Category Archives: The Church

New website about Gospel teaching

If you’re new here, read more about the More Good Foundation. We help members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church) share their beliefs on the Internet. Learn more about what Mormons believe or talk with Mormons at LDS.net.Speaking of websites launched by Church employees, Brian Hansbrow has [...]

Important new blog for parents, families, and technologists

LDSMediaTalk.com is a new blog created by several Church employees to share “technology ideas for LDS parents and youth.” While this blog is not an official publication of the Church, these bloggers are experts in their fields and are close to the issues. Anybody interested in how the Church uses and will use technology to [...]

Mormons Make Their Voices Heard — Digitally

The Church Newsroom has a good article about members of the Church who are using YouTube and other websites to share the Gospel.
The article includes references to MormonHunnies, the three Mormon college students who’ve shared their beliefs on YouTube, and youth in Las Vegas who recorded their testimonies at Youth Conference.
“Speak on what you [...]

Internet Helps Apostles Teach of Jesus Christ to all the World

Elder Russell M. Nelson recently discussed the Church’s new website about the Savior, JesusChrist.lds.org, in a short video clip on YouTube (embedded below.) He said the Internet is a medium which will help the Apostles fulfill their calling to preach the word of God throughout the entire world:
Our responsibility as Apostles is to teach of [...]

Link to the Church’s new website about the Savior

This week the Church launched JesusChrist.lds.org, a new website entirely about the Savior Jesus Christ.
The following “badges” can be used on your own blog or website to link to the site. This is a great way to share teachings of the Savior with your readers and visitors.
To use an image from the left, copy the [...]

New websites about President Hinckley and President Monson

The More Good Foundation recently launched two new websites to coincide with the passing of President Hinckley and the calling of President Monson as prophet:
Gordon Hinckley dot com
Thomas Monson dot com
The Church also launched two new official websites about President Hinckley and President Monson:
Gordon B Hinckley dot org
Thomas S Monson dot org
The quick launch of [...]

Succession of prophets fuels interest in the Church

Our beloved prophet President Gordon B. Hinckley passed away last night at 7 PM. Since then, we’ve seen a flood of online interest in him, his successor Thomas S. Monson, how leadership and priesthood succession works in the Church, who current members of the Twelve are, and many other questions.
In the coming days, members of [...]

Elder Ballard Encourages Use of Internet to Share the Gospel

Today Elder Ballard spoke at the BYU-Hawaii graduation and urged graduates to use the Internet to share the Gospel. He mentioned blogging, podcasts, Facebook, video-sharing sites, and “people using … search engines to hunt for topics about the Church.” Here are selected portions:
The emergence of New Media is facilitating a world-wide conversation on almost every [...]

Virtual Missions

There were powerful ideas in the Church Newsroom’s recent podcast about the Truth Restored campaign. Elder Quentin L. Cook and Scott Swofford envision a future in which the Internet is used for finding, and missionaries teach and baptize.
The newly redesigned Mormon.org includes a chat feature which connects interested parties with “missionaries and trainers at the [...]

The Internet to find, Missionaries to teach

In a recent Church Newsroom podcast, Scott Swofford, Media Director of the Missionary Department, said new media and the Internet should be used to find people for the full-time missionaries to teach:
“There’s no way missionaries can do what they do now and shoulder the burden of finding. We’re going to have to do the finding [...]