Memo to young Mormons: Vaping is not OK, says LDS Church
Source: RNS A couple of years ago I had an interesting conversation with a full-time seminary teacher in Utah who told me that a number of his otherwise faithful students […]
Overcoming the Mormon legacy on race
Source: The Economist EVEN AS American debates over race and identity turn increasingly toxic, one of the country’s most powerful religious groups and one of its most venerable anti-racist groups […]
New Zealand PM Ardern is the face of a new generation of former Mormons
Source: Religion News Service BY Jana Riess Earlier today in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had a meeting with President Russell M. Nelson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
Mormons making wedding rule change to be more inclusive
Source: Associated Press BY BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed wedding rules Monday in hopes of preventing family members who […]
Whatever happened to Mormon fasting?
Source: RNS By Jana Reiss It’s Fast Sunday tomorrow, and I’m genuinely looking forward to it. I have an alert in my phone to remind me to skip my breakfast […]
Why the ‘Mormon’ church changed its name. (It’s about revelation, not rebranding.)
Source: CNN BY Daniel Burke (CNN)When the messages come during the dark of night, Russell M. Nelson reaches for his lighted pen and takes dictation from the Lord. “OK […]
More than half of U.S. Mormons approve of Trump—but not among women
Source: Religion News Service On Monday, the Pew Research Center released its most recent findings about Donald Trump’s approval rating among various U.S. religious groups. The highest support comes from white […]
Most churches are losing members fast — but not the Mormons. Here’s why.
Source: Vox By Daniel Cox Jennifer, a young mother and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in northern Virginia, is honest about the challenges of being Mormon […]
President Obama, Mitt Romney and the Original Sin
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times President Barrack Obama has repeatedly professed to be a Christian, so, he presumably believes in the standard Protestant […]
Turkey May Target Mormons Next After Case Against U.S. Pastor
Source: Bloomberg By Marc Champion and Cagan Koc The apartment where Kenneth and Marilyn Abney once worked as Mormon missionaries sits opposite the local high school for Alsancak, a lively […]
Her Mormon college upheld her sex-assault complaint — but kicked her out anyway. The case shows a ‘loophole’ in BYU’s Honor Code amnesty, experts and victims say.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Erin Alberty When a student at Brigham Young University-Idaho reported being sexually assaulted in July, she thought she could not be punished under the […]
This Woman Says She Breastfed Her Baby At Church, Then Was Punished By Its Leaders
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Jim Dalrymple II BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on July 31, 2018, at 11:11 p.m. ET George Frey / Getty Images A Mormon woman attending church in […]
Mormon Church must end children’s sexual interviews, members say
Source: BBC News Current and former members of the Mormon Church are calling for an end to the practice of asking children as young as eight intimate and sexual questions […]
Mormons grapple with race decades after ban on black leaders
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church on Friday celebrated the 40th anniversary of reversing its ban on black people serving in the […]
What Islamophobic Politicians Can Learn From Mormons
Source: The New York Times By Asma Uddin Ms. Uddin is a lawyer and expert on religious liberty. Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on President Trump’s travel ban, […]
A Fake Site Posted an Apology for the Mormon Church’s History of Racism. Black Mormons Wish It Was Real.
Source: Slate By RUTH GRAHAM On June 1, the Mormon church will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the “revelation” that black men should be allowed to be full members of the church. […]
NAACP and Mormons call for racial harmony, civility
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Top leaders from the NAACP and Mormon church on Thursday called for greater racial harmony and mutual respect following […]
Promised temple is coming, visiting apostle Dieter Uchtdorf tells Russia’s Mormons, but the process ‘will be slow’
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack When LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson declared April 1that the Utah-based faith planned to build a temple at a yet-to-be-determined […]
Mormonism’s Global Future
Source: The Wall Street Journal By John G. Turner It took a long time for a quintessentially American church to go global. In April 1853 Hosea Stout and two other Mormon missionaries stepped off a boat in Hong Kong. They expected immediate success: Their church’s apostles had promised they […]
Visiting LDS president salutes Kenya’s Mormon ‘pioneers’
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Bob Mims LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson assured throngs of Kenyan Mormons that they share the pioneering spirit of faith with Latter-day Saints who settled Utah’s Salt Lake Valley nearly two centuries ago. “You perhaps don’t think of yourself as pioneers, but you’re […]
