Wagon train crossing the Platte River 1840s-1850s. Courtesy: Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. They were a people who felt called by God, chosen to create a ...

For much of Donald Trump’s presidency, scholars and journalists have invested considerable time trying to understand white evangelical Protestants’ unwavering support for the president. However, there ...

Last November, Jay Pimentel began hearing that people in his neighborhood were receiving letters about him. Pimentel lives in Alameda, Calif., a small, liberal-leaning community hanging off Oakland ...

An ex-Mormon-turned-YouTuber is sharing why so many members of her former church look alike. Alyssa Grenfell, 31, left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah to start a new life in ...

Ever since the great American Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. found inspiration in the book View of the Hebrews, published by Ethan Smith (no relation) in 1823, and after he claimed to use magical ...

Reporting from SALT LAKE CITY — Fewer than half the residents of Salt Lake County belong to the Mormon Church, according to new figures that illustrate how Utah’s largest county is becoming more ...

Most people think they know the basics about the Mormon Church. A few facts float around American culture – polygamy, missionaries in white shirts, no coffee – and most folks assume that’s the full ...

In a commencement speech given at Brigham Young University–Hawaii in 2007, Church Elder M. Russell Ballard spoke of how the world had changed since he had been a missionary in 1948. “How different the ...