Mormons
‘Still, small voice’: Ministering to the families of the Las Vegas shooting
By Kimberly Winston — October 13, 2017
LAS VEGAS (RNS) — For almost two weeks now, Brian Scroggins has spent upward of 12 hours a day walking the Las Vegas Convention Center — hugging the anxious, praying with the distressed and crying with those in mourning.
Mormon leader reaffirms faith’s opposition to gay marriage
By Yonat Shimron — September 30, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dallin H. Oaks told members of the nearly 16-million member faith watching around the world that the religion's 1995 document — "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" — won't change.
Mormon whiteness, the alt-right and Charlottesville
By Martin E. Marty — September 26, 2017
(RNS) — There is no surprise that Mormon whiteness is newly discussed at a time when alt-right agitators and Charlottesville demonstrators have provoked discussion of the meaning of 'white.'
LDS church sets record price for a manuscript of the Book of Mormon
By Kimberly Winston — September 22, 2017
(RNS) — For $35 million, the LDS church gets a handwritten copy of its founding text, while the Community of Christ gets a much-needed boost to its bottom line.
Caffeine starting to be sold in Brigham Young University’s cafeteria
By Adelle M. Banks — September 21, 2017
(RNS) — In the 1950s, the school’s dining services decided not to sell caffeinated soft drinks and that practice held until Thursday.
Mormon church leader excommunicated for 1st time in decades
By Jerome Socolovsky — August 9, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The last leader to be excommunicated was the late George P. Lee in 1989 after Lee, an American Indian, called Mormon leaders racist.
Mormonism’s Russia dilemma: How to grow a fledgling faith without preaching or proselytizing
By Yonat Shimron — July 17, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY — A year ago this month, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a stringent anti-terrorism law that severely limited outreach of youthful Mormons serving across the country.
Bikini begone: Conservative modesty at the beach
By Madeleine Buckley — July 11, 2017
(RNS) — A look at how women of different religions stay covered up with swimwear.
In the shadow of St. Peter’s, a Mormon temple rises
By Josephine McKenna — June 8, 2017
ROME (RNS) The LDS church has an estimated 26,000 members in Italy; its members are young and they're growing.
Mormon leader Thomas Monson released from hospital
By Mark A. Kellner — April 6, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) His hospitalization on Monday, a day after the church’s 187th annual General Conference weekend meetings, sparked concern over his health.
Mormon leader Thomas Monson, 89, hospitalized
By Mark A. Kellner — April 4, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Thomas Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is considered a prophet by the world’s 16 million Mormons.
Bears Ears National Monument, sacred to native tribes, faces a challenge to its status
By Lauren Markoe — March 10, 2017
(RNS) Could Donald Trump become the first president to rescind a national monument?
White evangelicals, Catholics and Mormons carried Trump
By Lauren Markoe — November 9, 2016
(RNS) Evangelical support for Donald Trump surged even as prominent evangelicals, including Southern Baptist Russell Moore, railed against Trump's behavior toward immigrants, women and other groups as un-Christian.
The conservative savior many Mormons hope will crush Donald Trump
By Lorena O'Neil — October 18, 2016
(RNS) Mormons have hit on Evan McMullin. And other evangelicals are warming to him, too.
Much ado about Mormon leadership
By Martin E. Marty — October 13, 2016
The secularist, anti-communal, anti-organizational impulses that mark Millennials and other younger Americans increasingly are also more characteristic than before of the Mormon, soon to be ex-Mormon young.
