Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Are double ear piercings and sleeveless tops OK now for Mormon teens?
By Jana Riess — October 5, 2022
(RNS) — The LDS church just backed off telling Mormon teens what not to wear.
For Mormons, a wonderfully boring opening day of General Conference
By Jana Riess — October 3, 2020
(RNS) — Saturday’s General Conference was like Corn Flakes—nutritious, fortified, and blissfully predictable. After a tumultuous week in our nation, boring was helpful. Boring gave me time to think.
A progressive Mormon’s top 10 highlights of this weekend’s LDS General Conference
By Jana Riess — October 7, 2019
Holy Harry Potter! From changes to women's roles to a new youth program, announcements came fast and furious.
Mormon growth continues to slow, church report shows
By Jana Riess — April 6, 2019
The LDS Church grew at a rate of 1.21% in 2018, continuing its slow deceleration.
Changes for Mormons: 12 takeaways from LDS General Conference
By Jana Riess — April 2, 2018
Mormons got more diversity in their highest leadership, a fresh focus on lay ministry, and a restructured priesthood organization in this weekend's groundbreaking General Conference.
What one bishop offers Mormons who don’t ‘know’ the church is true
By Jana Riess — September 9, 2016
Richard Ostler, bishop of a Mormon YSA ward, shares 8 suggestions in counseling those who doubt, including: Listen more than you talk, don't tell people just to pray more, and mourn with those who mourn.
Naming of 3 new Mormon apostles raises questions about race, international diversity
By Jana Riess — October 5, 2015
Mormons need to think carefully when there is such a growing discrepancy between the beautiful racial and international diversity that characterizes our religion around the planet and the much narrower range that is evidenced among our most visible leaders.
Mormons and “mankind”: Still holding on, but why?
By Jana Riess — June 4, 2015
With changes in the English language over the last fifty years, for the LDS Church to hold on to the use of "mankind" almost feels like a deliberate political statement. And a strange one, at that.
Will Mormon apostle Dieter Uchtdorf address us in German at General Conference?
By Jana Riess — September 9, 2014
Maybe the excellent new policy allowing Mormon leaders to address General Conference in their own languages will point us toward the need for more leaders of color and greater international diversity.
Mormon leader Uchtdorf translated to heaven; begins to glow
By Jana Riess — April 1, 2014
The LDS Church announced this morning that Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the First Presidency has been translated to heaven. “He was simply too good for this world,” said a church spokesman about the wildly popular Mormon apostle.
President Uchtdorf urges Mormons toward “transparency and openness” in their history
By Jana Riess — March 8, 2014
President Uchtdorf's talk yesterday went a long way toward softening, if not erasing, some Mormons' decades-old fear of professional history.
LDS Leader Dieter Uchtdorf Addresses Those Who Leave the Mormon Fold
By Jana Riess — October 5, 2013
In today's General Conference, LDS apostle Dieter Uchtdorf addressed the question of "If the gospel is so wonderful, why would anyone leave?" His compassionate approach was a breath of fresh air.
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