A year ago, President Russell M Nelson, then approaching his 100th birthday, called on members of his faith to celebrate the occasion by performing acts of service.

This year, the oldest president to ever head The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — and the eldest living leader of a global faith — has a message for the world ahead of his Sept. 9 birthday.

In his lifetime, Nelson has witnessed world wars, revolutions and advancements in technology, including, as he writes in a Friday op-ed for Time magazine, “from the telegram to Instagram.”

Still, some things, he stresses, never change.

One is that “we are all children of a loving Heavenly Father” who “deserve dignity.” Knowing this, he writes, “is liberating — it brings emotional, mental, and spiritual equilibrium — an

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