On August 10, 2020, an inland "hurricane" called a Derecho devastated parts of Iowa by flattening 14 million acres of crops, damaging...

Members of the Iowa City stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered on a brisk Saturday morning to assist in the...

Are Mormons Christian? This is a question we are often asked, and our response is sometimes, "Christ's name is in the name of our Church."...

I had the amazing opportunity to attend an Interfaith Leadership Camp at Drake University. This camp not only opened my eyes to other...

As the hour approaches noon, a line forms outside of the kitchen. People of all ages, races, and backgrounds gather to take part in a...

Rain can bring many well-planned outdoor service projects to a screeching halt. But for the 150 or so volunteers from southern Iowa,...

The first public discourse preached by female Mormon missionaries was in England in 1898. Historian Orson F. Whitney reported what...

Weekends are busy, even precious, and always too short. But for more than 100 women and teens in eastern Iowa, one recent Saturday...

March can be a wonderful time of year, especially for women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. March is when they...

The call went out from the American Red Cross to help manage shelters in and around Houston, TX, after Hurricane Harvey. I had a break...

Mormon teens from the Des Moines metro area plus surrounding towns like Osceola, Lennox, Creston, Indianola, and Knoxville, met up in...

For the second year, young women from the Cedar Rapids stake enjoyed an afternoon of service at the Iowa Gardening For Good farm near...

When Mormon pioneers traveled across Iowa in various waves between 1846 and 1868, they encountered cold, heat, snow, rain, mud, and a...

Bright and early on the warm and sunny morning of Saturday, June 3rd, approximately 200 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of...

On a cold December night, a group of people gathered in a small classroom at the University of Iowa's College of Public Health to learn...

It was a beautiful day for the first annual Haunted Hollow 5k on Saturday, October 22nd. Seventy runners participated in this family...

Habitat for Humanity provides hope to many who are striving to care for their families with limited means. Volunteers across the country...

As rivers rose to near-record levels in September and sandbag walls rose higher, many Iowa Mormons joined with friends and neighbors...

I began volunteering with EMBARC (Ethnic Minorities of Burma Resource and Advocacy Center) about a year ago. I was asked to mentor a Burmese

Listed on the US National Park Service Historic Trail System, Richardson's Point is the site of an early encampment for the Mormon...