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To Mormons, Heavenly Mother is the ultimate, but unknown

Peggy Fletcher Stack Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 4:45pm

On Sundays, Mormon speakers may share stories of supermoms who run marathons, home-school their 10 children, help out at the homeless shelter and sing Bach cantatas -- all while leading daily prayers, scripture study and blogging about it.

Few members, however, will hear about the greatest mom of all: Heavenly Mother.

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FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2013 photo, Mormon missionaries walk through the halls at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. Fewer students are enrolled at nearly all of Utah’s universities and colleges this semester as the institutions begin feeling the impacts of the Mormon church’s recent lowering of the missionary age. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Email restrictions loosened for Mormon missionaries

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 1:33pm

SALT LAKE CITY — The Mormon church’s strict rules about email communication for missionaries have been loosened a bit to allow them to send emails to friends, priesthood leaders and new converts.

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Woman leads closing prayer for first time at LDS conference

Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 6, 2013 - 7:01pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- For the first time in the event's 183-year history, a woman led a prayer Saturday at the semiannual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Jean A. Stevens led the morning session's closing prayer for the more than 100,000 Mormons gathered in Salt Lake City for the two-day general conference, and the millions more watching via satellite, radio or Internet broadcast.

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LDS temples to be built in Cedar City, Brazil

Michelle L. Price The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 6, 2013 - 12:26pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Mormon church is planning to build two new temples in Rio de Janeiro and Cedar City, Utah.

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Downtown SLC businesses prepare for 100,000 Mormons attending LDS conference

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 5, 2013 - 5:21pm

SALT LAKE CITY — More than 100,000 Mormons are set to gather in Salt Lake City starting Saturday for a conference hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Push on for Mormon women in the priesthood

Brady McCombs The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 5:21pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A campaign is under way by Mormons who want to see women allowed into the priesthood.

A Facebook page, LDS WAVE (Women Advocating for Voice and Equality), and related website, ldswave.org, have been dedicated to the cause, and another website, OrdainWomen.org, supports the cause.

Also, a Salt Lake City-based foundation is holding panel discussions on the topic.

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LDS Church dedicates new temple in Honduras

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, March 18, 2013 - 8:55am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has dedicated its sixth temple in Central America with a new building in Honduras.

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New Mormon scriptures tweak race, polygamy references

Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune

Last updated Monday, March 4, 2013 - 3:21pm

Mormon historians are cheering the newly released English edition of LDS scriptures, pointing to new wording about race and polygamy that provides a more accurate and complex view of the church and its sometimes-controversial past.

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The No. 119 (left) and the Jupiter are ready for photos at the 142nd anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at the Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory in May 2011. The engines are replicas of the first two locomotives to meet at Promontory Summit during the original golden spike ceremony in 1869. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Lecture in Ogden today to cover Mormons and Transcontinental Railroad

Brady Bingham Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 15, 2013 - 11:11pm

OGDEN — Mark Stuart, a seminary and institute instructor for more than 37 years, will be the guest speaker today at the Ogden Family Search Library at 539 E. 24th St.

Stuart’s speech, “Mormons and the Transcontinental Railroad,” is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in Room 12.

Stuart said he developed an interest in trains and the events that they brought to the Top of Utah while listening to stories told by his grandfather. He has maintained a lifelong interest in the subject, as well as Native American cultures and the Morrisite War.

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Phony Mormon marriage counselor sentenced

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 11:40am

WEST JORDAN -- A state judge has sentenced a Kearns man accused of posing as a Mormon marriage counselor to three years in jail and five years' probation for sexual misconduct.

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Group of Mormon women ask to lead prayers at general conference

Brady McCombs The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 21, 2013 - 10:05am

SALT LAKE CITY -- A group of Mormon women is asking church leaders to let women lead the opening and closing prayer at the church's general conference as a symbol of gender equality.

The "Let Women Pray" campaign comes from a subset of the same group that drew national attention last month by urging women to wear pants to church to raise awareness about what they perceive as gender inequality within Mormon culture. Though women hold many leadership positions in the church, only men are allowed to be priests.

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In this Jan. 8, 2013, photo, 19-year-old Mormon missionary Mikaela Merrill, from Castle Rock, Colo., speaks during an interview at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. The Mormon church’s recent decision to lower the minimum age for missionaries has been greeted with enthusiasm from many young members of the LDS church -- but especially young women. About half of all new applications to go on missions since the announcement have been from women, the church says. Prior to that, only 15 percent of missionaries were women. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

More Mormon women missionaries expected since age change

Brady McCombs The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 18, 2013 - 1:15pm

PROVO -- Mikaela Merrill was in the middle of her fall semester at Brigham Young University when she abruptly altered her college plans and signed up for a Mormon mission.

Now, she's studying around the clock to learn the proper intonation of Mandarin and is just weeks away of fulfilling her dream of serving as an overseas missionary.

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2010 file photo, U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, gives his victory speech at the Republican Party election headquarters held at the Doubletree Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho. Authorities say Crapo has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012 in a Washington, D.C. suburb. (AP Photo/Matt Cilley, File)

Idaho senator had reputation as Mormon teetotaler before DUI arrest

John Miller The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 27, 2012 - 12:46pm

BOISE, Idaho — When U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo sponsored a 2010 bill to cut taxes on small beer brewers, he said he did so for pro-business, not pro-beer reasons.

A Mormon, the Idaho Republican told The Associated Press at the time that he abstains from alcohol, and he pledged to have a root beer to celebrate if the bill passed.

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In this Dec. 16, 2012 photo, Julia Shumway walks out of an LDS singles ward wearing pants in the Avenues neighborhood of Salt Lake City. Shumway was participating in the Wear Pants to Church Day, a movement that hopes to bring a dialog about women's role within the church. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Kim Raff)

Mormon pants-to-church movement has historic roots

Peggy Fletcher Stack Salt Lake Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 4:20pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Mormon feminists who planned last Sunday’s “Wear Pants to Church Day” can point to an unlikely ally: Brigham Young.

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Survey shows more Americans use positive terms to describe Mormons

Brady McCombs The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 7:00am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The perception of Mormons in the U.S. changed very little even though the religion received unprecedented attention this year with Republican Mitt Romney running for president.

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