Flunking Sainthood
Why are Mormon lifestyle influencers so popular?
By Jana Riess — August 28, 2024
(RNS) — Lifestyle influencers with ties to the LDS church navigate a tightrope between traditional and modern. And America is eating it up.
The behind-the-scenes battles to lift Mormonism’s racial priesthood-temple ban
By Jana Riess — August 13, 2024
The sad comedown of the Mormon Satan
By Jana Riess — July 22, 2024
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Why I’ve been AWOL
By Jana Riess — June 17, 2024
(RNS) — I am fine. Or at least, as fine as I ever am when I’m writing a book.
Eternal polygamy? How LDS temple sealings and cancellations became a raw deal for women
By Jana Riess — May 17, 2024
(RNS) — Surprise: LDS Church policies around temple sealings and cancellations used to be more equal for women than they are today. What happened?
The best way to honor Melissa Inouye’s memory is to be a kind and persistent badass
By Jana Riess — May 3, 2024
(RNS) — Melissa said it's not enough to memorialize our loved ones who die too young. We have to carry on their work.
It’s not just young women who have a problem with Mormon temple garments. It’s young adults, period.
By Jana Riess — April 18, 2024
(RNS) — An LDS church leader recently said that garment rules were getting stricter because of the laxity of young women. Let’s expand that to ‘young people.’
Mormonism is still growing, but slowly
By Jana Riess — April 12, 2024
(RNS) — There's something for everyone to cheer — or boo — in the most recent data on the LDS church.
LDS leaders announce new Mormon temple for Cincinnati
By Jana Riess — April 8, 2024
(RNS) — The LDS Church has had a presence in the area since the earliest days of Mormonism in the 1830s.
Community of Christ celebrates 40 years of women’s ordination
By Jana Riess — April 5, 2024
(RNS) — 40 years ago this week, the world's second-largest Mormon denomination announced it would start ordaining women. That decision forever changed the church, which is now gearing up for its first female president.
David Archuleta’s new post-Mormon single is steeped in Mormon beliefs
By Jana Riess — April 1, 2024
(RNS) — In singing about his preference to “go to hell together” with his family, David pays homage to his Mormon roots just as he powerfully subverts certain conceptions of the afterlife, writes guest columnist Jaxon Washburn.
Kirtland and Nauvoo: What happens next week, when tours begin under new LDS management?
By Jana Riess — March 22, 2024
The managing director of the Church History Department answers questions about changes to the tours and the buildings in the recently acquired historic sites.
Who is leaving the LDS church? 8 key survey findings
By Jana Riess — March 7, 2024
(RNS) — Among the findings: Most don’t join another religion after leaving but they also aren’t interested in coming back to the LDS church.
Kirtland Temple purchased by LDS church for $192.5 million
By Jana Riess — March 5, 2024
(RNS) — After years of resisting, the cash-strapped Community of Christ has sold its prized historic sites to its larger and wealthier cousin, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormonism, as shaped by the culture wars
By Jana Riess — February 29, 2024
(RNS) — Debates over gender, race and sexuality have been part of Mormonism since Kirtland, says historian Benjamin Park.
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Jana Riess
Flunking Sainthood
Senior columnist Jana Riess is the author of many books, including "The Prayer Wheel" (Random House/Convergent, 2018) and "The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church" (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has a PhD in American religious history from Columbia University.
