janshipps
janshipps is an author at Religion News Service.
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Mixed Blessing
By janshipps — February 7, 2008
Although they were proud of Romney, his co-religionists learned a bitter lesson from his campaign.
New leaders for the LDS Church
By janshipps — February 4, 2008
The identity of at least one of the new leaders of the LDS Church is a signal that Mormonism is no longer the tradition that it used to be.
Romney’s Mormonism
By janshipps — February 4, 2008
When LDS Church president Gordon B. Hinckley died last week, Mitt Romney broke the non-stop campaigning he was doing in preparation for super-Tuesday and traveled to Salt Lake City for Saturday’s funeral observances. For those familiar with the Mormon tradition, the candidate’s decision to attend the funeral was not a surprise.
The Death of LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley
By janshipps — January 28, 2008
Gordon B. Hinckley, the 15th President/Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day, died on Sunday, January 27, 2008. He was 97 years old. For 73 of those years he worked full-time for the church over which he would come to preside in 1995. Although he only served as church president for a dozen […]
Huckabee’s “Innocent” Question
By janshipps — December 17, 2007
Mike Huckabee’s question about whether Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are siblings moved a decades-long guerrilla campaign that conservative Evangelicals have been waging against Mormonism into the political arena. Zev Chafets, who wrote the Huckabee profile for yesterday’s New York Times Magazine, said the preacher- politician posed the query “in an innocent voice.” But […]
Whose your brother?
By janshipps — December 12, 2007
In a forthcoming issue in the NY Tinmes , an article about Mi
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