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With Romney In Spotlight, His Church Steps Up Ads
Just as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney tries to overcome unease about his Mormon faith in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, a new ad campaign promoting the religion is drawing attention. "I'm a Mormon" billboards and television commercials aimed at improving the religious group's public image have surfaced over the past week in states almost certain to be battlegrounds for next year's presidential contest.
Poll: Mormons least likely to be smokers than other religious adherents
New polling data from Gallup revealed that Mormons are less likely to be smokers than adherents of any other faith. “A number of religions have formal or informal constraints on smoking, and presumably those who are most adherent to those religions, as measured by church attendance, would be less likely to smoke,” Frank Newport and Igor Himelfarb wrote for Gallup.
100-Year-Old Woman Continues to Serve As Chorister By Memorizing Hymns
As Relief Society sisters serve in their callings they accomplish the work of Relief Society by increasing faith, strengthening home and family, and helping those in need. They recognize that enduring to the end in keeping sacred covenants is an essential part of the Plan of Happiness.
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Latter-day Saint Life
What One Catholic Writer Would Ask Pope Francis About Mormons
Recently, Faith Counts highlighted the benefits of LDS missionary work in an article written by a Catholic.
Opinion: LDS legislators bend to tough master
The hardcore right wing of the Republican Party in Utah has walked a delicate tightrope throughout the immigration reform debate since most of its members are adherents to the Mormon faith. They believe in following the advice of church leaders but also are tethered to the sometimes contrary counsel of conservative fundamentalist Phyllis Schlafly.
From the Church
Understanding Doctrine Is Key to Missionary Work, Elder Cook Says
Opportunities and challenges arise from the intersection of agency, opposition, and faith in missionary work, said Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Ann Romney ‘stay-at-home mom’ debate: Mormons react
The public dust-up over Ann Romney and stay-home mothers played out in a particular way in Romney’s own community of Mormon women, who are twice as likely to be housewives as non-Mormons. Mormon culture and preaching is strongly protective of distinct gender roles, with church members more likely than Americans of any other faith group to say it’s better for women to stay home and men to work outside the house.
France's first Mormon temple sparks controversy
The United States may get its first Mormon president this year, if Republican candidate Mitt Romney prevails in his bid. But in France, the Mormon faith is viewed with deep suspicion and a project to build the country's first Mormon temple is proving to be controversial. The temple is expected to be located in the Paris suburb of Chesnay.
How NOT to Investigate Mitt Romney’s Mormon Ties
Earlier this week, Mother Jones' Tim Murphy tried to connect the dots between Mitt Romney and Cleon Skousen, the ultra-conservative, anti-Communist LDS political theorist made famous by Glenn Beck. Murphy dug out an August 2007 radio interview Romney did with a Rush Limbaugh-esque political talk jock in Iowa, who, after goading Romney on his faith, turned the subject to Skousen.
Cultural celebration heralds rededication of Buenos Aires Argentina Temple
Over the past several years, temple dedications across the world have been colorfully augmented by cultural events that allow the young people of the new temple district to celebrate their heritage, patriotism and faith.The events — be they in Samoa, Ukraine, El Salvador or some place in between — never fail to deliver. Youth by the thousands come together in native costumes to perform familiar folk dances, sing national anthems and commemorate their own unique Latter-day Saint history.