Want to Become a CEO? Serve a Mormon Mission - Business Insider

Business Insider is adding their own insight as to why they believe Mormon missions prep 19-year-old young men for the business and political world.

The REAL REASON So Many Mormons Become Executives And Political Leaders

Aimee Groth | Jul. 22, 2011, 9:01 AM

Every 19-year-old in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) goes through what one might call executive training camp.

It's an extremely rigorous two-year program: 10-hour days, no TV, no dating, constant rejection. At the same time many American teenagers are relishing their first taste of freedom as college freshmen, these Mormons are entering into the most disciplined period of their lives.

For the rest of the story, go here. It even has a little spot on "What the missionaries go through."

Image courtesy windy_sydney on Flickr.

A New Site to See Coming to Paris - ABC4 in Salt Lake City

The next time you are in Paris, enjoy the cuisine, the art, the architecture, and this new upcoming addition to be build on the city's outskirts.

(Note, this photo is of the temple in Draper, Utah)

Mormon Church announces plans to build temple near Paris

Written by: Dan Metcalf Jr.

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced plans to build a temple near Paris, France in the near future.

In a statement released on Friday, church spokesman Scot Trotter said,

"President Thomas S. Monson said today that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hopes to build its first temple in France on property on the outskirts of Paris"

For a full text of the story, go here.

The Original Mormon Broadway in New York - The New York Times

The New York Times reviews the Hill Cumorah Pageant, a large scale musical production put on by the church since The New York Times reviews the Hill Cumorah Pageant, a large scale musical production put on by the church for almost 80 years.

Did you see the production? Have you been in the production? Leave a comment. I would love to hear your thoughts.

A Mormon Spectacle, Way Off Broadway

Guy Solimano for The New York Times

By PETER APPLEBOME

Published: July 13, 2011

MANCHESTER, N.Y. — With its cast of 700, 1,300 costumes, 10-level stage and thrill-a-minute special effects of earthquakes, floods, fireballs, airborne deities and burnings at the stake, the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant, one could argue, has more in common with the spectacle of “Spider-Man” than with the merry snark of “The Book of Mormon.”

But then the pageant — staged here since 1937, on the very hill where, it is said, an angel named Moroni directed Joseph Smith to uncover golden plates 188 years ago — really is the Book of Mormon, a Cecil B. DeMille-style presentation of the holy book rather than the cheerfully profane Broadway version.

For the complete article, go here

How does The Bachelorette, Stephanie Myers, and the Presidential Campaign Make Mormons Look? - The Miami Herald

Mormons having a ‘moment,’ but is the buzz good or bad?

BY MICHELLE BEARDEN

TAMPA TRIBUNE

Mark Brenchley takes his Mormon faith seriously.

Others, apparently, do not.

Brenchley admits he gets “a little steamed inside” when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints is heckled, parodied, maligned and ridiculed in the national media. And that’s been happening a lot lately.

On the other hand, all this attention could turn into a good thing.

“I’m choosing to look at as a teachable moment,” says Brenchley, a municipal site-plan examiner and Tampa church leader. “If it makes people more curious about us and they start asking questions, we can tell them the truth about our religion.”

Without question, the LDS church is the religious denomination du jour. From Broadway’s The Book of Mormon to players in the race for president to Bentley the caddish heartbreaker on the TV reality series The Bachelorette, Mormons are making news. A few weeks ago, Newsweek magazine put a digital image of a dancing Mitt Romney on the cover for a story on “The Mormon Moment: How the Outsider Faith Creates Winners.”

To read the complete article, go here