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Changes coming for Mormon service missions
By Jana Riess — September 28, 2023
(RNS) — LDS service missionaries will now be integrated more fully into the Church's overall proselytizing mission structure.
Today’s Mormon missionaries: Clingy, soft, and immature?
By Jana Riess — February 18, 2019
Some reactions to last week's announcement about Mormon missionaries can be summed up in three words, delivered in your crankiest and most stereotyped elderly male voice: “In MY day. . . .”
Big changes ahead for Mormon missionaries, as “service missions” start in January
By Jana Riess — November 16, 2018
The good news is that Mormon missions are expanding to include humanitarian service opportunities, shorter lengths of service, and less stressful living arrangements. The bad news is that it may be ghettoizing people with disabilities.
Undoing the culture of Mormon judgmentalism—Or, I am not a “tare”
By Jana Riess — November 13, 2018
I'm getting tired of the way some Mormons throw around the "wheat and the tares" analogy to dismiss anyone who disagrees with them. A culture of judgmentalism has consequences, and they're not good.
Top 5 Mormon rumors about this weekend’s General Conference
By Jana Riess — October 4, 2018
Two-hour church? Just maybe! And four other possibly almost kind of credible rumors about General Conference.
More Mormon missionaries are coming home early, study shows
By Jana Riess — September 26, 2018
A growing number of Mormons who serve a mission wind up coming home early, a national study shows. What is going on?
I hope they call you on a Mormon mission
By Jana Riess — August 18, 2017
The majority of returned Mormon missionaries say their mission was a positive experience -- even those who subsequently left the LDS Church.
Are Mormon missionaries being denied health care? How Slate dropped the ball
By Jana Riess — October 14, 2015
Yesterday's Slate article alleged that the LDS Church is denying health care to Mormon missionaries, but the article's shoddy journalism only serves to trivialize a potentially important conversation.
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