Mormon converts

From Mormon missionary to Lutheran pastor

By Jana Riess — April 27, 2021
(RNS) — Langston ‘tried millions of ways’ to make Mormonism work, but she eventually found peace in the Lutheran Church (ELCA) and began to pursue a path toward ordination. Her parents and husband, who are still Latter-day Saints, were supportive, but ‘they were heartbroken.’

Don’t give me a Mormon funeral

By Jana Riess — January 31, 2019
Bury me in purple, with a funeral that is geared for (and planned by) my non-Mormon family. But funeral potatoes are definitely OK.

Forgotten Mormon artist finally gets his due in new LDS Church exhibit

By Jana Riess — November 9, 2017
Joseph Paul Vorst was a well-known artist in the 1930s and 1940s, but Mormons only recently discovered he was LDS. Now for the first time, there will be a major retrospective exhibit of his life and work.
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