Mormon Pioneer Day
What does a Mormon Pioneer Day look like in the context of Black Lives Matter?
By Jana Riess — July 23, 2020
(RNS) — Instead of congratulating ourselves about how we're no longer actively racist, how about spending this Pioneer Day thinking of changes we can make to be anti-racist in the future?
All hail the Mormon pioneers!
By Jana Riess — July 22, 2019
I don't have any Mormon pioneer ancestors, but I do have two whose paths crossed with the Saints in the 1840s and 1850s, and their stories give me strength.
How the Mormon church’s past shapes its position on immigration today
By Matthew Bowman — July 26, 2018
(The Conversation) — Each July on Pioneer Day, Utahans revisit the story of the Mormon settlement of the Salt Lake Valley, an event that still has profound implications for how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints thinks about issues from immigration to the Bears Ears National Monument.
Mormons Do Plenty of Community Service
By Jana Riess — November 1, 2013
Guest blogger Geoff Thatcher takes me to task for my post about Mormons not doing enough congregational community service. Not so, he says; the examples are all around us.
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