Elder Quentin Cook
Finally! Single Mormons have new opportunities, greater respect
By Jana Riess — April 30, 2021
(RNS) — New leadership policies and a general shift in attitude could help invigorate single members, who have low activity rates in the LDS church.
For Mormons, a wonderfully boring opening day of General Conference
By Jana Riess — October 3, 2020
(RNS) — Saturday’s General Conference was like Corn Flakes—nutritious, fortified, and blissfully predictable. After a tumultuous week in our nation, boring was helpful. Boring gave me time to think.
Don’t call Mormons “Mormons,” and do try the gospel at home: 9 key takeaways from General Conference
By Jana Riess — October 8, 2018
If a Mormon president is unafraid to boldly (and publicly) challenge a policy of previous church leaders, what other changes may be coming?
Mormon leader’s comments about ‘nonconsensual immorality’ draw fire
By Jana Riess — April 3, 2018
(RNS) — In General Conference, Mormon leader Quentin Cook spoke out against sexual abuse, but the language he used may have created more problems than it solved, says guest blogger Emily Jensen.
Mormon apostle bemoans kids today
By Jana Riess — February 10, 2017
When Mormon leaders lecture young people (or anyone else), it would be great if they could so without suggesting that anyone who has ever strayed from their carefully delineated path is under the influence of Satan.
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