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White House to Honor LDS Artist as a "Champion of Change"

Among the 10 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders the White House will recognize as "Champions of Change" this week is Latter-day Saint Selu Alofipo.

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Major Study of Religion Has Some Surprising Things to Say About Mormons

Though originally published in 2012, these research findings are still relevant and hold true today. Plus, they illuminate some interesting tendencies among Latter-day Saints.

Religious minorities overstated in America according to survey

The typical American underestimates how many Protestants there are in the U.S., and vastly overestimates the number of religious minorities such as Mormons, Muslims, and atheist/agnostics, according to a new study. Grey Matter Research and Consulting asked 747 U.S. adults to guess what proportion of the American population belongs to each of eight major religious groups: Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, Muslim, atheist/agnostic, believe in God or a higher power but have no particular religious preference, and any other religious group.

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Smithsonian Ranks Joseph Smith as Most Significant American Religious Leader

Visiting young Joseph Smith on Sept. 1, 1823, the angel Moroni told him God had a work for him to do and prophesied that his name would be “both good and evil spoken of among all people,” an indication of the widespread and lasting historical influence he would have.

Food and Wine" Dubs Mormon Funeral Potatoes "One of the Greatest American Triumphs

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Thanks to the Deseret News for making us aware of this story.

African-American Christians waver over vote

Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day. That's a worrisome message for the nation's first African-American president, who can't afford to lose any voters from his base in a tight race. The pastors say their congregants are asking how a true Christian could back same-sex marriage, as President Barack Obama did in May. As for Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon nominee from a major party, congregants are questioning the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its former ban on men of African descent in the priesthood.

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Tolstoy's Surprising Opinion of Mormons and 'The American Religion'

In his diary, Leo Tolstoy wrote: “God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part.”

Is 2012 good for the Mormons?

What are we to think, now that a Mormon has clinched the presidential nomination of one of America’s two major parties? The respectable Victorian men who ruled America’s politics during the 1912 election would have been stricken with chills at the thought of a presidential election a century hence pitting a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints against an African American. So looked at in one way, the 2012 election – like the 2008 – signals that America does seem to be a melting pot. African Americans and Mormons alike – like Catholics before them – once reviled and suspect minorities, are now capable participants in American public life.

Public Selects Book of Mormon as Fourth Most Influential Book in America

Though Latter-day Saints recognize its priceless truths, it appears the public recognizes the Book of Mormon as a significant part of American history.

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Mormon FBI Agent was Part of Largest Espionage Case in American History

In early February 1940, Mormon FBI agent James Ellsworth left his home in Huntington Park, California, prepared for a normal day of work. Instead, he was met by a man with a message from John Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI in Washington, D.C., instructing him to take the next possible plane to New York City.