Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Anti-Mormon Violence

From the first years of its existence, the Mormon Church sparked violent opposition from other Americans. This violence ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The Great Mormon Migration

They were a people who felt called by God, chosen to create a New Jerusalem. It was fitting, then, that in order to realize ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

How the LDS Church worked and worked — and paid and paid — to get its name ‘right’ on the internet

If you think it was easy to eliminate the “Mormon” term from use by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and replace it with the faith’s full name, consider the nightmare it was ...
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Is Russell Nelson’s push to drop the ‘Mormon’ name working with Latter-day Saints and outsiders? Will it last?

Of all the moves made by President Russell M. Nelson during his nearly eight-year tenure as leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, none was as controversial and complicated to ...
Religion News Service

Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pushed it away from ‘Mormon’ – a word that has courted controversy for 200 years

(The Conversation) — 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. Yet one of his ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pushed it away from ‘Mormon’ — a word that has courted controversy for 200 years

Russell M. Nelson, a former heart surgeon and longtime church leader, was 93 years old when he became president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2018. But anyone who assumed that ...