© supplied by using Salt Lake Tribune In a video message Jan. 7, 2021, then-President Donald Trump conceded to President-choose Joe Biden. but Trump still continues that election fraud charge him reelection. The Mormon Land publication is a weekly spotlight reel of trends in and about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, even if heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the returned benches. desire this free e-newsletter to your inbox? Subscribe right here.
where Latter-day Saints stand on the 'huge lie'
Mormonism was born from a young boy's quest for non secular actuality, so it will probably appear strange that lots of its followers are embracing a political lie.
however, according to contemporary records from PRRI (Public religion analysis Institute) U.S. Latter-day Saints:
• Are extra inclined than different non secular followers — keep for white evangelical Protestants — to consider the false narrative that the 2020 presidential election turned into stolen from Donald Trump. sure, forty six% of Latter-day Saints consider the "large lie," at the back of best white evangelical Protestants (sixty one%) and ahead of white mainline Protestants (37%) and white Catholics (35%).
• Are the least likely to have faith mainstream television information shops comparable to CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, native stations and public tv, religion news carrier experiences. Barely 1 / 4 (28%) of Latter-day Saints say they have faith these information sources. That's decrease than the 30% of white evangelicals who consider the identical way. however 14% of Latter-day Saints say they do view Fox information as a go-to outlet for correct guidance.
• can also no longer watch loads of tv news anyway. Some 44% of Latter-day Saints stated they don't tune in in any respect, compared with 37% of white evangelicals who bypass these shows. as a minimum half of Latter-day Saints, besides the fact that children, do say they watch Fox information, experiences Ryan Burge of japanese Illinois university.
Like father, like son
© supplied by way of Salt Lake Tribune (Tribune file photograph) George Romney and his son Mitt Romney in 1958. As one of the most cruelest critics of former President Donald Trump in a deeply divided Republican party, Sen. Mitt Romney is following in the footsteps of someone very customary to him: his dad.
As Michigan's governor and a leading GOP moderate, George Romney spoke out for civil rights and towards the Vietnam struggle and right-wing extremism, Matthew Rozsa writes in Salon, defying many in his political birthday celebration all over the Nineteen Sixties and '70s at a time when it wasn't all the time everyday or easy to accomplish that.
His son, the simplest Latter-day Saint ever to win a major birthday celebration's presidential nomination, is treading on identical turf nowadays, vote casting twice to convict Trump in Senate trials, refusing to embrace the "big lie" in regards to the 2020 election, even marching with Black Lives count number protesters.
"I noticed in my father someone without guile," the Utah Republican informed Salon. "He acted from precept, now not politics. He turned into a person pushed by way of what he concept became correct and did not be anxious concerning the consequences. His commitment to civil rights put him forward of his time. right through my very own and political life, I even have tried to reside by using the instance he set."
This week's podcast: That 'Mormon' nickname
As we method the third anniversary of President Russell M. Nelson's plea for contributors, media, academics and all others to birth the usage of the church's full name and prevent the usage of the time period "Mormon," an outside religious pupil is suggesting a, shall we say, distinctive approach. definitely, an opposite method.
Peter Thuesen, in a fresh weblog publish, says the church should instead lean into the Mormon moniker. Use it. Admire it. embody it.
a religious studies professor at Indiana institution-Purdue college Indianapolis, Thuesen explains his reasoning and why the church may still rethink its common nickname.
listen right here.
A 'herbal' missionary
© offered through Salt Lake Tribune (picture courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf and his wife, Harriet, greet missionaries from a recording studio on Temple square during a devotional in February 2021. Elder Uchtdorf may be part of a global missionary working towards on June 26. gone are the days of missionary-minded contributors asking their pals, pals and strangers, "How a great deal do you know about the Mormons? Would you want to comprehend more?"
as an alternative, church leaders want Latter-day Saints to spread their religion in ways which are extra conducive and less contrived by means of focusing on the ideas of affection, share and invite.
To that conclusion, senior leaders will air a global broadcast June 26 for lay leaders and full-time missionaries about sharing the gospel "in approaches that are natural, honest and blissful," in keeping with a letter despatched final week by means of the Missionary department.
The practicing will be led via apostles M. Russell Ballard, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, David A. Bednar and Quentin L. cook, together with young girls ordinary President Bonnie H. Cordon.
