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American religious leader (1801–1877)
Recent reporting and research show two overlapping themes about sexual experimentation among married couples: many Americans now enter marriage with a history of sexual experimentation, and contempora...
The supplied materials converge on a clear claim: historical Mormon teachings and practices included affecting Black people, especially regarding the priesthood ban and segregationist rhetoric. The do...
The Mormon Church enacted and enforced a formal policy that , a change announced by President Spencer W. Kimball and published as Official Declaration 2 . The ban’s origins, later disavowals of racist...
Allegations of serious wrongdoing linked to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often called the Mormon Church) range from historical episodes of communal violence in the 19th century to ...
The core finding is that Latter-day Saints (LDS) support a doctrine of a — three separate personages, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost — using a mix of Bible verses, nineteenth‑century propheti...
Brigham Young and other early LDS leaders offered a mix of scriptural, social, and administrative explanations for barring men of African descent from priesthood and temple ordinances; these rationale...
The most consequential differences between Latter‑day Saint (LDS) and traditional Christian doctrines center on the , the , and the : historic Christianity teaches one eternal, triune God and salvatio...
Research yields no single, decisive answer: several large-sample and longitudinal analyses find a modest association between fewer prior sexual partners and higher reported marital quality or lower di...
The early Mormon church’s history in Utah included that shaped territorial laws and ecclesiastical practice; recent primary-source work shows leaders like Brigham Young and Orson Pratt publicly clashe...