Mormons part of the mainstream conversation
Mormons have been making headlines across the nation lately—from HBO's Big Love to California's Proposition 8, from American Idol wannabe David Archuleta to Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, from Senate majority leader Harry Reid to conservative icon Glenn Beck.
Church spokesman Michael Otterson writes essays for the Washington Post. Mormonism is discussed in an important new book, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us. And two more universities are poised to launch courses in Mormon studies.
It's all given the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a glimpse of what it's like to play in religion's big leagues. Indeed, says Mormon blogger Jana Riess in Cincinnati, Mormonism is becoming part of the "mainstream national conversation in a way that it wasn't ten years ago."
