Peggy Fletcher Stack
Mormons lower age for missionaries, setting off changes for parents, women, schools
c. 2012 Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY (RNS)
Call it a change for the ages.
...Now official: Mormons may drink Coke, Pepsi
Perhaps reporters, bloggers, outsiders and even many Mormons will now acknowledge that the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not forbid drinking cola.
...Mormon women seeking middle ground to greater equality
c. 2012 Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) For some Mormon feminists, there can be only one goal on the road to gender equality: ordination to the all-male priesthood.
...Mormons have complex relationship with America
Whenever Americans celebrate flag-waving holidays, some Mormons may outdo their neighbors in fireworks and fanfare to express their outsized patriotism....
Should gay Mormons marry women? Some say it's an option
c. 2012 Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) In the summer of 2008, Sarah Irish Nicholson's well-ordered Mormon life was unraveling, and she needed someone to talk to.
...Black Mormons face a political choice like no other
c. 2012 Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) Twenty years ago, who would have predicted the 2012 U.S. presidential race would pit a black incumbent against a white Mormon?
...'Old Catholics' embrace new movements
c. 2012 Salt Lake Tribune (RNS) Archbishop Michael Seneco, of Washington, D.C., is a gay man who plans to marry his longtime partner in September.
...How did Mormons grow so fast? They changed how they counted
c. 2012 Religion News Service SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the Mormons' growth rate, you were right....
Before politics, Romney was a Mormon bishop
The Mitt Romney who is on the campaign trail is often depicted as wealthy, wooden and out of touch with the working class....
Do romance novels lead to better sex for Mormon women?
OGDEN, Utah (RNS) Mormon leaders have condemned romance novels as "soft
porn," and literary critics long have railed against these fictional
yarns as "dope for dupes."
Calif. man becomes a pioneer for gay Mormons
(RNS) Mitch Mayne is not the first openly gay person to hold a key
leadership post within the all-volunteer clergy of the Church of Jesus
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With spotlight on Mormon faith, scholars gather to defend it
(RNS) Mormon founder Joseph Smith may have declared all churches to be
wrong, even apostate, but he also defined Mormonism as "an inclusivist
...