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'''''The Friend''''', formerly titled '''''The Children's Friend''''', is a monthly children's magazine published by [[
==History==
=== Origin ===
Some{{Who|date=September 2020}} have traced the precedent for
The church's Primary organization was [[
[[File:May Anderson and Louie Felt.gif|200px|thumb|left|Louie Felt (right), offered her home as collateral for the printing of the Children's Friend, and May Anderson (left), the magazine's first editor.]]▼
▲[[File:May Anderson and Louie Felt.gif|200px|thumb|left|Louie Felt (right), offered her home as collateral for the printing of the Children's Friend, and her companion May Anderson (left), was the magazine's first editor.]]
=== ''The Children's Friend'' ===
By 1896, the Primary General Presidency began lobbying for its own publication, making several appeals to the [[First Presidency (LDS Church)|First Presidency]], but were denied because, "it was too great an undertaking."<ref name="Benson2019"/> In 1899, the Primary general board published ''the Primary Helper'', a booklet that sold for 15 cents, but it was unsuccessful and only ran for one volume. In 1901, the First Presidency approved publishing a magazine they called ''The Children's Friend'', with the stipulation that the LDS Church would not provide any financial assistance, and if it failed the church would not pay the debts.<ref name=Benson2019 />
The men in the printing office discouraged Felt and Anderson from printing the magazine, one of them stating, "Don't do it. Don't do it. Magazines run by women always fail. Take my advice and drop the idea." In November 1901, an office building was secured and Anderson became the first editor.<ref name=Benson2019 /> Felt put up her home as collateral
The initial print run was 2,000, with it increased to 4,000 the following year.<ref name="Benson2019">{{cite journal |last1=Benson |first1=RoseAnn |title=Sarah Louisa Bouton Felt: Thousands Called Her Mother |journal=BYU Studies Quarterly |date=2019 |volume=58 |issue=1 |url=https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/sarah-louisa-bouton-felt-thousands-called-her-mother}}</ref> By 1906, after improvements to the magazine and sales representatives created in each ward, circulation increased to 20,000. In 1924, the magazine changed to a larger size, with two colors in the cover, and included picture and serial stories. In the 1940s, center pages featured cut-out crafts for children, and lessons for children were eliminated. By 1970, circulation was at 170,000.<ref name=Harward>{{cite
=== ''The Friend'' ===
''The Children's Friend'' changed its title to ''The Friend'' at the end of 1970.<ref>Arave, Lynn. [https://www.deseret.com/2008/1/24/20066191/lds-church-terms-no-longer-in-use "LDS Church terms no longer in use"], ''[[Deseret News]]'', 24 January 2008. Retrieved on 24 March 2020.</ref> ''The Friend'' has been published since January 1971.<ref>Hansen, Ralph W. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/45227712 "Among the Mormons: A Survey of Current Literature."] ''Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought''. Winter 1970, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Winter 1970), pp. 113-120. University of Illinois Press.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pugmire|first=Genelle|date=March 27, 2016|title=Mischievous boys set stage for creation of the LDS Primary|url=https://www.heraldextra.com/special-section/lds/spring2016/mischievous-boys-set-stage-for-creation-of-the-lds-primary/article_f5314c54-c9f8-5561-a95a-b4d91379e3c2.html|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Daily Herald|language=en}}</ref> The First Presidency and [[Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)|Quorum of the Twelve Apostles]] of the LDS Church began to oversee the magazine that year. Contents included "illustrated stories, quotes and messages from church [[general authorities]], recipes, games, activities, suggestions for [[Family Home Evening]], gospel art, and so on."<ref name=":1" /> This change also made ''The Friend'' an official vehicle for communication of the church to its members.<ref name=":2" />
[[Gordon B. Hinckley]], then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, explained in an article in the December ''Improvement Era'' some of the reasoning behind the name change. He wrote, "The name of the magazine will ... simply be the ''Friend'', dropping the word ''Children's'', because when some youngsters get to be ten and eleven years of age, they think they are no longer children. But they still need a Friend
In 2012, the magazine's contents were described by the ''[[Deseret News]]'': "''The Friend'' magazine has incorporated scriptures throughout the magazine. Each article is based on a scripture, includes different stories about Jesus and a poster is found each month titled 'Bright Ideas' that has an easy scripture for children to memorize."<ref>Petersen, Sarah. [https://www.deseret.com/2012/10/18/20508294/interactive-scripture-games-apps-for-kids#reading-the-scriptures-can-be-difficult-and-discouraging-for-famillies-with-young-kids-but-the-messages-found-in-the-scriptures-are-relevant-for-all-ages "Interactive scripture games, apps for kids"], ''[[Deseret News]]'', 18 October 2012. Retrieved on 24 March 2020.</ref> ''[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]'' criticized a 2013 article about the mothers of [[President of the Church (LDS Church)|LDS Church presidents]] published in ''The Friend'' for not including the names of the mothers.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stack|first=Peggy Fletcher|date=2013-05-06|title=Something's missing from story on Mormon prophets' moms|work=The Salt Lake Tribune|url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=26607684&itype=storyID|access-date=2020-09-17}}</ref> In 2015, its circulation was estimated to be 275,000.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Sambuchino|first1=Chuck|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TiFjDwAAQBAJ&q=the+friend+lds+magazine&pg=PT408|title=2015 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market: The Most Trusted Guide to Getting Published|last2=Underdown|first2=Harold|publisher=Penguin|year=2014|isbn=9781599638669}}</ref> That same year, the magazine ran an initiative where children sent in paper cutouts of their hands with an act of service they performed written on them;<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cannon|first=Austin|date=2015-05-20|title=The Church Is Asking Kids Everywhere to Help With This Fun Service Project|url=https://www.lds.org/church/news/friend-campaign-invites-children-to-give-us-a-hand?cid=HP_TU_5-12-2015_dCN_fCNWS_xLIDyL2-3_&lang=eng|access-date=2020-09-17|website=LDS Living}}</ref> over 30,000 of these "helping hands" were received from children worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Thanks for Your Helping Hands!|url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/friend/2015/11/thanks-for-your-helping-hands?lang=eng|access-date=2020-09-17|website=www.churchofjesuschrist.org}}</ref>
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*[[Joseph W. Sitati]] (2015–17)
*Hugo E. Martinez (2017–18)
*Randy D. Funk (
*Randall K. Bennett (2022- )<ref>''The Friend'', November 2022, p. 3</ref><ref>During Bennett's tenure as editor, Ricardo P. Gimenez served as assistant editor between 2022 and 2023, when he was subsequently replaced by Kazuhiko Yamashita.</ref>
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