MormonInsider.com: New Unofficial MGF Adopted Site

Eleesha of MormonInsider.com Well, welcome Eleesha, to your newly adopted website, MormonInsider.com. Eleesha is currently living in the Washington DC area, working by day and schooling at Georgetown by night. She has recently contacted The More Good Foundation, and has adopted an unofficial LDS website through our Site-Adopt initiative, which enables members to post about their lives authentically, so that...

New Media and Sharing the Gospel Online: A New Video on Healing from Depression

Seth Adam Smith, an online member missionary, has prepared this new video, Healing from Depression through Jesus Christ– based on the story of the woman who touched the Savior’s garment in the New Testament account. Sister Wrigley, who has treated many individuals with depression, shares her thoughts and testimony about how healing is possible through faith and study, through directly accessing the...

Newly Baptized “Mormon” in Colombia: Finding & Gathering the Elect Online

“Finding Online”: Columbia Convert Shares Mormon Testimony Fabiola Sikes, manager of the More Good Foundation Spanish websites and ning community, under Giuseppe Martinengo’s direction, recently shared the story of this new Mormon convert in Colombia! In his initial comment on one of our More Good Foundation sites, laiglesiamormona.com, our new friend told us that he thought that the...

Internet Surpasses Radio and Newspapers for News Content: Implications for Mormons Online

In a recent telephone poll of over 2500 adults, the Pew Forum indicates that the new social media platforms have once again re-shaped our conversations about what’s hot in the news: The Internet is now the third-highest platform for receiving news coverage by the majority of adults involved in the study.  It now ranks over local and national TV and radio news programs. This is significant as a sociological...

Elder Oaks, Mormon Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ, Speaks to Harvard Audience

In an annual “Mormonism 101″ venue at Harvard, Elder Dallin Oaks, living apostle, spoke to a diverse audience of attending students and faculty about the unduly diminished willingness of higher-ed institutions to provide religious instruction or to teach any type of morality. In his words, With but few exceptions, colleges and universities have become value-free places where attitudes toward religion...

Protecting Religious Freedom~Mormons & Catholics Join Hands

The fight for religious freedom offline will patently affect our ability to advance the gospel cause online. On Tuesday, February 23rd, in an inter-faith devotional at Brigham Young Unversity (a Mormon university based in Provo, Utah), Cardinal Francis George, who serves as the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, addressed the BYU student body, faculty, and guest in the Marriott...

MGF Meets BYU Hawaii: Engaging the Mormon Conversation

Jonathan Johnson recently returned from BYU-Hawaii, where he met, presented to  and collaborated with an eager, receptive, responsive, and warm audience of Mormon students, BYU-Hawaii faculty and administrators. It was an exceptional experience and opportunity, laden with love and combed with the Spirit of the Lord. As a resource to this and other BYU and LDS university students and leaders, the More Good...

Why Your Mormon Voice Counts: Online and Offline

I spoke recently with someone at BYU who works closely with our students who are overseas and whose travel is extensive–who said that he wonders how long it will be before a secularist-activist makes public expressions of faith mute to the point where our missionaries are unable to wear identifying badges–… A Deseret News’ writer summarized some of the current concerns regarding growing...

More Good Foundation Facebook Page: Ways to Get Involved in the Online Conversation

More Good Foundation Facebook Page Friends of the Foundation, Mormons Everywhere~ Please join us on our More Good Foundation Facebook Page as we share ways to display God’s goodness to the world through your lives and insights, as faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  We’re inviting all around the world to share your photos and talks, your write-ups of activities, with...

Elder Ballard Speaks to BYU-I Students on Media Perceptions

Elder M. Russell Ballard, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, addressed a significant portion of his recent address to the BYU-Idaho student body (Mormon faith-based university) to the issue of public perception and media perception of members of the Church and Church doctrine.  With vibrant illustration, he enumerated instances of misconception and lack...