Mormon food storage
For today’s Mormons, it’s Food Storage Lite
By Jana Riess — January 26, 2023
(RNS) — From two years to one year to six months to three months: Food storage requirements aren’t what they used to be for Latter-day Saints.
Mormon pioneer grit helped prepare me for this pandemic
By Jana Riess — May 22, 2020
"Even though I’m not attending the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints anymore, I had a moment of real gratitude that I’d been raised to have a year’s supply of food," says guest columnist Mette Harrison.
What kind of people will Mormons be in a global apocalypse?
By Jana Riess — March 20, 2020
This is an apocalypse. It will help to reveal who we are individually . . . and who we are as a Mormon people.
Prepping for the coronavirus the Mormon way
By Jana Riess — March 5, 2020
(RNS) — I love my church’s consistent, and decidedly unglamorous, emphasis on preparing for emergencies. Mormons are famous for this stuff.
How to be Mormon, in just 73 easy steps!
By Jana Riess — July 30, 2019
Being Mormon can sometimes feel overwhelming, but Mette Harrison has boiled it down into 73 simple steps. (First rule: stop saying "Mormon.")
Author of best-selling memoir ‘Educated’ comes to terms with Mormon childhood
By Jana Riess — May 21, 2018
Tara Westover grew up in an unusual Mormon survivalist family that stockpiled food for the endtimes and did not formally educate their children. Now the best-selling author of 'Educated' reflects on the Mormonism she left behind.
Mormon “prepper” group says the end is coming this month. Oh boy howdy.
By Jana Riess — September 14, 2015
A growing number of conservative Mormons believe the end is nigh. I think it's bogus, but there's still a valuable lesson to be learned from all their doomsaying.
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