In excerpts from this week's "Mormon Land" podcast, April Young-Bennett reflects on the role of women's leaders, where they sit in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' governing ...

The 41-year-old Minnetonka health care consultant's criticisms of his former church and its hierarchy have exacerbated a particularly messy divorce with his devout Mormon ex-wife, filling hundreds ...

The church has a strong preference for centralization and hierarchy; in the U.S., the Utah corporation owns basically all of its property (unlike other denominations, which often incorporate ...

More recently, in 2014, the church excommunicated Kate Kelly, the Mormon feminist who founded Ordain Women, an organization calling for women to gain the priesthood.

Currently, only men in the Mormon Church get to ascend the religious hierarchy. Kate Kelly founded the group Ordain Women roughly a decade ago to try to change that.

In 2016, Trump only took 45% of the vote in Utah, a predominantly Mormon state, largely because third-party candidate Evan McMullin, a member of the church, ate into his support.

Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

New Jersey is getting its first Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple, Mormon officials announced this week. The temple will be built in Summit in Union County, according to Russell M ...