If a Mormon president is unafraid to boldly (and publicly) challenge a policy of previous church leaders, what other changes may be coming?
Jana Riess: Flunking Sainthood
Two-hour church? Just maybe! And four other possibly almost kind of credible rumors about General Conference.
A new Mormon website uses real people and their stories to address pornography, with less of a shaming feel. But there are a couple of areas where the new and...
A growing number of Mormons who serve a mission wind up coming home early, a national study shows. What is going on?
With attention focused on the LDS Church's opposition to Proposition 2 in Utah, it's worth asking: How do Mormons feel about marijuana, and how many of them...
The excommunication of a former Mormon bishop has me flashing back to the "September Six," who were disciplined 25 years ago this week--just as I was baptized...
This week's leaked document about Mormon cover-ups for alleged sexual abusers raises the uncomfortable reminder that my religion is firmly enmeshed with the...
Yes, Mormon Millennials are leaving the LDS Church at higher rates than previous generations. But there's also a lot of reason for hope.
Joseph drank coffee and fought with his brother William, and Emma angrily kicked Joseph's plural wives out of their house. The Church's new Mormon history...
Two Mormon mothers discuss the unique struggles of raising transgender kids, especially when the LDS Church is not supportive or dismisses gender dysphoria as...
A few months ago, three-fourths of Utah voters supported the legalization of medical marijuana in the state. Now that the LDS Church has formally opposed a...
When was the last time we saw a Democrat actively court religious leaders—not merely in a calculated way to achieve a political end, but because he or she...
"Three decades later, I can’t recall a single word of [the bishop's] panty sermon, but I remember every second of throbbing shame as I sat there, forced to...
Yesterday, the church that invested millions in its Meet the Mormons movie and exports its Mormon Tabernacle Choir as its ambassador to the world asked us all...
It turns out that prayer and scripture study do in fact seem to help Mormons feel closer to God. Avoiding coffee and Game of Thrones? Not so much.