imply that anything else not mentioned on the ...

President Harold B. Lee was in my ward when I was a Beehive. He didn’t attend the Federal Heights ward very often, but I’ll never forget one time when he did. It was fast and testimony Sunday in the ...

Even if we accept that mortal life is difficult by design to some extent, we may still be left with the question: does there have to be this much of it? This is an ancient question. How do we ...

“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.” Job 42:5 Along the way, Job raises many existential questions “related to a process of growth and becoming.”3 ...

The Book of Ruth begins with a portrait of catastrophic loss. Naomi’s world collapses when she loses her husband, and then both of her sons. In the ancient world, the loss of her husband and sons ...

Long before anyone called him Butch Cassidy, before the bank robberies and blown safes, before the Pinkertons put his face on wanted posters and pursued him across continents, he was Robert LeRoy ...