Most people think they know the basics about the Mormon Church. A few facts float around American culture – polygamy, missionaries in white shirts, no coffee – and most folks assume that’s the full ...

For more than nine decades, he has lived it, studied it, analyzed it, shared it with fellow believers and explained it to nonbelievers. The soft-spoken scholar — with three degrees from Harvard and a ...

(Reuters) - As he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is facing questions over whether his Mormon faith will be an obstacle on the path to the ...

Oct. 4, 1929 — April 14, 2025: Jan Shipps, a folksy Southerner with a probing mind and a way with words, dies. Her groundbreaking work made the world notice Latter-day Saints.

A pair of pieces in the November/December 2004 issue of Books & Culture—Elesha Coffman’s review of Richard Bushman’s Believing History: Latter-Day Saint Essays, and James Bradley’s review of two ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's sprinkled with jokes about Mormons discriminating against black people and repressed gay longings, but the creators of a new musical about Mormons say it won't attract the ...

The June 13-16 gathering, featuring a “who’s who” of Mormon scholarship, will focus on “lived religion” in Kirtland, Ohio, a city dear to the heart of Joseph Smith’s followers.

“Are you a missionary?” one of my fellow passengers asked. It was a pretty smart bet. We were bumping along on a bus ride south from Ciudad Juarez, and I was headed to Nueva Casas Grandes, a tiny town ...

More than 100 congregants posed for a photo outside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints in the 3500 block of West Seventh Street on a Sunday morning in 1960. Courtesy Fort Worth Texas ...