"seek alternatives to deliver up your religion in natural and general techniques with individuals — both in person as well as on-line," Uchtdorf suggested Latter-day Saints in April 2019. "In whatever thing approaches seem natural and standard to you, share with people why Jesus Christ and his church are critical to you. Invite them to 'come and notice.'"
greater missionary suggestions
Holly Miller has some tips of her own for missionaries:
For starters, the with the aid of common Consent blogger writes, drop the churchy courtesy titles when instructing chums of contributors.
No Sister Jones. No President Brown.
"I select you to name me 'Holly,' above all for those who're instructing my chums," Miller writes. "That's what my pals name me, and so are you able to."
in addition, don't put contacts immediate by using asking them who should present the prayer.
"lots of my chums have in no way considered any one pray in a house surroundings," she says. "...[They] don't know how praying in this sort of surroundings may be achieved, or who may still do it, or how lengthy it's going to final, or anything else."
Her suggestion: One missionary explains in a sentence or two what prayer is; the other offers a quick prayer.
And utter "in the identify of Jesus Christ, amen" like the distinct and separate words they're, Miller provides, not like seven words — "inthenameofJesusChristamen"— rolled into one.
MTCs are coming lower back
© supplied by means of Salt Lake Tribune (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Provo's Missionary training center will welcome returned missionaries next month. a whole lot of eager proselytizers-in-waiting will begin returning to the Provo Missionary practising middle and two different MTCs next month.
The flagship MTC near Brigham young school will settle for about one hundred fifty to 250 utterly vaccinated missionaries per week from the U.S., in keeping with a information unlock, whereas the Ghana and New Zealand facilities will settle for about 50 native missionaries each and every.
The church's 10 MTCs around the world shut down in-grownup courses last spring as a result of COVID-19. The prospective proselytizers shifted to online, at-home learning.
the entire MTCs were offering this digital practising right through the pandemic, the liberate notes. The closing seven centers — in Brazil, Colombia, England, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines and South Africa — will resume their on-web page working towards as circumstances enable.
talk of the 2nd Coming
© offered via Salt Lake Tribune (picture courtesy The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Harry Anderson painted "The 2d Coming." The church's 2020 bicentennial proclamation on the restoration is evidence that "millenarian concept" is alive and smartly within Mormonism.
So says Christopher Blythe, writer of "horrific Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse," in a contemporary interview with Kurt Manwaring.
Blythe elements out that the "proclamation concludes through reaffirming that the restoration's intention is 'to put together the world for the promised 2nd Coming of our Lord and Savior.'"
at the equal time, the scholar notes, "in case you were to evaluate this proclamation with a a great deal older proclamation, the 1845 Proclamation of the Twelve, you could see how, we as a people, have come to deemphasize the apocalyptic."
to hear more from Blythe concerning the "White Horse Prophecy," Latter-day Saint politicians, and church President Russell M. Nelson, who commonly refers to the 2d Coming, take heed to the scholar's July 2020 appearance on The Salt Lake Tribune's "Mormon Land" podcast.
Forming bonds with Sudan
© offered through Salt Lake Tribune (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Russell M. Nelson shakes palms with Naserldeen Mofarih, Sudan's minister of endowment and religious affairs, Wednesday, may also 19, 2021. A executive delegation from Sudan — a rustic in transition politically, economically and religiously — visited church headquarters remaining week in Salt Lake city.
The visitors toured Temple square, Welfare square, the Humanitarian core and the Bishops' crucial Storehouse, in response to a news unlock. They met with the governing First Presidency, apostle David Bednar and contributors of the ordinary relief Society presidency.
They additionally visited the Khadeeja Islamic center, a mosque in neighboring West Valley city.
"Sudan is a extremely distinct nation when it comes to faith and in terms of philosophies," Naserldeen Mofarih, Sudan's minister of endowment and spiritual affairs, said within the free up. "Upon arrival of this new executive, the constitutional document has claimed that spiritual freedom is a principle, and that the government shall treat all religions the same manner…. There are shared values between Sudan and the church — the precept of freedom, the concepts of equality, and the principles of assisting others inspite of their faith."
along that line, the predominantly Muslim nation now acknowledges Christmas and Easter — Christianity's most sacred seasons — as respectable vacation trips.
