What inspired you to write Race and the Making of the Mormon People? Let me be a bit confessional. I’m not a Mormon, but Mormon culture has probably formed me more than any other religious culture ...

They just published a Pew Center for Religion and Politics, "A Portrait of Mormons in the U.S.," When I read the headline I about spit all my Sanka over the Deseret News almost ruining the scrap ...

The hours and days following the horrifying murder and arson at a Latter-day Saints church service in Michigan was not the time to parse theological identities. However, many used the tragedy as an ...

Even before Mitt Romney's presidential announcement last Tuesday, his Mormon faith was becoming the hottest "religious issue" since 1960, when John F. Kennedy, a Catholic, became the first -- and ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Alyssa Grenfell: Hi, my name is Alyssa Grenfell, and I am an ex-Mormon content ...

Brenton Griffin was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but is no longer a practising member of the church. His research is focused on the religion's place in ...