With more young adults emptying the pews, new research from the Barna Group shows what some churches are doing right for Millennials and GenZ.
Author - Jana Riess
(RNS) — Recent news stories have brought home to me how inhospitable the LDS church is to hearing women's voices, and how very hospitable it is to protecting...
Former members of the LDS Church who are over 18 may be eligible to be interviewed about their experiences in leaving Mormonism.
(RNS) — Religion is messy, says Lee Hale, host of a new podcast called 'Preach.' For many Americans, especially young people like the 30-year-old Hale, that...
With mass shootings becoming a regular occurrence, it’s worth dissecting which Americans support gun control, and how they affiliate religiously -- or don’t.
(RNS) — This marks the latest small step the church has taken away from the GOP, either by tweaking its policies or upholding its usual position to the right...
(RNS) — Based on Google Trends, some change is happening in line with President Russell M. Nelson’s directive from a year ago. The term 'Latter-days Saints' is...
The recent runaway success of the Enneagram among young American Christians can be attributed at least in part to a logical backlash we should have seen coming.
Vaping is "clearly against the Word of Wisdom," says the LDS Church, in a clarification I am truly glad to see. But . . . et tu, green tea?
Many of the Faith Crisis respondents are people who served in the LDS Church, had a strong testimony, and held callings, and *then* left, often with spouses...
(RNS) — Conservative Christians in the United States have a pornography problem, though it may not be the problem you think.
An unauthorized apostle who had anger issues and emphasized radical grace? It's a tough sell for Latter-day Saints.
Being Mormon can sometimes feel overwhelming, but Mette Harrison has boiled it down into 73 simple steps. (First rule: stop saying "Mormon.")
(RNS) — The evangelical New Testament scholar says we need to hear Paul tell us to treat one another as siblings and tolerate one another in our differences.
I don't have any Mormon pioneer ancestors, but I do have two whose paths crossed with the Saints in the 1840s and 1850s, and their stories give me strength.