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Mormons have mixed views of Beck's rise
Like conservative commentator Glenn Beck, Stephen Owens is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His in-laws traveled from Utah to Washington last weekend to join Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Owens, however, said he has always "kind of rolled my eyes" at Beck's...
'Book of Mormon' musical is "sure to offend and succeed"
Mormon Life says: This is the Broadway musical being created by the guys that do 'South Park'.
Hilarious, audacious -- and guaranteed to offend just about everybody. That's how theater insiders are describing "The Book of Mormon," the much-anticipated new Broadway musical from "South Park"...
Elder Cook responds to bishop slaying
Mormon Life says: Love how he says "all that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement."
Our hearts go out to Bishop Sannar's family and we mourn with and pray for them, together with their friends and ward members. It is a tragic event. We are confident that the extended family,...
What Motivated BYU to Go Independent? The BCS or the LDS Church?
Why should Brigham Young University go independent in football? BYU football with Bronco Mendenhall at the helm has rekindled the fire left smoldering with the retirement of LaVell Edwards. Mendenhall in his first five years has won 19 more games than Edwards had in his first five years at BYU,...
Wash Post: Obama, Beck: Who is Christian? Who decides?
Is President Obama a Christian? Is Glenn Beck? That's the question that has been swirling in the media this week. The answer may lie in how "Christian" is defined and whether the Mormon church, to which Beck belongs, considers Protestants to be Christians. The Church of Latter Day Saints...
Separating facts from fiction about Joseph Smith's death
The size of the bullet hole in John Taylor's pocket watch that was with him in Carthage Jail was the last detail Joseph Lynn Lyon needed in his research about the 1816 muskets that were likely used by the mob. The pocket watch had been damaged during the shootings that resulted in the deaths of...
Mountain Meadows affidavit Hofmann forgery?
Mormon bomber Mark Hofmann’s calling card has popped up again, signaling that the forger’s handiwork may be more widespread than previously believed. But this time, instead of bogus documents surrounding the origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, an embarrassing affidavit on...
ESPN sings BYU's praises
There were two big elephants in the room at BYU's official independence party in LaVell Edwards Stadium on Tuesday. Without either one, the Cougars' bold move to explore going it alone in football would have been in vain. Who were the two whose weight dented the floor? LaVell Edwards and ESPN. ...
Jewish, Mormon leaders issue joint statement on proxy baptism
Jewish and Mormon leaders issued a joint statement today acknowledging that concerns between members of both groups over a sensitive doctrinal issue have been eliminated. According to the statement, which was issued to news media simultaneously in New York and Salt Lake City, The American...
911 tape released in Calif. LDS Church shooting
Police in California have released the 911 call made by the man who they say gunned down an LDS bishop on Sunday. The call came minutes after Kenneth Ward killed Bishop Clay Sannar at a meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Visalia then fled to a different...
A Catholic's take on Glenn Beck
"Does God speak through Glenn Beck?" While secularists at MSNBC smirk and some on the "permanent left" deride this question, believers understand that God chooses special messengers. Catholic theology says you don't have to be a saint for God to speak through you. So does God speak through the Fox...
New York Times: Mormon Media Empire Goes More Digital
The Deseret News has been around since the days when Brigham Young led the Mormons to Salt Lake City, and the fastest way to spread news was on a machine called the telegraph. Now Utah’s oldest continuously published daily is trying to embrace a 21st-century media model. Emphasizing just how...
ESPN: BYU to go independant in football and join WCC in other sports
Mormon Life says: Looks like it is decided. All that needs to happen is the formal press conference tomorrow.
Brigham Young University will leave the Mountain West Conference for the 2011-12 season, go independent in football and join the West Coast Conference in all other sports, notably men's...
