When the Bible doesn’t make sense
By Jana Riess — February 12, 2021
Kristin Swenson wants to give readers space to understand that the Bible is weird, and a box full of tools to deal with that weirdness.
Mormons, submit your COVID-19 stories
By Jana Riess — February 9, 2021
(RNS) — Members of various Mormon traditions are being asked to upload their stories, photos and social media posts about what life was like during COVID-19.
Mormonism and the ‘one true church’
By Jana Riess — February 4, 2021
(RNS) — Author Patrick Mason says Latter-day Saints' focus on being the 'one true church' may be missing the larger purpose of the restoration.
A real Mormon’s guide to the temple
By Jana Riess — January 27, 2021
Card takes a sensible and open approach to those elements of the temple experience Latter-day Saints are permitted to discuss—which, as she points out, is actually most of it.
Will the LDS Church condemn the right wing’s Capitol violence?
By Jana Riess — January 15, 2021
The problem is that if/when the Church issues a statement condemning the violence and reminding members of President Oaks’s wise counsel about accepting the results of elections, it will do little than reinforce people’s existing ideas.
At the Capitol, we saw the best and the worst of US Mormonism
By Jana Riess — January 8, 2021
(RNS) — The domestic terrorist who dangled from the Senate balcony and occupied Mike Pence's seat is a returned missionary of the LDS Church, to our shame. But Mitt Romney, also a Mormon, showed some of the best qualities our religion is capable of.
Hollywood loves the Mormon afterlife
By Jana Riess — December 31, 2020
Stories like 'Soul,' 'Coco' and 'The Good Place' depict core Mormon ideas that are alive in the popular imagination about the afterlife—and the “before life.”
Why I stopped tithing to the LDS Church
By Jana Riess — December 23, 2020
At tithing settlement this year, I declared myself a full tithe-payer and explained why none of that money has gone to the LDS Church.
