A decade after the Ordain Women movement within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made national news, another feminist issue is getting lots of media attention. During a March 17 meeting ...

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In this month's LDS youth magazine, one article tries to include young women in the exercise of priesthood, while the very next article excludes them. Guest blogger EmJen says we need better ways to ...

Hundreds of Mormon women who want ecclesiastical equality were denied admittance to a male-only session of their faith's spring conference on Saturday, Reuters reported. For the second year in a row ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Thirty years have passed, but Heber G. Wolsey still cries when he recalls the day the Mormon church abandoned a policy that had kept black men out of the priesthood. "It was one of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Thirty years have passed, but Heber G. Wolsey still cries when he recalls the day the Mormon church abandoned a policy that had kept black men out of the priesthood. "It was one of ...

For more than 30 years (based on a revelation to then-Mormon leader Spencer Kimball) blacks have been admitted to the Mormon priesthood (a lay order open to young men and adults). At least one verse, ...

Here's a look at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often referred to as the Mormon Church. Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805-June 27, 1844) founded the Church of Jesus Christ of ...

Thirty-five years after lifting a ban on blacks entering the priesthood, the Mormon church has offered an explanation for a practice that was in place for more than 100 years, saying it was rooted in ...

In an online report, the Mormon Church opened the books on its history of exclusion, continuing to disavow previous teachings that banned black priests. The 2,000-word statement published on the ...

For decades, the public face of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, included the perkiness of the Osmond family and missionaries on bicycles, portraying ...