Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

there have been constant questions about the real pervasiveness and peril of polygamy here in Utah. Mainstream Mormons in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with 12 million members ...

Mormon pioneers brought polygamy to Utah in the 1840s, but 50 years later the church renounced the practice to win statehood for the territory. Utah's Constitution specifically outlaws plural ...

Utah had no fault divorce from the beginning ... GROSS: So how did polygamy officially end in the Mormon faith? ULRICH: Polygamy officially ended in 1890, after the Supreme Court had ruled ...

One of the more unique stories we have come across is the 1851 “honeymoon” of Broughton and Sarah Harris. Broughton was a ...

Mormon president Wilford Woodruff announced in a document known as "The Manifesto" that the church would renounce the practice of polygamy. Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4 ...

Mormon pioneers brought polygamy to Utah in the 1840s, but 50 years later the church renounced the practice to win statehood for the territory. Utah's Constitution specifically outlaws plural ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.--The following communication from the Utah Commission has been received at the Interior Department: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Some Utah Mormons who still wanted to engage in polygamy escaped to the remote border town of Short Creek to evade law enforcement. There, they have created a community of an estimated 7,700 ...

Instead, suffrage fit the “progressive sentiment among the Mormons at the time," according ... Association distanced themselves from polygamy. Utah women weren’t marching or drafting petitions ...

In the polygamist communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado ... of newcomers to St. George, Mormon or not, have also diluted the community's opposition to polygamy in ways that could potentially ...