The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church's struggle to distance itself from plural marriage ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Mormon church founder Joseph Smith had a teenage bride and was married to other men's wives during the early days of the faith when polygamy was practiced, a new church essay ...

Most people think they know the basics about the Mormon Church. A few facts float around American culture – polygamy, ...

ULRICH: Mormons supported suffrage for women, I think, as a way of calling the bluff of 19th-century antagonists, who claimed that women were subordinated in Mormonism. And that - in a kind of joking ...

(RNS) — Carol Lynn Pearson writes, ‘Children will be indoctrinated with the understanding that if a ‘man of authority’ tells us God wants us to do something we believe is wrong, we are to do it anyway ...

The changes are the first since 1981, and deal specifically with the church's original ban on black priesthood ordination and polygamy. One expert... Mormons Change References To Blacks, Polygamy The ...

(Reuters) - Leaders of the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday called on people to stop referring to the faith as Mormonism, although the church acknowledged one of its ...

"Oh! in the social (very social) system of the Mormons, a wife may be subjected to the grossest insult one moment and obligingly caressed the next. Her husband may—such is the caprice and so coarse ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released this week the most significant changes to its scripture since 1981. The Mormon scriptures comprise four books: the Holy Bible, the Book of ...