Mormons
Overview
Scholars disagree on whether Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), can rightly be considered an ethnic group. Using survey results, sociologist Ar...
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On the morning of September 11, 1857, a wagon train of 120 men, women and children en route from Arkansas to California were murdered near Cedar City, Utah. The killers, history suggests, were like...
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On a Sunday afternoon in late December, Elna Baker stood in front of a class of around 20 young men in ties and women in skirts. Ms. Baker, who is 25 and has red hair and a bright red vintage coat,...
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Polygamy, missionaries on bicycles and the Osmonds.What most people know or think they know about Mormons might be summed up in those few words. The renowned Tabernacle Choir and, perhaps, quarterb...
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Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"The article, to be p...
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Mitt Romney has benefited from the financial support of his fellow Mormons as he runs for president, and he hasn't shied from returning the favor as he conducts the business of his campaign.When it...
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Republican Mitt Romney, seeking to become the first Mormon president, said Monday he would miss the humility and wisdom of church President Gordon B. Hinckley and hopes to attend his funeral in Sal...
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Key tenets of the Mormon faith:_Nature of God: God once was a mortal who became an eternal being after a great trial._Jesus Christ: Christ was God's first-born spirit child, his only earthly child ...
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(Reuters) - The world leader of Mormons, Gordon B.
Hinckley, who presided over a period of intensive growth for
the religion, died Sunday at the age of 97, officials said. The following are facts ...
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Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says he won't be attending "September Dawn," a movie about the killing of 120 unarmed Arkansas pioneers by Mormon settlers in Utah in 1857.Romney's ancestors includ...
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