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 […]
LDS prophet poised to launch global tour Tuesday after making historic changes to help boost international Mormonism
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack By any measure, the new Mormon prophet is an optimist. In a move at once audacious and somewhat inexplicable, for example, 93-year-old Russell M. Nelson stood at the pulpit at the conclusion of his first LDS General Conference as the faith’s 17th president […]
Mormon church to celebrate end to ban on blacks entering the priesthood
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack On an otherwise unremarkable June day nearly four decades ago, the LDS Church made a momentous declaration: It was opening its priesthood to “all worthy males,” ending a centurylong ban on black men and boys being ordained, and on black women […]
Former Mormon mission president accused of sexual assault
Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Mormon church is investigating a former missionary training center president who is accused of sexually assaulting a woman […]
The Best Ted Talk to Learn about Mormonism
Letting go of God by Julia Sweeney The second half of this video is about Mormonism. When two young Mormon missionaries knock on Julia Sweeney’s door one day, it touches […]
First-edition Book of Mormon sells at auction for $80,000
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | March 1, 2018 MORE Several angles of the first-edition Book of Mormon, printed in 1830, which sold for $80,000 at auction on Feb. 27, 2018. […]
First-edition Book of Mormon sells at auction for $80,000
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) — In a nail-biting, down-to-the-wire bidding war, a version of a book that can be had for free in many hotel room […]
The Mormon Church Has A Domestic Violence Problem
Source: Huffington Post By Neil J. Young Columnist In defending Rob Porter, the disgraced Trump White House staffer who resigned last week amid published reports he had physically abused his two ex-wives, his backers […]
I’ve Been a Mormon for 75 Years. Here’s What I Know About the Church and Assault.
Source: The Cut By Judy Dushku Jennie Willoughby describes how her ex-husband Rob Porter was abusive to her. Photo: Courtesy of The Washington Post The most shocking thing about the outing of […]