Mormon mission
Big changes ahead for Mormon missionaries, as “service missions” start in January
By Jana Riess — November 16, 2018
The good news is that Mormon missions are expanding to include humanitarian service opportunities, shorter lengths of service, and less stressful living arrangements. The bad news is that it may be ghettoizing people with disabilities.
More Mormon missionaries are coming home early, study shows
By Jana Riess — September 26, 2018
A growing number of Mormons who serve a mission wind up coming home early, a national study shows. What is going on?
What was wrong with my Mormon mission
By Jana Riess — February 19, 2016
When Scott Miller served his LDS mission in Sweden, it was a Lutheran minister who taught him what a mission ought to look like.
Mormon missionaries, mental illness, and coming home early
By Jana Riess — January 8, 2015
Yesterday's terrific Deseret News article went a long way toward destigmatizing mental illness and the "early return" missionary. Bravo.
Mormon missionaries break dance, save baby ducks, and more on YouTube
By Jana Riess — October 13, 2014
These YouTube videos show us a Mormonism that's fun, spontaneous, and caring -- a religion that's out in the streets, helping the world reunite its many lost baby ducks.
Mormon mission failure
By Jana Riess — September 3, 2014
Mormon missionary Craig Harline was sure he'd be able to convert 84 people on his mission to Belgium in the 1970s. The reality was more like zero.
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