By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog

On May 26, 1926, Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, IL. The son of a dentist and a music teacher, he grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood in East St. Louis.

By the time he w...

Belle Spafford had been president of the recently renamed Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for just 18 months when the reports began to come in. Despite clear instructions in the Welfare Handbook, bishops were not calling on Relief Society presidents to do in home needs assessments for struggling families.

1946 records showed that ...

Fifty-six years before Joseph Smith* gathered a small band of followers in Fayette, New York to establish his own Church of Christ, Ann Lee and eight other “Shakers” — the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing — arrived in New York City from England. Within two years, the first Shaker community in the colonies was established in Albany County, thus making t...

We’ve been discussing the Church’s lesson plan for America’s 250th in the backchannel at BCC. We believe the material is such that it would take a skilled teacher to navigate potential problems we anticipate teachers may experience while presenting the lesson. To that end, we’re sharing ideas to help you think about the lesson in ways you may not have yet.

Before ...

Both Michael and Sam have shared some thoughts about how to approach