(RNS) — The unknowns about eternal polygamy are ‘answered with speculation and myths, creating undue fear and angst,’ says the author of a new book. (RNS) — Ten years ago, as I finished up teaching a ...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Best-selling author Jon Krakauer has built a reputation on gripping portrayals of those who push their physical limits. But now the writer has set his sights on spiritual extremes, ...
(RNS) — After denying that the 1886 pro-polygamy 'Taylor revelation' existed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints quietly published it on Saturday. (RNS) — In the Church of Jesus Christ of ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released this week the most significant changes to its scripture since 1981. The Mormon scriptures comprise four books: the Holy Bible, the Book of ...
Every schoolboy knows that the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) used to practice “celestial marriage,” better known as polygamy. Last summer sombre Idaho Novelist Vardis ...
Wording about race and polygamy are among substantial changes made to the four books of scripture central to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's the first time the Mormon scriptures ...
The polygamy of Mormonism’s second prophet-president, Brigham Young, is well known. Until the late 1990s, however, many members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had no idea that ...
(RNS) — In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a religion built on modern revelation, perhaps no revelation has caused as much controversy as one attributed to President John Taylor, who ...