The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Utah Legislature expands ability of clergy members to report child abuse
By Hannah Schoenbaum — March 1, 2024
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Religious leaders who report abuse still will not be required to testify.
Push to require clergy to report abuse stalls in Mormon Utah
By Sam Metz — March 1, 2023
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Behind-the-scenes conversations between legislative leaders and what Senate President Stuart Adams said was “a broad base of religious groups” helped thwart proposals.
Students across country walk out, allege LGBTQ discrimination at religious schools
By Alejandra Molina — October 10, 2022
(RNS) — 'You can just see there's this pattern and movement happening of students and employees at these Christian universities finally saying, ‘enough is enough,'' said Chloe Guillot, a graduate student at Seattle Pacific University.
Utah’s Pioneer Day celebrates Mormons’ trek west – but there’s a lot more to the history of Latter-day Saints and migration
By Jeffrey Turner — July 22, 2022
(The Conversation) — The Utah holiday is a reflection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ slowly changing identity, a historian of Mormonism and migration writes.
LDS outreach to immigrants grows, pushing church members to examine GOP ties
By Tamarra Kemsley — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — ‘Immigration as an issue is going to reach a boiling point,’ said one political scientist.
Mormons pay tribute to LDS leader Monson
By Mark A. Kellner — January 11, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) — Thomas S. Monson, considered a prophet by the 16-million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Jan. 2 at age 90 after months of declining health.
Mormons expect more of the same with a new church leader
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 4, 2018
(RNS) — 'I can’t imagine at all anything crazy happening with the switch of a new prophet, just like there hasn’t been in the past,' said Al Carraway, a popular Mormon blogger.
40 years after his death, Elvis Presley’s trilogy of baptisms enhances his immortality
By guest — August 10, 2017
(USA Today) — Multiple baptisms aren't uncommon in the American South, where beliefs and practices vary widely, even within various Christian denominations.
A letter to my daughter’s Mormon seminary teacher
By Jana Riess — March 10, 2016
Six things that Mette Harrison wishes her child's seminary teacher would do -- or stop doing -- to make the Mormon church a more hospitable place for teens.
Gay Mormon teen chronicles nightmare of conversion therapy in “Saving Alex”
By Jana Riess — February 29, 2016
When she was 15, Alex Cooper's Mormon parents checked her in to a "conversion therapy" program that shamed her for being gay. Now she is telling her story.
Staying Mormon when God is silent
By Jana Riess — November 7, 2014
I prefer answers to prayer to be delivered at regular intervals by owl post, or possibly skywritten over my house. But what happens when God is silent for months, or years, or even a lifetime?
Mormonism and the “only true and living church”
By Jana Riess — October 31, 2014
Mormons teach universal salvation and stress love for all . . . and also claim that the LDS faith is the "only true and living church" on the earth. Which is it? Can it be both?
The dangers of idolizing Mormon prophets
By Jana Riess — October 24, 2014
The Church teaches us on the one hand that a living prophet is more valuable to us than even the scriptures (!), and instructs Primary children to follow the prophet and never "go astray." But then it also tries to emphasize that a prophet is only a prophet "when he is acting as such," and that not every teaching is doctrine. Which is it?
“I know the Church is true,” and other Mormon muddles
By Jana Riess — October 17, 2014
When Mormons say we "know the Church is true," what do we mean? Does it merely *contain* truth, or is it the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
Mormons and Halloween: Bring it on!
By Jana Riess — October 29, 2013
Some American evangelicals have engaged in vociferous hand-wringing about the spiritual dangers of Halloween. By contrast, Mormons seem to adore the holiday. What gives?
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