(RNS) — How will Billy Graham be remembered? Is his son Franklin damaging that legacy? Historian and Graham biographer Grant Wacker weighs in.
Jana Riess: Flunking Sainthood
(RNS) — 'Two Great Commandments' was supposed to be about love, yet it felt like a refortification of boundaries against LGBTQ people. Again.
Holy Harry Potter! From changes to women's roles to a new youth program, announcements came fast and furious.
Women and girls can now act as official witnesses in some Mormon rituals. While it may seem small, here's why it's actually a big deal.
Guest blogger Mette Harrison is not attending the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the moment, but she loves it as much as anyone.
Only two women speak in the Book of Mormon, but the Church's new video series aims to showcase female characters and voices when possible, says actress...
Divorce, teen sex and teen pregnancy are down. But the most religious Americans have not gotten the memo that there's any good news about the U.S. family.
Racially, religiously, and educationally, the small subset of former Mormons who are now involved in ex-Mormon social media groups are not representative of...
(RNS) — With more young adults emptying the pews, new research from the Barna Group shows what some churches are doing right for Millennials and GenZ.
(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...