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With the Church encouraging members to share their faith online, faithful Latter-day Saints everywhere have risen to the challenge. But along with sharing uplifting quotes from prophets and filling out Mormon.org profiles, members on Twitter have also started an online Mormon community dubbed #TwitterStake. It’s most entertaining legacy? A conversation hash tag: #MormonProbs.

NY Times features LDS pageant

In an auburn wig and skull earrings, Bryn Clark is a banner carrier in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ lavish annual pageant — a 750-actor, special-effects-filled portrayal of the Book of Mormon held for a week here at the religion’s birthplace.But each night before the pageant begins, she has another role to play, bringing her faith into the crowd.

Church Files with Supreme Court on Same-Sex Marriage

Representing the faith communities of more than 100 million Americans, The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Association of Evangelicals, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod filed the brief collectively.

From the Church

Apostle creates first stake in India

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) is a global faith with more members outside the United States than inside. Another sign of the Church’s worldwide reach came 27 May as Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles organized the Hyderabad India Stake — India’s first stake.A stake is an administrative unit composed of numerous congregations (called wards and branches) within a geographic area (similar to what other faiths might call a diocese). The Church operates 2,946 stakes worldwide.

Latino Mormons speaking out against Romney over immigration issue

When Honduran-born Antonella Cecilia Packard converted to the Mormon Faith 20 years ago, she said it was like "coming home." The Catholic-educated Packard, who grew up in "the middle of Mayan ruins," appreciated the faith's strong sense of family and conservative values. She also saw her own history in the Book of Mormon with stories of migrations, tragedies and triumphs of a people many Mormons believe are the ancestors of some present-day Latinos.

Missouri remains land of religious promise for Mormons

In 1831, Mormon founder Joseph Smith declared that the righteous would gather in Independence, Mo., to greet the Second Coming of Jesus Christ — just one of the prophecies that estranged his faith from traditional Christianity. Thousands of converted Mormons moved from Ohio and upstate New York to claim their New Jerusalem. Disputes with Missourians led to a bloody Mormon War that ended only when the state’s governor issued an “extermination order” to expel Smith’s followers.

How divorce affects young adults' religiosity

Elizabeth Marquardt still hasn't found a congregation where she fits in. The 42-year-old married mother of two, whose parents divorced when she was a toddler, could be ministering over a congregation. She holds a divinity degree, reads the Bible every day, believes in God and as a researcher, has surveyed thousands of youth and adults whose faith was either shaken or steeled by their parents splitting up.

Non-LDS faith wants high school land for its own seminary

Students at the new high school under construction in Draper could get a unique opportunity — release time seminary taught by Summum, a Salt Lake City-based religion that practices meditation and mummification. On Monday, Canyons School District received a letter from Su Menu, president of Summum, inquiring about purchasing land adjacent to the planned schoolhouse, which has been designated as a “seminary” on an architectural site plan. The $55-million high school is scheduled to open in fall 2013.

From the Church

Background info on newly announced temples

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to build new temples across the globe to meet the needs of an expanding worldwide membership. Today the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced six new temples during the morning session of the faith’s 181st Semiannual General Conference.

Latter-day Saint Life

Different Faiths Can Bring the Community Together

For the past nine years, my wife, Patsy, and I have had the opportunity of serving as Public Affairs Directors in Southern Utah for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. You might ask what that is and how it gets done. We have wondered the same thing at times.