Ensign (magazine)

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title = Ensign


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frequency = Monthly
category = LDS magazine
firstdate = January 1971
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country = USA
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"The Ensign of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", commonly shortened to "Ensign" (IPAEng|ˈɛnsaɪn), is an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The magazine was first issued in January 1971 along with the correlated "New Era" (for youth) and the "Friend" (for children), all of which replaced the older church publications "Improvement Era", "Relief Society Magazine", "The Instructor", and the "Millennial Star". Unlike some of its predecessors, the "Ensign" contains no advertisements.

As an official church publication, the "Ensign" contains faith-promoting and proselytizing information, stories, sermons, and often apostolic scholarship.

Semiannually, the "Ensign" gives a full report of the proceedings of the annual and semi-annual general conferences of the church. These issues contain the full sermons and business of the conferences, as well as a current photographic list of the highest officers of the LDS Church, referred to as the general authorities.

The full text and page layout of every issue of the magazine is available on the church's web site. Each issue since January 2001 is also available in PDF format.

ee also

* List of Latter Day Saint periodicals
*Herald (Community of Christ)

External links

* [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a6246a008952b010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0 "Ensign" official homepage]
* [http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=bddd083ffe5bc010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0 "Ensign" archive (HTML text from 1971 to present)]
* [http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pdfmagazine/0,7779,592-6-1,00.html "Ensign" in PDF format (from January 2001)]
* " [http://academic-genealogy.com/ensignfamilyhistorygenealogy.htm Ensign and New Era] " Family History - Genealogy online INDEX to articles in the Ensign and New Era.