SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Just because the nation may change its laws to "tolerate legalized acts of immorality" does not make those acts any less spiritua...
Without revealing too much of the plot of Sweet Land of Bigamy, I will say that it is a true blessing to live in a time, and a country, where a woman, even in fiction, could marry two men and when found out, not immediately led to the gallows.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney offered a disclaimer in the second presidential debate Tuesday before he addressed his stance on immigrati...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will rapidly increase the number of missionaries it sends throughout the world, church leaders have an...
David Twede, the Mormon blogger who made international headlines after he said he was threatened with excommunication because he criticized church pra...
Brigham Young was probably the most oft-married man in 19th-century America. But the sheer variety of his marriages makes it difficult to make sense of them.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 12 (Reuters) - If the Mormon church were a business, wealthy adherents like Mitt Romney would count as its dominant revenue strea...
While I may be known as Novakaine, "the Wisconsin native sharpshooter," I have learned that there is a greater responsibility that we are given than making sure the ball finds its way into the basket.
SALT LAKE CITY — More than 300 Mormon church members who are not gay drew shouts of approval and tears from spectators while marching in the Uta...
In a matchup between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, it's an easy choice for conservatives like both of us to fully endorse Governor Romney in this year's election.
In general terms, secrecy can suggest bad motives or suppressed scandal, but we must simultaneously recognize that there are times and places where respectful silence is still appropriate.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon church leaders say the church's policy of not performing posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims and others unrelated to its...
Sex was around far before pornography was. Before the cyber age, I'm sure priests, rabbis and clergy from all religious affiliations were aware it existed. It didn't take porn sites and web cams to bring it to their attention.
WASHINGTON -- The pastor who introduced Texas Gov. Rick Perry at a conservative gathering Friday said rival presidential candidate Mitt Romney is not ...
Billboards, radio ads and TV commercials are about to get a little religious. The truth is, there are many misconceptions about my religion.
A friend recently asked, "How could you be a member of a racist church?" After I explained the Church's teaching, I asked my own question: why don't we challenge racism in all faiths?
By Lee Davidson SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Mormon officials are telling their top, full-time leaders that they and their spouses shoul...
Gay Pride, Mormons, Buddhists, circumcision, music, slavery and evolution. It has been a busy week on HuffPost Religion.
If the base of the GOP are not going to vote for a Mormon under any circumstances, even willing to turn to the other party's candidate, Mormons like Romney deserve to know the truth.
Sunstone began in 1974 as a magazine exploring "Mormon experience, scholarship, issues and art." For nearly 40 years, it's been a major forum for independent Mormon thought.
Trump may have a problem of his own. Exhaustive research conducted over the past several days reveals there is no credible evidence that Trump was born on this planet.
Romney's vulnerability on the signature Republican issue -- he's the godfather of Obamacare! -- has his staffers tearing their hair out. But there's another issue that could well steal center stage: religion.
I doubt very strongly that comparing the leadership of the LDS church to the leadership of Wal-Mart will help the image of the church -- not among members, and certainly not among those outside it.
Twenty years ago at BYU I took a class I'll never forget: English 352, Contemporary Literary Criticism. Each week a different group of students gave a...
By Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY -- For Mormons, or anyone else who might be wondering, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-...
