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 ...

Wagon train crossing the Platte River 1840s-1850s. Courtesy: Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. They were a people who felt called by God, chosen to create a ...

All five of the above are 2021 or 2022 series streaming on television. All five present Mormonism in an unflattering light in some respect — “Banner” being the worst of the lot by locating Mormonism ...

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 ...

President Trump was among the first to express public condolences after Mormon leader Thomas S. Monson died this week. "Melania and I are deeply saddened," Trump said in a statement Wednesday marking ...

Last November, Jay Pimentel began hearing that people in his neighborhood were receiving letters about him. Pimentel lives in Alameda, Calif., a small, liberal-leaning community hanging off Oakland ...

(RNS) — While it’s a cheering thought that my religion has survived several hundred years in the imagination of ‘The Expanse,’ I’m not so enthusiastic about the way its Mormons seem stuck in the ...

That's according to a new report from Pew, released today and based on data from the group's 2007 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey. More Mormons (60 percent) identify themselves as conservatives than ...

According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), the Garden of Eden in which God placed Adam and Eve is located in Jackson County, Missouri, near the town of Independence. Circa 600 ...

There are many words Farmington resident Alicia Connell might use to describe herself. Mormon. Mother. Realtor. But up until a few years ago, ”environmental activist” didn’t seem to fit. “It’s not ...

For much of Donald Trump’s presidency, scholars and journalists have invested considerable time trying to understand white evangelical Protestants’ unwavering support for the president. However, there ...