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Podcast explores the real life of an LDS missionary
The life and faith of an LDS sister missionary is explored in great detail this week on the Research on Religion podcast. The podcast, which is sponsored by the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion and hosted by Anthony Gill, a senior fellow at the institute, features Deseret News editorial writer Allison Pond, who served as an LDS missionary in Russia from 1997-98.
Interfaith Friends Bring Music and Energy to Historic Mormon Tabernacle
“Many Faiths, One Family” was the theme of the Interfaith Musical Tribute, which was held in the historic Mormon Tabernacle on Temple Square in Salt Lake City Sunday, 26 February 2012. The free concert was under the direction of the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable and hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Positive News Stories About Mormons from Around the Web
As part of its “Faith in Food” series, the food blog Civil Eats has a story about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ welfare system.
New iPhone app for reading the scriptures
There is a new App that is billed as an "exceptionally functional software programs with dedication to the LDS faith and a challenge from a beloved prophet to read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year."
Mormons in this moment
Bloggers have been dissecting this media-proclaimed “Mormon Moment” since its inception. And I just must feature a few of these well-written faith treatises of sorts. Bold statement: “Calling Yourself Mormon Is a Very Bold Statement," declares blogger Jessie Stay. Why? “It means you believe in modern-day revelation. It means you believe there are men today that speak to God, and God speaks to them.
Opinion: LDS foundation responds to FutureMissionary.com
The website FutureMissionary.com is designed to shake the faith of prospective missionaries by blindsiding them with troubling issues related to Church history. The site’s anonymous authors claim to be returned missionaries, and write as though they are “believing” members who naively accept and promote controversial statements and ideas without question.
Befriending the LDS missionaries
My early education of the Mormon faith, as well as the Jehovah Witness, wasn't the most enlightening. I was being babysat with my brother at Nanny Blackburn's home. She lived at the very end of a little lane in the Johnson Trailer Park in Timberlea, N.S.
A First: University of Utah May Offer a Mormon Studies Minor
With Salt Lake City as the global headquarters of the LDS Church, you might assume the University of Utah, the state’s flagship school, is a major hub for scholars studying and teaching about the Mormon faith.
Romney would like to see ‘Book of Mormon’
So what does Mitt Romney, perhaps the best-known Mormon in the country, think of “The Book of Mormon,” the Broadway musical send-up of his faith, complete with profanity and sexually explicit humor?
GOP to Mitt Romney: Own your Mormonism
Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith has hovered over his 20-year political career like a thick layer of incense at Easter Mass. Negative perceptions of the religion so worried his 2008 presidential team that the dilemma had its own acronym in campaign power point presentations: TMT (That Mormon Thing). Worries persisted this year as skeptical evangelical Christians flocked to other candidates—any other candidate it seemed — causing Romney to avoid all things Mormon in public.