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European Mormon women band together for solidarity in an American-led church
By Jana Riess — April 21, 2022
(RNS) — By Women, For Women aims to bring European Latter-day Saint women together for fellowship — and to talk honestly about tough issues.
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.
A year off from Mormonism
By Jana Riess — August 18, 2015
I took a year-long sabbatical from going to church because I knew that if I didn’t, the alternative was probably to leave Mormonism for good.
Mormon Relief Society president finds “intense joy and intense frustration” in the inner city
By Jana Riess — January 30, 2015
How do you host ward activities if nobody has a car and the ward boundaries stretch from here to forever? Or if the Relief Society is mostly single moms and there are no YW/YM to help babysit their kids? An Atlanta Relief Society president shares the reality from the trenches.
Mormons Do Plenty of Community Service
By Jana Riess — November 1, 2013
Guest blogger Geoff Thatcher takes me to task for my post about Mormons not doing enough congregational community service. Not so, he says; the examples are all around us.
Why Don’t Mormons Recite the Lord’s Prayer?
By Jana Riess — October 14, 2013
Perhaps it is true that Mormons unconsciously use the words of the Lord’s Prayer as a pattern for prayer, but somehow I don’t think so, especially because most Mormons are never taught it. In fact, the manual for the Gospel Principles class, which teaches new members the foundations of a Mormon spiritual life, not only omits mention of the Lord’s Prayer in its lesson on prayer, but goes out of its way to caution against repeating “meaningless words and phrases.”
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