Ensign on Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet
Lincoln Cannon
16 June 2008 (updated 8 October 2025)
I’ve learned that the next issue of the LDS Church magazine, The Ensign, will feature “Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet” as its cover article. It is an adaptation of a talk given by Elder M. Russell Ballard, who has been encouraging Mormon involvement in Internet discussion and promotion of our religion.
I’m excited to see the Church focusing this level of attention on the use of technology as a means for pursuing a Mormon vision of the future. Assuming trends in computing, biotech, and miniaturization continue, it may not be so long as some suppose before we see a cover article of The Ensign entitled something like “Fulfilling Prophecies of Life Extension.”
Sound too strange? Consider how strange the current cover article would have sounded to Mormons even 20 years ago.
