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(Cherish Families) A Cherish Families office in southern Utah helps individuals and families — primarily from polygamous backgrounds — with food assistance, housing and legal advocacy.

She fled polygamy and built a new life. Now her nonprofit helps others do the same.

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

(Larkin Mortuary) Stanley Benfell was a literature professor who also helped to administer study-abroad programs. He was killed while riding his bike.

BYU associate V.P. and head of a respected international center killed while riding bike

By Tamarra Kemsley | September 11, 2026, 11:47 p.m.

UVU gets an ‘F’ in free speech rankings in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk shooting

A year after Charlie Kirk’s death, can faith hold Turning Point together?

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(Photo illustration by Amy Lewis | The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saints believe in a Heavenly Mother.

Latest from Mormon Land: Is Heavenly Mother key to getting more converts?

Also: Church tells members to conserve water, gives more money to a U.N. agency, marks 125 years in Japan.

By David Noyce | September 10, 2026, 2:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) With the new change, BYU students can count only up to six religion credits a year toward graduation.

LDS Church’s BYU has new requirements for religion classes. Here’s how they will affect students.

“I was hoping when I came to BYU,” says a student, “that I would get more of an in-depth religious education.”

By Dylan Eubank | September 10, 2026, 3:47 p.m.

(Scott Howell) Linda and Scott Howell were inner-city service missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than a decade.

‘Mormon Land’: LDS service missionaries told they can help immigrants but not with their legal status

Couple talk about the challenges they faced — everything from immigration, mental health and homelessness to helping a toothless member get dentures.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | September 9, 2026, 9:05 p.m.

(AP) U.S. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., left, and former Mesa, Arizona, Mayor John Giles. Both Latter-day Saints, Biggs is the Republican nominee for Arizona governor, while Giles is the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor.

With two LDS candidates on the ticket, this governor’s race spurs a question: Which way will members lean?

Both Andy Biggs and John Giles say faith guides their politics, but the debate continues over how the church’s teachings align with the issues.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | September 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune) A mural of the Virgin Mary in downtown Salt Lake City. Teachings about Mary are attracting women to the Catholic Church.

Commentary: Why so many women are converting to Catholicism

For many women converting to Catholicism, the Mary factor looms large.

By Ericka Andersen | Religion News Service | September 5, 2026, 12:56 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) An artist's rendering of the Heber Valley Temple on display at a groundbreaking in 2022.

Utah Supreme Court wades into LDS temple zoning battle

The residents have sued over Wasatch County’s decision to allow the Latter-day Saint Church’s temple to go forward.

By Ben Winslow | Fox 13 News | September 5, 2026, 12:52 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Ruth Renlund and her husband, apostle Dale Renlund, shown in 2021.

LDS apostle offers his definition of ‘real men’

How a Sunday school lesson gone awry and bouquet of paper airplanes became symbols of healthy masculinity.

By Tamarra Kemsley | September 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Memorials to Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem sooner after his slaying.

Commentary: A sainted Charlie Kirk serves MAGA. It doesn’t serve the girls drawn to his myth.

A year after Kirk’s death, a former tradwife writes about how making him a hero boosts the Christian patriarchy.

By Tia Levings | Religion News Service | September 4, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake Tribune humor columnist Eli McCann signs copies of his new novel, "Stitched."

Eli McCann: A novel idea — two gay men join a gabby group of women quilters

These women are as “interesting as they are hilarious, as talented as they are sarcastic, as thoughtful as they are supremely good at gossip.”

By Eli McCann | Special to The Tribune | September 5, 2026, 1:27 p.m.

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