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'The Mormon Question' not new to Idaho politics
Mormons have a complicated political history in Idaho. Though members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were among the first permanent white settlers in the territory, they couldn’t vote, hold office or serve on juries.
Conclusion of Historic Vatican Summit on Strengthening Marriage
The historic summit that brought together a diverse group of global faith leaders concluded Wednesday.
Poem: 'The Restoration,' with Bible References
The time had come. Prophecy fulfilled [Micah 3:6]
Memphis news channel features Mormon missionaries
You may have noticed them in your neighborhood, young men in shirts and ties traveling by bicycle, young ambassadors for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Latter-day Saint Life
The Powerful Purpose of Prayer
I was recently drawn to a TED talk by Harvard researcher Amy Cuddy about how body language shapes who we are.
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.
The Golden Plates in Pop Culture
The mix of religious imagery and material/popular culture is, of course, not unique to Mormonism. Protestants and Catholics like to inject their pop culture with a little bit of faith as well, and I’m sure other religions do the same. But of course Mormonism does have something unique when it comes to Christianity, namely the gold plates. And these gold plates find their way into everyday culture in a variety of ways. See here some examples.
Neighborhood protests Mormon temple
A Phoenix neighborhood is taking its feud against a proposed Mormon temple to the streets because they are unhappy about the church's design.
Romney, Mormonism and money
My Sunday column — written before the Paul Ryan pick, but still relevant in its aftermath — argues that Mitt Romney’s understandable reluctance to talk about his Mormon faith has cut him off from what would otherwise be a very natural part of his campaign narrative, both in personal and philosophical terms. My argument runs counter to some of the arguments in Adam Gopnik’s tour d’horizon of Mormonism in a recent issue of the New Yorker, and particularly this passage:
Mormons and Baptists compete for converts
Jake Pulsipher's first day as a working missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began at 6:30 a.m. with prayer and exercise, followed by breakfast and study. Then he put on a black suit, white shirt, and red tie, along with his official name tag, and headed out to knock on doors and tell people about Jesus. In doing so, he became the latest of 20,000 Mormon missionaries in the United States.