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Kamala Harris Steps Up Outreach to Mormon Voters in Arizona September 20, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is stepping up her efforts to win over voters who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, enlisting prominent members of the faith to make the case in pivotal Arizona that Donald Trump does not align wi...
National Study Finds Mormons are 'Most Resilient to Political Division' September 19, 2024
A new national study has found that Latter-day Saints “stand out as the faith community most resilient to political division and polarization both at the local and national levels.”The study was conducted by the same group, More in Common, behind the...
Latter-Day Saints Come to Terms With The 126-Year Racial Barrier August 27, 2024
Extraordinary.That’s the word for “Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” a 2024 book-of-the-year candidate written by Colorado State University historian Matthew L. Harris. He analyzes the restrictions that The Chu...
The Battles to Lift Mormonism's Racial Priesthood-Temple Ban August 14, 2024
The book carefully details the church’s ban on ordaining Black men to the priesthood and prohibiting Black men and women from temple ordinances, including interracial marriages. The ban, not rescinded until 1978, defined much of the 20th-century hist...
