LDS church
Mormon Church reveals images of founder’s ‘seer stone’
By Reuters — August 5, 2015
The faithful believe God helped him use the "seer stone" to translate symbols found on gold plates into English text that became the Book of Mormon.
Mormons considering alternative international scouting organization for boys
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — July 29, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY – While the BSA insists that religiously affiliated troops, including those sponsored by the LDS Church, can continue to ban gay leaders, many observers doubt such an exemption can be legally defended.
Kate Kelly joins hundreds outside Mormon headquarters for mass-resignation event
By Benjamin Wood — July 27, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) With a signed letter in hand, Stephanie Engle joined roughly 100 current and former Mormons -- including Ordain Women co-founder Kate Kelly -- at a mass-resignation event a block from the church’s downtown headquarters.
Spectacular annual pageant at fount of Mormon faith
By Sarah Taddeo — July 13, 2015
More than 700 people have been cast in scenes from the Book of Mormon this week on the hill in Manchester, where Joseph Smith is said to have received the faith's sacred texts from an angel.
Letter on same-sex marriage has Mormons talking, listening
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — July 13, 2015
An unprecedented letter from top Mormon leaders on how the LDS church should respond to the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling has started a dialog in many local churches.
“Despicable Me” creator on Mormonism, Minions, and “the best calling in the church”
By Jana Riess — July 9, 2015
Meet the guy behind the Minions: Cinco Paul, one of the creators of the "Despicable Me" franchise, talks about how his Mormon faith has influenced his two decades of screenwriting.
Where do feminist Mormons stand, a year after excommunication?
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — June 23, 2015
Many Mormon feminists experienced Kate Kelly’s excommunication as a harsh slap felt around the world.
Mormons lead effort to index records of 4 million freed slaves
By Lee Davidson — June 22, 2015
The LDS Church will spearhead a project to make searchable records of the Freedmen’s Bureau, an agency Congress created at the end of the Civil War.
How a new Mormon apostle is chosen
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — June 1, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY – All Mormon apostles are seen by members as “prophets, seers and revelators.” They also become full-time executives, running a billion-dollar enterprise.
If you don’t like Mormonism, why don’t you leave?
By Jana Riess — March 27, 2015
People often ask Mormon novelist Mette Harrison why she sticks with the LDS Church even if she has some problems with it. "I believe in the principle of conversation and compromise," she says.
Utah’s new law a ‘toolkit’ for fighting LGBT discrimination, say activists, legal experts
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — March 17, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) Activists and legal experts agreed there was one tool missing in the new law: public accommodations provisions that might ban discrimination in the sale of goods and services.
Mormons free to back gay marriage on social media, LDS apostle says
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — March 17, 2015
Backing marriage equality on social media sites, including on Facebook or Twitter, "is not an organized effort to attack our effort, or our functioning as a church.," Elder D. Todd Christofferson said in the interview.
With average age of 80, Mormon church has never had older top leaders
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — March 5, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) For the first time in the history of the 185-year-old Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the average age of the 15 men who comprise the faith’s top leaders is 80.
Ordain Women’s Kate Kelly loses last appeal; husband to resign from Mormon church
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — March 1, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Kate Kelly appealed the decision to the church's highest authority, the First Presidency. With the rejection, her husband, Neil Ransom, plans to resign his Mormon membership. The couple now lives in Kenya.
Mormon podcaster, known for airing dissent and doubt, faces church discipline
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — January 16, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) John Dehlin, known to support same-sex marriage and the Ordain Women movement, said he expects "either disfellowshipment (i.e., official censure) or excommunication."
