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(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

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?

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

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf, followed by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, greets members of a youth choir that performed at a media event Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026, about the Salt Lake Temple reopening.

Latest from Mormon Land: ‘Are you President Uchtdorf’s bodyguard?’

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | September 3, 2026, 1:24 p.m.

(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington)

‘Mormon Land’: Sex and older singles — Should the law of chastity still apply?

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | September 3, 2026, 1:31 p.m.

(Bethany Baker | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dieter F. Uchtdorf, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaks during an event to release the theme "Rejoice in Christ" for the upcoming reopening of the Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026.

LDS Church rejoices with a global gift, will finally let visitors ‘go inside’ its most famous temple

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | September 2, 2026, 1:15 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The Ephraim Temple, near Snow College, towers over the town.

Unlikely ‘workhorse’ LDS temple opens seven miles away from a ‘show horse’ temple

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | September 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The global faith is changing its Sunday worship schedule in September.

‘Mormon Land’: Shorter lessons. Less foyer time. Will new Sunday schedule lead to a ‘drive-thru’ church?

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | August 26, 2026, 2:03 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A choir from Brigham Young University sings at a General Conference in 2025. Religion News Service columnist Jana Riess notes that Latter-day Saint women are now more likely to leave the church than men.

‘Mormon Land’: The LDS Church’s retention rate hasn’t ‘bottomed out’ yet, says researcher

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | August 19, 2026, 1:50 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Temple. Faithful Latter-day Saints enter these sacred edifices by obtaining a temple recommend from their local lay leaders.

We asked what question should be added to LDS temple recommend interviews. Here’s what you said.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | August 15, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Dallin H. Oaks delivers a keynote address at the Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit in Rome in 2022. He will discuss religious freedom and the Constitution next month in Washington.

Latest from Mormon Land: President Dallin Oaks to give major speech on a favorite topic

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | August 13, 2026, 4:00 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Dallin H. Oaks and his wife, Kristen, at the Burley Idaho Temple in January. Oaks will dedicate a temple in Brazil this weekend.

As he turns 94, Dallin Oaks is set to take his first trip abroad as LDS Church president

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | August 11, 2026, 9:18 p.m.

(Purdie Distribution) Jeff McLean, front, plays the innkeeper, describing the night he turned away Mary and Joseph, in the movie version of Michael McLean's "The Forgotten Carols." Michael is at the keyboard.

‘I went from Mormon land into gay land’ — Son of famed LDS composer’s journey of reconciliation

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | Dylan Eubank | August 8, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Courtesy images) “Stay in the Room" with Michael McLean, left, and Jeff McLean.

‘Mormon Land’: ‘Mom cried, and Dad went silent,’ says gay son of famed LDS composer

By Dylan Eubank | Peggy Fletcher Stack | August 5, 2026, 9:36 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) A children's choir sings during a special conference in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2025. A survey shows Africans score higher than other Latter-day Saints in their devotion to church attendance, personal prayer and scripture reading.

Which Latter-day Saints across the globe are the most devout? Survey offers clues.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | August 2, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

(Salt Lake Tribune archives) Author Carol Lynn Pearson, shown in 2002, has died at age 86.

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

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | July 31, 2026, 4:11 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.

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’

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.