Lee Davidson

Lee Davidson is an author at Religion News Service.

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Mormons lead effort to index records of 4 million freed slaves

By Lee Davidson — June 22, 2015
The LDS Church will spearhead a project to make searchable records of the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency Congress created at the end of the Civil War.

The truest GOP believers? Mormons

By Lee Davidson — April 8, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY — No other religious group identifies so strongly with one party, although some come close.

Mormon Church essay says one of its scriptures may not be a literal translation

By Lee Davidson — July 9, 2014
(RNS) The “Translation and Historicity of the Book of Abraham” essay comes on the heels of other recent postings designed to help Latter-day Saints and others better understand sometimes-sticky theological or historical issues in Mormonism.

How to excommunicate a Mormon

By Lee Davidson — June 12, 2014
(RNS) How do Mormons decide who can be excommunicated? It all rests on the work of disciplinary councils.
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