"As a Christian in Sudan, i'm very happy nowadays to go into the brand new govt," delegation member Putrus Komi, Sudan's adviser for Christian affairs, referred to. "The progressive executive worked complicated toward spiritual freedoms."
© provided by using Salt Lake Tribune (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) government leaders from Sudan talk over with with Imam Yasir Butt at a mosque in West Valley metropolis right through their visit to Utah on Tuesday, may 18, 2021. The African representatives' tour comes on the heels of the discuss with via Bednar and his spouse, Susan, to Sudan in February 2020.
"What we're doing presently is organising friendships and deepening these friendships," the apostle pointed out, "and making an attempt to discover the superior techniques we will also be of guidance to the growth and the strengthening of Sudan."
After Bednar's historic seek advice from because the first apostle to adventure to the African country, Latter-day Saint Charities, the church's humanitarian arm, partnered on a few tasks in Sudan.
"We're doing flood relief; we're doing refugee response. … They're researching about us; we're gaining knowledge of about Sudan, and we're building our have confidence via these projects, and that in fact lays the foundation for future cooperation," mentioned Sharon Eubank, president of Latter-day Saint Charities and first counselor in the reduction Society widespread presidency.
"We've recognized a couple of fundamental wants, just pure water, medical information, very fundamental issues," Bednar introduced. "And there's a virtually limitless want in Sudan, so that you can be able to assist in any method is a very good blessing for us and for them."
RIP, Sister Dottie
© offered by using Salt Lake Tribune (Tribune file photos) Charles Lynn Frost, viewed at left in 2018, played Sister Dottie S. Dixon as a recurring persona for the Salt Lake acting business. Frost died might also 19. Utah's theater neighborhood is mourning the demise of Charles Lynn Frost, an activist, actor and playwright who gave existence to a cherished persona: Sister Dottie Dixon.
Frost's introduction, writes The Tribune's Sean P. capacity, "become a loyal, casserole-making member of the Spanish Fork (she reported it 'fark') Ward ... but from time to time found the church's shunning of the LGBTQ neighborhood contrary to Jesus' message to love thy neighbor."
Frost showcased his mouthy Mormon mom on radio, the stage, the printed web page and a lot of a satisfaction parade, sharing laughs and shedding light alongside the way.
"art is among the strongest tools we now have," the actor referred to in 2009, "and comedy and parody is among the most powerful elements of theater."
Frost died might also 19 after fighting colon melanoma. He was 67.
Temple updates
© MATTHEW T REIER (photograph courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A sealing room within the Rome Italy Temple. • The church announced it is ending a tradition that dates lower back to its 19th-century origins — particularly, "time-best marriages" in temples.
"as a result of the everlasting nature of the temple and the work that takes area there, it has been determined that point-only marriages in the temple will now not be carried out," the primary Presidency wrote. "within the case where a couple wants to be married civilly and the place a sealing isn't contemplated or possible, the couple is encouraged to ask their bishop or stake president — where it is prison — to officiate on the bridal ceremony."
Matthew Bowman, author of "The Mormon americans: The Making of an American faith," said this movement is "part and parcel of the recent removal of the one-year ready length for American Saints who're married civilly and who wish to be sealed [without a long delay]."
• In June and July, 60 temples — together with all 15 operating temples in Utah — are scheduled to shift to section three of the church's reopening plan via providing confined vicarious ordinances for the useless, along with all living ordinances, to members who make online reservations, in keeping with a news liberate this week.
Quote of the week
"There are a number of definitions of 'genuine' that we bring to the scriptures. One version of 'authentic' potential 'traditionally accurate.' yet another skill some thing like 'morally valuable.' These are absolutely distinctive ideas that may additionally or may additionally not be present in the same text. … If we discover an ethical truth ('God doesn't want us to commit genocide') that conflicts with a historical truth ('God commanded the Israelites to commit genocide'), we work very tough to revise the ethical reality to assist the historic reality claim. We instantly subordinate morality to history. And right here's the thing: basically every thing critical concerning the scriptures makes more feel if we do it the wrong way round."
— Michael Austin in a by means of usual Consent blog
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