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Playing the Mormon card
During the long Republican primary season, the highest-profile attack on Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith came in October during the Values Voters Summit in Washington, when the pastor who introduced Rick Perry to the assembly, Robert Jeffress of Dallas’s First Baptist Church, told reporters that “born-again followers of Christ should always prefer a competent Christian” for the presidency and dismissed Mormonism as a pseudo-Christian “cult.”
Sliding in Sochi: Kate Hansen
The air is crisp, the ice is smooth, and the crowd is buzzing at the Olympic Park in Park City, Utah. Over a loudspeaker, an announcer introduces the next run at the October luge World Cup seeding race. Up at the start, Kate Hansen (’17) lies down on her sled and grips the ice with her spiked gloves to push off. Within seconds she is halfway down the track, a 75 mile-per-hour yellowish blur.
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?
University of Virginia Names Scholar to New Mormon Studies Chair
Kathleen Flake, a scholar of early Mormonism, has been named the first occupant of a new chair in Mormon studies at the University of Virginia. The chair, named for the historian Richard Lyman Bushman and supported by a $3 million endowment from anonymous donors, is the first at a major public university, and the first in the East.
Washington Post: The Mormon retirement plan
In its latest Health and Retirement Study, the National Institute on Aging says that 2011 is a banner year in American demographics: it’s when the first Baby Boomers turn 65.
Senator Joseph Lieberman to speak at BYU
Sen. Joseph Lieberman will speak at a Brigham Young University forum Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 11:05 a.m. in the Marriott Center. A question-and-answer session will immediately follow the forum. The title of his address will be "Faith and the Public Square," related to his recently published book, “The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath.”
The Mormon 'persecution complex'
Among self-conscious Mormons and attuned outside observers, there is a popular perception that Mormons have a peculiar sense of their own reproach. Both their beliefs and their sociocultural history, some believe, breed Latter-day Saints to be acutely aware that they are beleaguered in broader society, a feeling that’s sometimes called a “persecution complex.” Mormons are, according to this line of thought, highly sensitive to their own social marginalization. Because of this sensitivity, they are likely to see hostility to their faith, whatever the circumstances.
How LDS Missionaries Could be Affected by Renewed US-Cuba Relations
Mormons don't need much imagination to think about what normalized U.S.-Cuba relations could mean for the LDS Church in the Pearl of the Antilles.
New Bible game show aims for religious audience
The world’s best-selling book has made it to the small screen in what is thought to be the first religiously themed game show on a secular network. “The American Bible Challenge” tests teams’ knowledge of the Old and New Testaments in a quiz show interspersed with stories of the competitors and the charities they play for.
Embattled Mormon blogger leaves LDS Church
Rather than wait for possible excommunication from the LDS Church, Mormon blogger David Twede has resigned his membership in the Utah-based faith. Twede — who was accused of apostasy for writing critical Web essays about LDS history, temple worship and contemporary issues — took the action during an "open mic session" last week at the Exmormon Foundation’s annual conference at the DoubleTree Suites in Salt Lake City.