“Mormon” name change
What Mormons can learn from Twitter — I mean X
By Jana Riess — August 28, 2023
(RNS) — If you’re still calling X 'Twitter,' don’t send me hate mail about saying 'Mormon.'
Oh, now I get it: Purging the word ‘Mormon’ is a bid for the mainstream
By Jana Riess — July 14, 2022
(RNS) — I’m still not a fan of the attempt to purge ‘Mormon’ from our vocabularies, but it makes sense as a piece of the larger assimilation puzzle.
A year later, how successful is the war on the word ‘Mormon’?
By Jana Riess — August 20, 2019
(RNS) — Based on Google Trends, some change is happening in line with President Russell M. Nelson’s directive from a year ago. The term 'Latter-days Saints' is gaining ground.
The name ‘Mormon’: Why all the fuss, and why now?
By Jana Riess — October 20, 2018
President Nelson is right that this "Mormon" name correction is neither cosmetic nor inconsequential. Rather, it may become a defining characteristic of a religion that is anxious to separate the wheat from the chaff in the pluralistic 21st century.
Why ‘Mormon’ is now a four-letter word and other General Conference takeaways
By Jana Riess — October 8, 2018
(RNS) — The name 'Mormon' is out. Church services will be shorter. And the focus of the faith will be at home, not primarily at church. Here are nine highlights from this weekend's conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Top 5 Mormon rumors about this weekend’s General Conference
By Jana Riess — October 4, 2018
Two-hour church? Just maybe! And four other possibly almost kind of credible rumors about General Conference.
I’m a Mormon! But I’m not supposed to call myself that anymore.
By Jana Riess — August 17, 2018
Yesterday, the church that invested millions in its Meet the Mormons movie and exports its Mormon Tabernacle Choir as its ambassador to the world asked us all to stop using the word “Mormon.”
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