In a time of fracturing and alienation, the truths laid out in The Family: A Proclamation to the World of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints answer the deepest longings of the human soul — witnessing that the entire Plan of Salvation is the sacred work of connection, relationships and divine oneness in family bonds.

This nine-paragraph document is only 600 words in length, yet it holds within it the foundational truths that have confirmed themselves to me over and over again across 20 years of study, research and teaching. Into our culture of fracturing, God has poured out truth about our relational nature, that his work is to enable us to be bound together, that not one of us is left without roots or branches, free-floating or disconnected.

The proclamation is grounded

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