SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – The common image of Mormon missionaries has long been two young men wearing white shirts and ties walking through neighborhoods, knocking door-to-door. But in a few years, that ...
The 18-month or 2-year stint many young Mormons spend as a missionary is often referred to as serving a mission. Now maybe it will also be called a serving mission; as missionaries in three areas ...
Heretic is about a pair of Mormon missionaries who come to speak to a reclusive man named Mr. Reed (played by Hugh Grant). He appears genuinely interested in converting to the missionaries’ religion, ...
Julia Sweeney—in keeping with the Catholic faith in which she was raised—has a confession to make. The encounter with Mormon missionaries that she chronicles in her poignant, funny journey-to-atheism ...
But the movie’s horror also turns on the unique history of Mormonism and the cultural position of its young, bright-eyed, and faithful devotees, one that hits close to home for Mormons who have served ...
Heretic is about a pair of Mormon missionaries: Sister Barnes (played by Sophie Thatcher) and Sister Paxton (played by Chloe East) who get kidnapped by a creep named Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant, revealing he ...
As a proselytizing faith with a committed corps of volunteer missionaries, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is forever driven to boost its ranks and broaden its reach. It did so last ...
SALT LAKE CITY • As Mormon leaders seek to add more senior couples to their shrinking missionary force, they're hoping that less will mean more: less time and expense, more missionaries. The Church of ...
As a companion to recent RD pieces “5 Ways the Internet Has Been Trying to Kill Religion” and “The Internet Is Not Killing Religion, Religion is Killing Religion,” see this long essay from the ...
Mormonism is having a moment. On TikTok and Instagram; in hit stage and TV shows; amongst the believers forming snaking queues outside churches from Salt Lake City to South Kensington. In the era of ...