the word “Mormon”
Oh, now I get it: Purging the word ‘Mormon’ is a bid for the mainstream
By Jana Riess — July 14, 2022
(RNS) — I’m still not a fan of the attempt to purge ‘Mormon’ from our vocabularies, but it makes sense as a piece of the larger assimilation puzzle.
The problems with ‘Latter-day Saints for Trump’
By Jana Riess — August 31, 2020
What Mormons do in this election matters – not only politically, in swing states such as Arizona, but in terms of the church’s own reputation and even its missionary efforts.
When Mormons make an idol of the church
By Jana Riess — June 18, 2020
In Sunday School lessons at church, if we talk about idolatry, the expected answers to the question of “what are our idols today?” are things like celebrities, money, power and sex. But the most powerful and consistent idol is the church itself.
Mormon $100B fortune offers opportunity to do more good
By Jana Riess — February 10, 2020
(RNS) — Secret fortunes. Guarded treasure. Is this what we want our religion to be known for?
A year later, how successful is the war on the word ‘Mormon’?
By Jana Riess — August 20, 2019
(RNS) — Based on Google Trends, some change is happening in line with President Russell M. Nelson’s directive from a year ago. The term 'Latter-days Saints' is gaining ground.
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