The annual RootsTech conference continued Saturday as Elder Jeffrey R. Holland and his wife Sister Pat Holland, took viewers on a family history tour of their hometown St. George.
Free Family History Event Offered Thursday Through Saturday Tuesday, February 23, 2021 - by Phil Smartt
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Sister Patricia Holland will speak at Family Discovery Day on Saturday at 2 p.m. This is part of RootsTech Connect, a virtual and free family history conference offered by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
All in the greater Chattanooga area are invited to participate. Tune in at https://www.rootstech.org/?lang=engand to learn how to connect to your heritage, ancestors, immediate family and God. Also watch live or on demand at ChurchofJesusChrist.org. “Families,” Elder Holland said, “are indeed an eternal blessing from our loving Heavenly Father.” See The Family: A Proclamation at https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world/the-family-a-proclamation-to-the-world?lang=eng.
SALT LAKE CITY This year s online RootsTech Connect conference kicks off Thursday and will be the largest in its 10-year history as more than 380,000 people are expected to virtually join the event.
RootsTech is run by FamilySearch, a volunteer-based organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Slated to start this week, the event will feature a number of speakers including Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the church s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and motivational speaker Nick Vujcic. Utah Valley University President Astrid Tuminez will also speak at the event as a keynote presenter.
Typically, thousands of participants would attend the conference in person in Salt Lake City. But as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, an event of that size wasn t feasible. Last year s event hosted about 25,000 in-person attendees.
Thanks to last week’s vote by the Utah House of Representatives, efforts to change the name of Dixie State University inch forward but not without resistance. Opposition to a name change has shifted from preserving “heritage” to blaming “cancel culture” to the latest installment: weaponizing religion.
According to a source, Sen. Don Ipson plans to prevent a vote on the Senate floor. Aiding his cause and stirring up considerable backing in southwestern Utah’s Latter-day Saint community is a blurring of the lines between spirituality and Senate. Timothy Anderson, a leader of the Defending Southwest Heritage Coalition, wrote a letter to local elected officials where he miscontextualized recent comments by President Dallin H. Oaks as an endorsement of the Dixie name. Dan MacArthur, a former mayor of St. George and recently returned mission president, also drew upon religion, writing, “You know, as do we that (cancel culture) will not stop until all vestiges of histor
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