Mormons aim to capture best stories from grandmas
The Mormon church’s family history research center is launching a social media campaign encouraging youngsters around the world to share their best stories about their grandmothers. The #MeetMyGrandma...
View Article16,000 Mormon youth participate in Ogden cultural celebration
Youth from the LDS Church’s Ogden Utah Temple district, about 16,000 of them, participated in a cultural celebration Saturday at the Dee Events Center. With a theme of “Shine the Light” in advance of...
View ArticleMormon church's History Museum closing for a year
Just as Christ is at the center of the LDS faith, so, too, do Mormon leaders want him at the center of a renovated museum. The 30-year-old Church History Museum west of Temple Square in downtown Salt...
View ArticlePress barred from center for Mormon women's meeting
For the first time, the Mormon general women’s meeting — being held in the LDS Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City on Saturday night — no longer will be open to reporters or photographers to...
View ArticleLDS meeting: Feminists seeking change find it in subtle wording
Mormon feminists may have been surprised by some subtle changes in vocabulary and approach Saturday night at the general women’s meeting for all LDS females age 8 and older. Dieter F. Uchtdorf...
View ArticleIn Utah, Mormon chapels are here, there and everywhere
An old joke says it’s impossible to throw a pebble in any direction in Utah without hitting an LDS chapel. Or maybe two. A data analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune shows that wisecrack may not be far...
View ArticleMormons recall sermons about prayer, women, flawed leaders
Mormons listen to dozens of talks by dozens of LDS leaders every six months in General Conference. Sometimes the messages seem to blur together. Sometimes they are heard and quickly forgotten....
View ArticleMormons' FamilySearch reaches deal to put a billion obits online
More than a billion records from historical obituaries will be available online in the future, but it’s going to take a lot of volunteer help to make them searchable. FamilySearch International, a...
View Article2 bogus Mormon missionaries convicted in robbery
Las Vegas • A Nevada jury has found two men who were accused of posing as Mormon missionaries guilty of kidnapping and armed robbery in a case that could get them life in prison for a violent Las...
View ArticleComing soon to a theater near you: 'Meet the Mormons'
On Oct. 10, in about 200 theaters around the country — including many in Utah — a documentary about Mormons will be screening next door to “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”...
View ArticleAnn Cannon: Pajama church? How to watch Mormon conference
I still remember the profound horror a friend felt when she watched a televised session of an LDS General Conference with her new husband’s family for the first time. They wear church clothes, she...
View ArticleMormon leader foresees 'strong missionary force for years to come'
The following excerpts come from an interview with David F. Evans, executive director of the LDS Church’s Missionary Department: How many mission president couples are from Utah, United States and the...
View ArticleThe changing life and times of Mormon mission presidents' wives
Raelene Hill grew tired of those daily middle-of-the-night calls from her young Mormon missionaries. Sure, stomach and digestion problems are endemic in West Africa, thought Hill, who oversees the LDS...
View ArticleKirby: Mormon conference talks in Spanish, German? I say amen
Forty years ago in a sweltering South American apartment, I crouched around a radio with several other Mormon missionaries to see if we could tune in General Conference. Static came first, then we...
View ArticleMormon conference schedule
LDS General Conference is Saturday and Sunday at the Conference Center in downtown Salt Lake City. Saturday’s sessions are at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. with an all-male priesthood meeting at 6 p.m. Sunday’s...
View ArticleA 'tour' of the new Church History Museum before it reopens
The LDS Church History Museum is closing Oct. 6 for renovation and will reopen next year with a renewed emphasis on Jesus Christ and the faith’s founder, Joseph Smith. Maryanne Andrus, an exhibit...
View ArticleBe civil in opposing gay marriage, Mormon apostle says
If LDS opposition to same-sex marriage does not prevail in the United States, Mormons should respond graciously and “practice civility with our adversaries,” a leading church apostle counseled...
View ArticleSome women get into Mormon priesthood session
Provo • With little fanfare but much trepidation, members of the Ordain Women movement attended their first-ever LDS general priesthood session Saturday night — albeit at satellite sites and not at...
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