Joseph Smith encouraged early Latter-day Saints to pool their resources. Two centuries later, one of the results is an investment portfolio estimated at $100 billion.
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Recent years have put more attention on LGBTQ people’s struggle for acceptance in the LDS church, but asexual Latter-day Saints face unique challenges.
Latina women hold few top leadership positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but their contributions help keep congregations going.
Many Republicans have wrestled with whether to embrace Donald Trump and his brash political style. Latter-day Saints are an especially telling example.
The Utah holiday is a reflection of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ slowly changing identity, a historian of Mormonism and migration writes.
Temples are often open to the public for a period after construction or renovation, but only church members may enter once religious ceremonies begin.
Three female academics discuss how women are forging new pathways in faith leadership throughout religions that traditionally have been patriarchal.
LDS leaders still stress that men should ‘preside’ over their families. But in recent years, messages about marriage have stressed more equal partnership.
Fear of prosecution and a history of distrust toward the government have contributed to some fundamentalist groups’ views of medicine.
Thousands of adults who say they survived abuse when they were growing up finally have the chance to have their voice heard.
The 2020 census will now count some groups differently than it has in the past. That could make a difference in the final count – affecting which states receive funding and congressional seats.
A historian connects the $100 billion reportedly at the church’s disposal with the rocky start Mormons got in finance in the 1830s.
Who are the LeBarons, the Mexican-American Mormons who lost nine family members in a massacre on Nov. 4.?
A valedictorian at Brigham Young University came out in his address as a ‘gay son of God.’ And his admission met with loud applause. An expert explains how big a change this is for the Mormon Church.
In 2015, the Mormon Church barred children from same-sex marriage from the church. An expert explains why this policy was tied to a larger conservative battle against gay rights.
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah is one of the very few GOP critics of President Trump’s character and leadership. Why has he staked out this lonely position? His Mormon faith.
On July 24, 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and 146 followers entered Salt Lake City to escape persecution. This history has implications today.
Forty years ago, the Mormon church reversed restrictions on its members of African-American descent. Today, the church wants to celebrate the value of its diversity.
Mormonism is growing around the world: One of every 15 Mormons is from Brazil and there are congregations in China as well. Now the Mormon leadership is strengthening local congregations.
Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, taught that a righteous man could help numerous women and children go to heaven by being ‘sealed’ in plural marriage. Norms have been revised, but tensions remain.
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Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University
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Associate Professor of Religion, Kalamazoo College
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Professor of Political Science, Utica University
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Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
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Professor of English and Comparative Literature, San Diego State University
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Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University
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Associate Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina
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Professor of American Religion, George Mason University
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Director of Carolina Demography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College
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Assistant Director of the Center for Global Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University
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Dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School, Distinguished Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University
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