Ashlie Rasmussen of Falls Church, Virginia, wrote an excellent letter to the editor for the Washington Post, titled “No Place for Polygamy in Mormon Church”.
The letter is in response to the Post’s article titled “Polygamists Fight to Be Seen as Part of Mainstream Society”, which LDS News Watch previously reported about.
The text of the letter [...]
The Washington Post published an article last week titled “Polygamists Fight to Be Seen As Part of Mainstream Society”.
Like many articles dealing with polygamy, this one seemingly obfuscates the distinction between religious organizations that practice polygamy and the LDS Church, which does not. The Church does not practice polygamy, and members of the Church found [...]
MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson contends that some Southern Republicans consider Mormonism a cult instead of a brand of Christianity. Mormons insist they are indeed Christians, worshipping the God of the Old and New Testaments. Michael Graham replied that it may not matter anyway:
The last time I checked, evangelicals didn’t consider Judaism a form of [...]
On November 20, The Salt Lake Tribune posted an article titled “Many voters say they would never vote for Mormon president”. From the article:
Some 43 percent of Americans wouldn’t even consider voting for a Mormon for president, according to a new poll that shows an increase from previous surveys in the number of [...]
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young have both been named in Atlantic Magazine’s top 100 most influential Americans.
An honestly enquiring Christian asks why Mormons don’t worship the cross. Writer Lee Thompson, a non-Mormon, goes overboard in the answer section of this article from the Journal Gazette located in Charleston, Ill.Â
Mr. Thompson says that “Mormons never use crosses anywhere, perhaps because Mormons believe Jesus’ death on the cross is insufficient to obtain eternal salvation.”
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Perhaps the [...]
For about a year now, I have been collecting and tracking news articles about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (AKA the Mormon Church). I use various online resources to find and track these articles.
Over the last year, I have found some very interesting things. As you can imagine, there have been plenty [...]