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Note: The following essay contains some spoilers. But not too many. American Primeval , Netflix’s flashy (and quite gory) new series depicts the clash between zealous Mormons, imperial federal troops…

Last week, the LDS Church formally came out in support of the federal Respect for Marriage Act (RFMA), a legislative initiative that would repeal the notorious Bill Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act…

Jana Reiss, a senior columnist for Religion News Service, recently surveyed a number of recent television programs that “ present Mormonism in an unflattering light .” The column’s headline claims…

I was a twenty-year-old missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Washington DC in 2003. My companion and I, temporarily serving in a rural community about an hour southeast of…

In 1995, in a document called the Family Proclamation , leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made explicit what had long been an oft-discussed but little documented element of…

News outlets like Iowa Starting Line and The Salt Lake Tribune have recently reported on a group called The Heartland Research Group (HRG) which has taken to the cornfields of Montrose, Iowa in search…

Lynn A. Thompson, President of the Priesthood of the Apostolic United Brethren, the largest Mormon fundamentalist religion, quietly passed away this week on October 5, 2021. ‘Mormon fundamentalist…

This year marks the tenth anniversary of The Book of Mormon the musical on Broadway. If this show were an actual Mormon, a tenth is what would be given away as a tithe to God. Thanks to the pandemic…

Over the last year, I’ve scrolled past social media posts by members of diverse religious backgrounds and political opinions. However, because my ethnographic research is based in Mormon…

Spoiler: this recap covers the investigative developments found throughout the three episodes of Murder Among the Mormons , a new documentary released this week by Netflix. A recap of the first…