Mormons We Know
Mormon church skips pre-session meeting with lawmakers
For the first time in decades, legislative leaders didn’t hold their annual pre-session meeting with LDS Church officials, but the reason for the change in the practice is unclear. Senate Majority Leader Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, said he thinks the change might be related to heightened...
Mitt Romney hopes millions he tithes to LDS Church isn't politicized
Mormon Life says: The public has clearly misunderstood tithing payment, turning his faith-based donations into a political problem. It's too bad.
With the release of Mitt Romney's tax records on Tuesday, the world now knows what was previously known only by a select few: Mitt and Ann Romney pay 10 percent of their income in tithing to their...
Elizabeth Smart is engaged; summer wedding is planned
Mormon Life says: Congratulations to Elizabeth!
Elizabeth Smart is engaged to marry, a family spokesman confirmed Friday. A summer wedding is planned, said Chris Thomas of the Salt Lake public relations firm Intrepid Group. Thomas would not...
Romney, a Mormon, gets support from ex-ambassadors to the Vatican
Mormon Life says: Even though Santorum and Gingrich are both Catholic, Romney is the one getting the endorsement.
Bypassing two GOP presidential candidates known for their Catholic faith, five former U.S. Ambassadors to the Holy See threw their support behind frontrunner Mitt Romney, a devout Mormon. In a...
LDS Church plans to turn house into seminary building for new high school
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wants to turn a house into a seminary building near the new high school in Draper. But before that can happen, the neighbors will get to vote on the covenants, conditions and restrictions of the neighborhood. This new Corner Canyon High School is...
Baptist reverend: Mitt's Mormonism a bigger issue than Newt's infidelity
Rev. Brad Atkins, the president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, which includes nearly 2,000 churches and 1 million members, told South Carolina's Patch newspaper on Monday that both Romney and Gingrich could struggle in the Palmetto State because of these issues.
Stories about faith and family help Romney open up
Mitt Romney is starting to open up. For the past year, the former Massachusetts governor has emphasized his business background as he's argued that he should be president because he understands the economy and can fix it to help millions of out-of-work Americans. Yet Romney, a multimillionaire...
Mitt Romney's speech about Boston temple
(Editor's note: on Oct. 8, 1996, Mitt Romney spoke to the zoning board of Belmont, Mass., in favor of allowing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to proceed with plans for building a temple in the Boston suburb of Belmont that would include a 139-foot-tall steeple. Below are Romney's...
TIME asks why voters don't like Mitt
Mormon Life says: His religion isn't the problem; it's that no one knows what he stands for.
Next to a grimacing close-up of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's face, the latest cover of Time magazine asks, "Why Don't They Like Me?" The five-page article by Joe Klein in the news...
David Archuleta: the Eagle, the temple and the music
Mormon Life says: Good things are happening for David: receiving his Eagle Scout, going through the temple, he's on the cover of LDS Living (okay, that last one is a little biased).
It’s been a year since David Archuleta was the featured artist of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert. Sporting a sweater and scarf, the 20-year-old "American Idol" star was in town...
'My heart is broken' for victims of Penn State child sex abuse scandal, Elizabeth Smart says
Kidnapping victim turned child advocate Elizabeth Smart said her heart was broken when she learned of the victims of the Penn State child abuse scandal. "It makes me feel terrible any time I hear about a child being abused," Smart said at a press conference at the Utah State Capitol Monday...
Elizabeth Smart to speak at conference on child abuse and family violence
Two decades ago, children who became crime victims didn’t have an inviting place to talk about what they’d endured. They were brought to a police station, sat down in an interrogation room and often felt frightened in an unfamiliar place, said Trina Taylor, associate director of Prevent Child...
MSNBC: Mitt Romney's French missionary education
Mormon Life says: A feature on Mitt's mission to France and how it shaped him into the man/candidate he is today.
To understand why Mitt Romney persists in the face of rejection, opposition and indifference from his own party, look no further than the two and a half years he spent in France, getting up at 6:30...
Baptist leader: Liberals will ‘mock’ Mitt’s Mormonism
An influential evangelical leader says Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith will be an issue if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee, but maintains that the attacks will come from secular liberals, not conservatives. "The secular liberals are going to mock Mormonism," Richard Land, president of...
Jon Huntsman Sr. says voters just need to get to know his son
The biggest problem with Jon Huntsman Jr.'s presidential bid is that the public hasn't gotten to know yet just how perfect he'd be for the job. At least according to his proud father. "I think when they get to know Jon Jr., they'll recognize what a tremendously talented and capable...
