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(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’

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

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

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

Joseph Smith, top left, and some of his reported wives, clockwise from top middle: Emma Hale Smith; Eliza R. Snow; Martha McBride (Knight Smith Kimball); Marinda Nancy Johnson (Hyde Smith); and Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs (Smith Young).

LDS Church founder Joseph Smith’s polygamy: The truth is out there — or is it?

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | July 20, 2026, 11:01 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Audience members applaud The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square during a concert in São Paulo, Brazil, in February.

‘Mormon Land’: The state of the LDS Church in the country with more members than any other outside the U.S.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | July 15, 2026, 1:30 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune; Amazon) W. Cleon Skousen and his book "The Naked Communist."

Moses was the ‘first capitalist’ and Cain the ‘first socialist.’ Thus saith this LDS influencer from the past

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | July 13, 2026, 1:46 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rabbi Samuel Spector lets Deborah Rumi hold a Torah scroll in a final step of her conversion at Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake City.

Becoming Jewish: ‘I realized what I had unknowingly felt all my life,’ says former Latter-day Saint

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | July 10, 2026, 4:18 p.m.

(Joshua Bishop) A new sculpture and painting of church founder Joseph Smith — based on an 1844 daguerreotype — by Latter-day Saint artist Joseph Brickey is unveiled at Utah Valley University on Saturday, June 27, 2026.

‘Mormon Land’: The daguerreotype debate centers on finding Brother Joseph — the man

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | July 13, 2026, 10:42 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Temple, shown June 23, has its seismic protections now in place.

Salt Lake LDS Temple reaches ‘milestone moment,’ one designed to help the iconic building last

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | July 1, 2026, 7:17 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saint writer W. Cleon Skousen in 1987 penned bestsellers in Mormon circles and for national audiences.

‘Mormon Land’: Why this LDS anti-communist zealot from yesteryear is gaining new relevance today

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | July 1, 2026, 4:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Carol Lynn Pearson speaks out for the Equal Rights Amendment at at the Utah Capitol in 2021.

‘I would rather be a poet than a prophet’ — LDS writer Carol Lynn Pearson reflects on battles and beauty in the faith

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | June 27, 2026, 3:49 p.m.

(Kian Robison) Jeff Robison and Grace Goddard arrive at the Garden Park Ward for their alternative wedding reception on June 20, 2026, after a wildfire forced the event to relocate.

A Utah wildfire disrupted their wedding. All survived, save for the cake.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | June 23, 2026, 12:42 a.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A locket containing a daguerreotype reported to be from the 1840s. More and more people now believe it to be an image of Joseph Smith.

If this photo is Joseph Smith, he looks like a man ‘you could follow into battle rather than salute in the pews’

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | June 20, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Church President Gordon B. Hinckley walks away from a Huntsman jet after arriving in Zimbabwe in 1998. At his left is apostle Jeffrey R. Holland.

Latest from Mormon Land: The gift that gave President Gordon Hinckley a few extra years

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | June 22, 2026, 11:27 p.m.

(The Salt Lake Tribune) General authority Seventy Marion D. Hanks was a commanding presence at the pulpit.

‘Mormon Land’: ‘I’m always upset with Boyd Packer’ — This leader was a believer, but he was also a battler

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | June 17, 2026, 12:58 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Primary General President Susan H. Porter teaches Primary in the island country of Mauritius in 2025. Her counselor Tracy Browning says Primary songs can help children learn to use civil language.

Latest from Mormon Land: One way to help a child avoid a potty mouth; an ‘old maid’ at 30 in LDS culture?

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | June 12, 2026, 2:07 p.m.

(Courtesy images via Religion News Service) “Torn: Why People We Love Are Leaving the Church and What We Can Learn from Them" and author Jeff Strong, top right, and researcher Jeff Dotson.

Does LDS culture tolerate members with doubts and questions?

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | June 8, 2026, 12:32 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A locket containing a daguerreotype reported to be from the 1840s. Some believe it may be an image of Joseph Smith.

Remember that purported photo of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith? See who owns it now.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | June 5, 2026, 11:08 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) From left, Jon Huntsman Jr., Karen Huntsman and Jon Huntsman Sr. embrace at a 2014 groundbreaking ceremony for a new wing of the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Karen Huntsman, matriarch of one of Utah’s most influential families, dies at 88

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | June 3, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Latter-day Saint poet Carol Lynn Pearson, shown in 2021, championed the Equal Rights Amendment and other women's issues.

‘Mormon Land’: Legendary poet Carol Lynn Pearson on how she loves ‘parts’ of the LDS Church — and ‘left’ others

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | June 3, 2026, 10:47 p.m.