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(Alessandra Tarantino | AP) Pope Leo XIV, shown in May, has come under fire from President Donald Trump on a number of issues.

Commentary: Is Pope Leo a Democratic Socialist?

By Thomas Reese | Religion News Service | July 31, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Dylan Eubank | The Salt Lake Tribune and Josh Smith) The lighthouse sculpture at the Icelandic memorial in Spanish Fork, left, and the Mormon Pond monument, right, honor 410 Islander Latter-day Saints who immigrated to Utah in the 19th century.

Two unlikely monuments 4,000 miles apart honor the same 410 Mormon pioneers

By Dylan Eubank | July 31, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

Legendary LDS writer and advocate Carol Lynn Pearson dies, leaves a final poem to her fans

Federal appeals court sides with LDS Church in lawsuit over sex abuse settlements

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(Universal Studios) A scene from Steven Spielberg's 1993 R-rated epic, "Schindler's List," shows Jews evacuating their homes.

Latest from Mormon Land: Are R-rated movies still a no-no? And Oaks makes a surprise appearance.

Also: Church steps up aid in Venezuela and Africa; new hymns are released; ghost stories at a pioneer way station.

By David Noyce | July 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Primary children participate in service projects. Author Natalie Brown sees ways Latter-day Saints can strengthen their community through grassroots innovation and build happier lives for members.

‘Mormon Land’: Finance childcare? Put all kids in one ward? Return to 3-hour church? Let locals decide.

Natalie Brown, author of “After Happiness: Living with Faith in a Time of Crisis,” discusses how to help Latter-day Saints amid today’s challenging economic and polarizing climate.

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | July 29, 2026, 1:33 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) Marion D. Hanks, who died in 2011, was seen as a champion of Latter-day Saints on the church's margins.

The progressive LDS leader who spent decades ‘defending something he didn’t believe in’

He pushed church leaders to drop the priesthood/temple ban, worked to elevate women’s voices and lamented unnecessary Latter-day Saint cultural traditions.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | July 27, 2026, 11:56 a.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A plane takes off at Salt Lake City International Airport. Guest columnist Eli McCann recounts a not-so-pleasant landing during a recent flight when his toddler suddenly got sick.

Eli McCann: How our pleasant flight suddenly descended into an adventure aboard a vomit comet

“Our toddler looked us both in the eyes before proceeding to vomit everything we have ever fed him in his entire 21 months of mortal existence.”

By Eli McCann | Special to The Tribune | July 26, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Art Museum, formerly B’nai Israel Temple, on Monday, July 20, 2026.

It predates the LDS Church’s Salt Lake Temple and was Utah’s center of a religious movement. Now it has a new life.

The Salt Lake Tribune wrote in 1890 that the temple would be “an ornament to the city.”

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | July 27, 2026, 1:32 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) A Christus statue is on display at the new Salt Lake Temple Visitors' Center.

Jana Riess: More about Jesus, less about coffee — seven LDS Church trends

Are temples and adoring the prophet replacing the family and the Word of Wisdom as the most salient LDS identity markers?

By Jana Riess | Religion News Service | July 24, 2026, 1:55 p.m.

(AP Photo | Jessie Wardarski) Roughly a dozen people attend Pastor Ryan Burge's Sunday service at First Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, Illinois, in 2023.

Commentary: Half of Gen Z says Trump support keeps them out of church

A new study found that, even among Gen Z Christians, the strong alliance between Trump and Christianity has had a negative impact on churchgoing for many.

By Ryan Burge and Rick Richardson | Religion News Service | July 24, 2026, 1:38 p.m.

(Rahav Segev | The New York Times) Sleeveless designs are on the rise.

Latest from Mormon Land: Those sleeveless garments came out just in time

Also: Yes, Latter-day Saints can be Democrats; diaries document Joseph Smith’s secret Nauvoo polygamy; gay LDS designer makes waves.

By David Noyce | July 23, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Church History Library) William Clayton was a confidant, clerk and scribe to church founder Joseph Smith.

‘Mormon Land’: His scribe’s diaries provide further evidence of Joseph Smith’s secret polygamy

LDS Church historians say William Clayton’s soon-to-be-published journals add valuable details to the faith’s Nauvoo narrative.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | July 22, 2026, 2:02 p.m.

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