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Washington Post: What makes Mormons tick?
I’ve lost count of the journalists who have called the offices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over the past few months, wanting to figure out what makes Mormons tick. At peak times, we’ve taken several dozen calls in a single day. The total number must be up in the hundreds, maybe more than a thousand. And, of course, we’ve seen a steady procession of media visitors to Salt Lake City to look at everything from the world’s largest missionary training center to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to how we handle humanitarian services.
LDS Billionaire's Success Started by Paying Tithing
Carlos Wizard Martins learned to work at an early age. His father drove a truck from town to town in Brazil selling goods and young Carlos would go with him during school breaks. Far from a vacation, Carlos would go into the stores, take orders and deliver the goods while his father sat in the truck listening to the radio.
Gallup Poll: Mormons most religious group in U.S.
Sixty-nine percent of American adults are very or moderately religious, based on self-reports of the importance of religion in their daily lives and attendance at religious services. Within that group, 40% are very religious, meaning that they attend religious services regularly and they say religion is important in their daily lives.These data are based on more than 320,000 interviews conducted by Gallup between Jan. 2 and Nov. 30 of this year. Similar data going back to 2008 form the basis of the new book God Is Alive and Well: The Future of Religion in America.
Catholic Leader Praises President Eyring for LDS Family Values
In between meetings with LDS Church apostles, the archbishop of Philadelphia spoke at BYU on Friday and said differences between Mormons and Catholics shouldn't preclude a friendship aligned against the decay of religious freedom in the United States.
Marco Rubio and the all-Mormon ticket
If Mitt Romney does eventually capture the Republican nomination, he’ll probably need to pick a running mate who can be for him what Sarah Palin was for John McCain: someone who can both balance out the ticket and excite conservatives. The list of people who potentially fit that bill is fairly short, but Florida Senator Marco Rubio has to be on it. Or at least, he had to be on it, until Thursday, when a story published on BuzzFeed suggested that Rubio might not actually balance Romney out so well, at least when it came to religion.
Latter-day Saint Life
Church Fund Helps Pay for Funerals of Missionaries
This week Sister Brittany Scadlock died in Buenos Aires, Argentina from E.coli that weakened her system and put her into cardiac arrest. She had been hospitalized and at the time of her death her parents were in California seeking expedited passports to be with her.
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From the Church
See President Uchtdorf Help Serve Homeless on Christmas Day (Photos)
Nearly 1,000 homeless and low-income people lined up at the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Hall on Christmas night to enjoy a warm Christmas dinner.
Media personality leaving Houston area for high-level Mormon post
After 35 years in the Houston area - first as an Oilers' Luv Ya Blue-days quarterback and then a longtime KHOU-TV sports director - Giff Nielsen and his wife, Wendy, are heading to Salt Lake City to serve as a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Nielsen, 58, will be part of what is called the First Quorum of the Seventy and his job for the next year will be to learn how church headquarters operates and to speak at church conferences around the world.
Is Mormonism a cult?
To many Americans, Mormon theology seems an impenetrable stew of biblical literalism, weird relics and a supernaturalism so aggressive as to border on science fiction, stirred together by a parade of shady self-declared prophets, from the frontier polygamist Joseph Smith to the complacent, dark-suited elders who run the church today. "Plutocratic oligarchs," Harold Bloom labeled them: men (all men; women are barred from participation in the Mormon priesthood) either cynically manipulating the religion for personal gain or themselves taken in. Does this confection make the religion a cult, as commentators as wide on the spectrum as the evangelical Baptist Robert Jeffress and the acerbic atheist Christopher Hitchens have speculated?
'Why I'm a Mormon': Steve Young
Editor's note: This is an excerpt from "Why I'm a Mormon" edited by Joseph A. Cannon, which includes the testimonies of 53 influential members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. When I was young, I had trouble leaving home to go to school. In second grade, my mom had to walk me to school and then stay in class so that I wouldn't run home. Home has always been a centerpiece in my life, both as a physical place and as a state of mind. For many years I have contemplated, even yearned, for an eternal home and have made it a quest to find it.