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How opposition to Prop 8 led Latter-day Saints to back Senate’s same-sex marriage bill

By Bob Smietana — November 16, 2022
(RNS) — Same-sex marriage, long a divisive issue, could be the thing that brings Americans together, said Troy Williams, executive director of Equality Utah.

LDS elder — a former college president — may have plagiarized General Conference talk

By Bob Smietana — October 6, 2022
(RNS) — Elder David Bednar, a former BYU-Idaho president, failed to tell listeners he was using material from an obscure religious teacher and other sources in his address.

For many Mormons who question, Faith Matters is a spiritual lifeline

By Jana Riess — September 29, 2022
(RNS) — With a podcast, a magazine, a publishing imprint and a major in-person gathering in Salt Lake City in October, the young Faith Matters organization is on the move.

So Cal conference this weekend on Mormon Millennials

By Jana Riess — April 25, 2019
Scholars, journalists, and data crunchers are meeting in Claremont, CA on Saturday to discuss what's happening with Mormon Millennials.

Mormonism and the persistent dream of 2-hour church meetings (oh please can we?)

By Jana Riess — July 14, 2018
Will 2019 be the year for the two-hour block of LDS Sunday meetings?

Why I still need ‘Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought’

By Jana Riess — September 6, 2016
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought has been hugely important in my life. In fact, I'm not sure I would have ever converted to Mormonism without it.
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