Russell M. Nelson pushed the church away from members’ longtime nickname, ‘Mormons’ – a term that has shaped other Americans’ view of the church for 200 years.

Good news Wilson, the LDS church has just released an illustrated cartoon book about the history of polygamy among Mormons. No, it's not like the Kama Sutra. Church leaders call it an illustrated ...

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“Historians like to say, ‘No source, no history,’” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich writes in her new book, “A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870.” Until not ...

In the latest LDS Church news, the faith announces dozens of changes to the Doctrine Covenants, thanks largely to new scholarship from the Joseph Smith Papers project.

Last month, evangelical leaders gathered in D.C. for the Values Voter Summit, where disciples of the Pissed-Off Jesus harrumphed and yammered about how much America sucked. That’s when the bomb ...

Jeanne Tripplehorn reveals she skipped 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives' despite playing a Mormon in 'Big Love' and explains why she hung up her Mormon boots ...

When Harold Bloom published The American Religion in 1992, I was a college student at Brigham Young University, and I eagerly bought my own copy at the BYU bookstore. I didn’t always recognize the ...

Russell Nelson, center, sits during the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' biannual General Conference in Salt Lake City in 2019. George Frey/Getty Images Yet one of his initiatives made an ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Yet one of his initiatives made an impact that rippled far beyond the church. In ...