Mormon polygamy
Polygamy, politics and frontier justice: Why Nauvoo still matters
By Jana Riess — February 24, 2020
(RNS) — A new history of the Mormons' brief residency in Illinois in the 1840s shows how democracy has been neither assured nor safe for minority groups in America.
7 top Mormon news stories from 2019
By Jana Riess — December 31, 2019
From vaping (and green tea!) restrictions to a $100 billion nest egg, 2019 was a big year in Mormon news.
What the media isn’t saying about the history of Mormon polygamy in Mexico
By Jana Riess — November 8, 2019
(RNS) — Polygamous Mormons didn't go to Mexico in the late 19th century in defiance of the church; the church sent them there with its blessing.
No, the Mormon polygamists in Mexico are not part of Ervil LeBaron’s church
By Jana Riess — November 7, 2019
(RNS) — The families who were victimized in Monday's shooting were not involved in Ervil LeBaron's violent cult. In fact, they have been his targets in the past.
Polygamy lives on in Mormon temple sealings
By Jana Riess — August 3, 2016
While plural marriage has officially been banned by the LDS Church for more than a hundred years, the truth and lived reality for many modern Mormon women is actually far more complicated. Tracy McKay-Lamb is one of those women.
Mormon women fear eternal polygamy, study shows
By Jana Riess — July 20, 2016
Carol Lynn Pearson's new book argues that many, if not most, Mormon women feel pain and fear at the prospect of sharing their husbands with at least one other wife for all of eternity. Even if polygamy isn't currently practiced, it's "alive and unwell" in Mormon doctrine and temple sealing practices.
More Jesus, Less Joseph: Changes in Mormon General Conference
By Jana Riess — March 4, 2016
Where Mormon leaders once spoke at length about the end of the world and being victims of persecution, sociologists say now it's all about Jesus and the nuclear family.
Mormon apostle urges teachers to address controversial topics like polygamy and seer stones in class
By Jana Riess — March 3, 2016
Race? Seer stones? Polygamy? Mormon apostle M. Russell Ballard says the church's seminary teachers should address controversies openly to "inoculate" students.
The life-changing magic of tidying up Mormon theology
By Jana Riess — January 19, 2016
Kolob, polygamy, and six other still-on-the-books Mormon beliefs that we could say good-bye to once and for all if we adhered to the Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
Mormons hate polygamy thiiiiiiiiis much
By Jana Riess — December 12, 2014
How many Mormons confess to hating polygamy, yet imagine themselves practicing it for all of eternity? How many believe on the one hand in a loving God who desires their eternal happiness and, on the other, that this same God would make them grit their teeth and be obedient to a practice they consider immoral?
Mormon polygamy on NPR
By Jana Riess — November 24, 2014
Terryl Givens and I discuss Mormon polygamy and changes in the LDS Church with NPR's "Interfaith Voices."
Mormon polygamy explodes in the news. Why now?
By Jana Riess — November 12, 2014
A number of Mormon blogs and websites discussed the polygamy statements when they came out in October. So why did it take the mainstream media three weeks to pursue the story?
5 facts about Mormon polygamy from controversial new LDS statement
By Jana Riess — October 23, 2014
Some used to consider it "apostate" to say that Joseph Smith married women who were already married to other men. Now the LDS Church has acknowledged it openly.
Utah polygamy ruling has the Sister Wives rejoicing, but how will it affect Mormons?
By Jana Riess — August 30, 2014
*No one* is going to force the LDS Church to perform religious marriages in the temple for anyone it would not already approve to hold a temple recommend. That's true whether Utah allows gay marriage, polygamous marriage, or marriage between a fish and a monkey.
Mormons can now discuss the P word — polygamy — at church
By Jana Riess — January 2, 2014
What is different about the LDS Church's new statement about polygamy in the nineteenth century? How will it contribute to people's understanding of Mormonism and plural marriage?
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