The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will not be as invisible as it was before Mitt Romney, but the media will only be interested when news events touch this little known faith. When Mitt ...
Pastor Douglas Wilson recently asserted that Mormonism is a polytheistic belief system amid controversy that emerged from the Pentagon over its designation of Christian denominations.
Backlash against an obituary of its late prophet Thomas S. Monson reveals the existential doubts gnawing at the modern church. In the Old Testament, there is a story about Nebuchadnezzar II, the great ...
A podcast listener takes me to task for saying that we should lighten up on Millennials, because doesn't everyone know that religions that liberalize their standards go down the toilet? Not so fast, I ...
Scott Keeter, Director of Survey Research, Pew Research Center and Gregory Smith, Research Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life [Updated December 6, 2007] On Thursday Dec. 6, Mitt Romney ...
This year is the 200th anniversary of a church that journalist McKay Coppins calls the most American religion. In The Atlantic, Coppins describes growing up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
In the August 13th & 20th issue, Adam Gopnik looks at the history of Mormonism and its place in American life. Here Gopnik talks with Sasha Weiss and Avi Steinberg, who is currently writing a book ...
Since its founding in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormon church, has been reviled and attacked — and, it has grown hugely. The church has some six million ...
(RNS) — Debates over gender, race and sexuality have been part of Mormonism since Kirtland, says historian Benjamin Park. So yes, contemporary Mormonism has been deeply shaped by the culture wars, ...