A top Mormon church leader who has said he learned in or about 2020 that his brother may have molested children many years earlier — possibly involving a congregation in the Chicago region — didn’t notify police or child welfare…[Continue Reading...]
Heather Gay reflects on her Mormon upbringing and explains why she now believes it had cult-like control. Watch video https://www.usatoday.com/videos/entertainment/entertainthis/2025/11/11/heather-gay-shares-why-she-now-calls-mormonism-a-cult/87216468007/[Continue Reading...]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Russell M. Nelson, the oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Saturday night at the age of 101, church officials announced. Nelson died at his home in Salt Lake City,…[Continue Reading...]
When Madeline Woodward discovered ex-Mormon influencers on social media, it was her first glimpse of people finding joy after leaving the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Woodward, a descendant of church pioneers, had struggled for years to reconcile…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — more commonly known as the Mormon Church — is one of the most rigidly hierarchical institutions in the world. According to Mormon cosmology and belief, ecclesiastical leaders are directly appointed from…[Continue Reading...]
Something we know all too well is that Mormonism and queerness just don’t mix. We’ve talked about “ex-gay” mormons before—who aren’t actually ex-gay at all—as well as Mormons who remain married to their wives, despite openly cruising other dudes. But…[Continue Reading...]
Nationals leader David Littleproud has called for changes to the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement following a spending spree by the US Mormon church in which almost half a billion dollars’ worth of Australian farmland fell into foreign ownership in little…[Continue Reading...]
A Pennsylvania attorney with a registered address in Palmyra has given up his license to practice law as the result of child sexual assault convictions in Virginia and pending child sex charges in Berks County. On July 30, the Pennsylvania…[Continue Reading...]
My family have been members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints since 1850, when my great-great-grandfather became our first Mormon convert and made the journey to Utah. Seven generations later, I was born in Colorado. My parents…[Continue Reading...]
How could a young, relatively uneducated farm boy from upstate New York in the late 1820s have written something like The Book of Mormon? Was it inspired by God or is it merely the product of Joseph Smith's vivid imagination…[Continue Reading...]
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