Everyone knows about the events of 9/11. But few are aware that, a century and a half before, September 11 was associated with a ghastly act of violence that was similarly driven by religious zealotry and a desire to punish…[Continue Reading...]
While American Primeval portrays its take on Brigham Young as largely evil, the real-life man was a bit more complicated than that. The hit new Netflix mini-series, sets itself against the backdrop of real-world American history, following the battle for…[Continue Reading...]
For two self-identified “Exmormons,” our conservation nevertheless begins in a way that feels entrenched in Mormonism. “We might be cousins,” says Alyssa Grenfell, author of How to Leave the Mormon Church. We both descend from the same Mormon polygamist stock.…[Continue Reading...]
OMAHA (DTN) -- The real estate arm of the Mormon Church is growing larger this month after another corporate company announced a deal to sell it 46 farms totaling 41,554 acres for $289 million in an all-cash deal. Denver-based publicly…[Continue Reading...]
‘Salt Lake is a very queer place,’ said the historian J Seth Anderson after he and his husband became the first gay couple to be married in Utah, in 2013. When most non-Utahns think of the state, probably the last…[Continue Reading...]
Interest in Mormons and their religion has reached its peak with the scandalous The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives hitting our small screens. There’s also been plenty of Mormon drama on TikTok, from trad wives to the #MomTok scandal that…[Continue Reading...]
The investment arm of the Mormon Church has secured the expansive 26,885 ha “Worral Creek Aggregation” in southern Queensland. Melbourne-based Warakirri Asset Management, in partnership with Alkira Farms, a subsidiary of US agricultural investment giant Farmland Reserve, has acquired one…[Continue Reading...]
A former Mormon couple have revealed a lesser known 'sacred' and secretive ritual that happens in the church for only a select few - known as the second anointing. Alyssa Grenfell, 31, grew up in an ultra-strict household but fled…[Continue Reading...]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known widely as the Mormon church, issued a slew of new policies this week expanding its restrictions on transgender members. The policies, released Monday, include rules barring trans people from working with…[Continue Reading...]
If there were ever a community of people that commands endless intrigue, it’s Mormons. The religion preaches such interesting teachings of Christianity that interviews with Mormon students on TikTok regularly go viral (usually because they’ll happily choose to hypothetically kill…[Continue Reading...]
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