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Republicans delivered this week another crack in their party's stained-glass ceiling, muscling Mormon Mitt Romney one step closer to securing his party's elusive nod. Gone, it seems, are the days of a protestant Republican presidential nominee. But while the three leading contenders for the GOP nod have all found themselves outside the religious mainline, all the analysts agree, somehow: Romney has a Mormon problem.
The Rev. Samuel Wynn admired Billy Graham and his evangelistic association for decades, joining its spiritual crusades and urging fellow Christians to do the same. But no more."I will never again support anything by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,” said Wynn, the superintendent of a United Methodist Church district in Fayetteville, N.C.
Five religious organizations, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, filed an amicus ("friend-of-the-court") brief today with the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The brief addresses two cases before the court that seek to redefine traditional marriage.
It’s Saturday morning and most meetinghouses for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are a bustle with congregation members in casual clothes vacuuming the chapel, cleaning bathrooms, scrubbing windows, wiping down doorknobs, and taking out the trash.
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.
Long before the days of YouTube and broadband Internet, the LDS Church was sharing video content with followers around the world using technology it says is still essential to spreading a global message. The white satellite dishes tucked behind meetinghouses from Utah to Thailand help members stay connected with church leadership, attend training meetings and participate in firesides and the church’s biannual General Conference.
In the pool of high school players considered strong enough to make it to the NBA, 17-year-old Jabari Parker is a big fish. Jabari is a standout, and not just for his size – he’s 6-foot-9 and weighs 220 pounds – or his 3.7 high school GPA. What also makes him unique is that he’s an African-American Mormon.
Monthly Theme: We Believe in God the Eternal Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.
Lone Survivor. Maybe you read the book. Maybe you saw the movie. But Jeff Peterson of the Tucson West Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints lived the rescue ordeal.