Mormon youth interviews
The top 10 changes President Russell M. Nelson has made in the LDS church
By Jana Riess — January 18, 2022
(RNS) — While many Mormons — including me — expected a Nelson presidency to be staid and uneventful, it’s been full of pleasant surprises.
“When I was a young girl, my Mormon bishop asked me about my panties during a temple recommend interview”
By Jana Riess — August 21, 2018
"Three decades later, I can’t recall a single word of [the bishop's] panty sermon, but I remember every second of throbbing shame as I sat there, forced to listen to it," says today's guest columnist.
Mormon statement on child abuse: Move along, folks; we don’t have a problem
By Jana Riess — February 2, 2016
The LDS Church's statement offers a flat-out denial coupled with a blame-the-victim mentality and inexplicable claims about all the great things we've done to prevent a problem that -- did we mention? -- never existed among our people anyway.
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