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Article: Pres. Hinckley answers myriad questions about the LDS Church
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- December 25, 2005
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The Associated Press talked with Gordon B. Hinckley, president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as he prepared to
celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Joseph Smith, founding
prophet of the LDS Church.
Associated Press: What does it mean to be a Latter-day Saint?
President Hinckley: It means to be a member of this church in the
first place and, in the second place, to conduct one's life according
to the doctrine and tenets of the church.
Associated Press: The church through its Doctrine and Covenants
lays out a pretty clear and some would say rigid path for living. Is
Mormonism a culture as much as it is a religion?
President Hinckley: Out of religion grows a culture. ...