BLACKFOOT – A professor originally from Palestine who now teaches in eastern Idaho will speak at a women’s conference this weekend about how people can center their lives around Jesus Christ. Sahar ...

BLACKFOOT — A Brigham Young University-Idaho professor will be sharing her story of faith and hope during a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints women’s conference set for this Saturday.

“Faith isn’t faith until it’s tried,” Young Women leader Tamara Runia says. “And the moment we need it is the moment we question it.” ...

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