Elder Russell M. Nelson

The limits of Mormon obedience

By Jana Riess — April 6, 2023
(RNS) — LDS prophets have been on the wrong side of justice. When it is acceptable to disobey them?

Watch the Mormon seminary curriculum transform before your very eyes!

By Jana Riess — September 3, 2016
Over the last two days, the LDS seminary lesson on prophets and revelation seems to have changed and then changed again, as the church apparently grapples with its understanding of race and revelation.

The Mormon fallout of legalized same-sex marriage

By Jana Riess — July 1, 2016
One year after the Obergefell decision, many are still suffering the aftershocks of the LDS Church's resistance to LGBT equality.

Mormon LGBT ban was ‘revealed’ to the prophet as God’s will, says Elder Nelson

By Jana Riess — January 11, 2016
This is the first time that an apostle from the LDS Church has claimed the ban on gays to be not just another policy in the handbook, but an actual revelation from the Lord.

Mormon apostle: “Disciples of the Lord are defenders of marriage”

By Jana Riess — August 15, 2014
Taking exception to Elder Nelson's talk from yesterday. I can be a disciple of Christ and a supporter of nontraditional marriage. In fact, I can support nontraditional marriage precisely *because* I am a follower of that good shepherd.
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