Mormon children

Vacation Bible School for Mormons could, and probably should, become a thing

By Jana Riess — July 14, 2023
(RNS) — There are few better uses of our time and money in the Church than ramping up our investment in children and youth.

The New Mormon Primary manuals were not designed with real children in mind

By Jana Riess — January 5, 2019
This weekend, Mormons around the world will start using the church's new curriculum. Primary teacher Mette Harrison says the lessons are going to be way over children's heads.

Everything I need to know, I learned in Mormon nursery

By Jana Riess — April 14, 2015
Popcorn's popping on the apricot tree, and 11 other lessons that bestselling novelist Mette Ivie Harrison learned in Mormon nursery. (My favorite: church lessons can be short. Also, let's start using Playdough in Gospel Doctrine class. Please?)

My daughter isn’t a Mormon anymore

By Jana Riess — January 23, 2015
"I honor my daughter’s choice to become an atheist," says guest blogger Mette Ivie Harrison. "She has already taught me a lot in her life and I suspect she will teach me still more."
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