Source: CNN By Ann O’Neill, CNN (CNN)From inside a Texas prison cell, polygamous prophet Warren Jeffs is orchestrating a shakeup of his embattled sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, federal prosecutors allege in court documents filed Monday. Jeffs, who is serving a life prison sentence […]
Source: The New York Times By ALAN RAPPEPORT SALT LAKE CITY — Donald J. Trump has vowed to turn blue states red in November, but as he continues to rattle Republicans […]
Source: Deseret News NEW YORK — A first edition of The Book of Mormon printed in the upstate New York town linked to Joseph Smith’s establishment of the Church of […]
Source: RNS By Jana Riess Yesterday, evangelical seminary president Richard Land stated his public disagreement with former Fuller Theological Seminary president Richard Mouw about the evolution of Mormon beliefs. The […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack For years, critics have pointed to the differing accounts of Joseph Smith’s so-called “First Vision” as proof that the Mormon founder made up his boyhood encounter with the divine. But a high-ranking LDS leader said Sunday that those varying versions do just […]
Source: The Washington Post By Pat Bagley | Religion News Service Mormons have always been dead set against alcohol, except when they weren’t. The LDS abhorrence of coffee, tea, tobacco and liquor (”Lips that touch wine shall never touch mine”) was not always absolute — a point to bear in […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK In a stirring speech Sunday, an LDS British general authority called on the Mormon faithful to see themselves in the suffering […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune It’s not just Mitt Romney who has a problem with Donald Trump. Polls and election results from Idaho and Wyoming show that Mormons generally don’t […]
By Ann O’Neill, CNN Salt Lake City (CNN) These are dark days for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the reclusive polygamous sect led by imprisoned prophet […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune If Ammon Bundy and other Mormons involved in taking over a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon believe their religion is backing them, they should reconsider. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison; Mormon mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife,’ Princeton PhD, nationally ranked triathlete This Sunday, I attended a Methodist worship service as […]
Salt Lake Tribune | By Peggy Fletcher Stack Posted: 03/09/2015 SALT LAKE CITY — Mormonism begins with a simple story of heavenly manifestations. A 19th-century farm boy in upstate New […]
Source: Huffington Post SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The co-founder of a Mormon women’s group who was excommunicated last year has lost her final appeal to regain membership in the […]
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To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page A London court called the church’s leader to account for “false” doctrines—the latest in a […]
The New York Times: by Laurie Goodstein. In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up, Hans Mattsson was a solid believer and a pillar of the church. He followed his father and grandfather into church leadership and finally became an “area authority” overseeing the Church of Jesus […]
By Peggy Fletcher Stack | The Salt Lake Tribune Mormon historians are cheering the newly released English edition of LDS scriptures, pointing to new wording about race and polygamy that […]
Author: Jon Ostendorff with contribution from The Associated Press Source: Citizen-Times.com A Billy Graham Evangelistic Association article labeling Mormonism a cult has been removed from the group’s website following the 93-year-old evangelist’s meeting with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney last week. Graham, during the meeting, pledged to do “all I can” […]
Romney is America’s first non-Christian presidential nominee. He’s a Mormon (aka Latter Day Saints Church member – LDS). Does it matter? More on that below. by Stephen Lendman Before he entered politics, he spent years as a Massachusetts Mormon leader. He began in the mid-1970s. From 1986 – 1994, he […]