Good article today from the Pepperdine Graphic on the media’s misperception of Romney. Despite rock star credentials, some media outlets seem bent on highlighting the differences between Mormonism and other Christian churches as a way of discrediting Romney.
Romney is top in academics, top in business, top in non-profit work, and top in politics. Not [...]
The Church has recently launched a web site to coordinate its efforts with the tech community. Tom Welch was hired to be the manager of this tech community, which can offer feedback and suggestions on Church technology initiatives. There is also a live forum on the site, the first ever forum on a [...]
The Dallas Morning News printed a few letters to the editor raising concerns about the many recent news stories about Mitt Romney’s mormonism and its potential impact on his run for the presidential office.
The letters note the imbalance in the media when focusing on Romney’s religion (or Senator Reid, for that matter) when members of [...]
USA Today has a good article on Mitt Romney and the Church, saying there’s no need to fear a Mormon presidential candidate. The article suggests that Romney quickly make a public statement, in a large venue, to quell any fears that he would answer to Salt Lake City or that his Mormonism would affect [...]
Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney has one over-arching goal for her four-hour production “The Mormons,” which airs this spring on PBS.
“I hope that most of the stereotypes — ideally, all of them — will be blown away,” she told the Deseret Morning News on Saturday. “Because so many of them are just based on ignorance. Ignorance [...]
Six years after Brigham Young University closed its Jerusalem campus because of concerns over terrorism, 44 Mormon students from Salt Lake City, Utah, arrived Wednesday to study for a semester in the capital.
Dessert News columnist, noted Utah Democrat and former Salt Lake City mayoral candidate, Frank Pignanelli offers a top 10 list for non-Mormon success in “Mormon Utah”.  Â
The Economist is running a story titled “A modern prophet goes global” about the LDS Church’s international expansion.
While mostly accurate and worthy of the reader’s attention, a couple parts are on shaky ground. One such example:
Douglas Davies, a professor at Britain’s Durham University, says the Latter-day Saints are too centralised to be a “world [...]