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(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Debra Bonner Unity Gospel Choir rehearses in the Tabernacle for a celebration of the 50th aniversary of the Genesis Group, in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021.

After 50 years, Genesis still offers the ‘entire Black church experience’ for Latter-day Saints

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | October 24, 2021, 2:38 p.m.

(Chris Samuels | The Salt Lake Tribune) Centenary United Methodist Church in Salt Lake City is celebrating its 100th anniversary being in its current chapel at 1740 S. 500 East. The church was photographed Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.

Utah’s little ‘church that refused to die’ celebrates 100 years of faith and fellowship

By Kaitlyn Bancroft | October 24, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

Devotional honors the early Black pioneers of Genesis Group as it celebrates its 50th anniversary

Latter-day Saints announce the location for a new temple in Ephraim

(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

Latest from Mormon Land: Coffee-flavored jelly beans a sin? How some members go too far.

By David Noyce | October 21, 2021, 2:00 p.m.

(Courtesy of Darius Gray) Darius Gray, a counselor in the presidency of the Genesis Group for Black Mormons, speaks in the 1970s.

‘Mormon Land’: Looking back and forward as one-of-a-kind Genesis Group for Black members celebrates its golden anniversary

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | David Noyce | October 21, 2021, 7:41 p.m.

(Chris Pizzello, AP Photo) It appears that masks, like this one of Darth Vader, may now be worn at Halloween events at Latter-day Saint churches.

Jana Riess: Latter-day Saint kids can’t wear Halloween masks to the trunk-or-treat event — or can they?

By Jana Riess | Religion News Service | October 19, 2021, 10:30 p.m.

(AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file) In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2020, photo, people walk behind the writing "Holocaust" during the international Holocaust remembrance day in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany.

Commentary: There are no opposing views of the Holocaust

By Jeffrey Salkin | Religion News Service | October 18, 2021, 10:54 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles speaks during the morning session of the 189th twice-annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019.

Latter-day Saint apostle’s multimillion-dollar stock win from his long corporate career fits with church history

By Tony Semerad | October 17, 2021, 2:07 p.m.

(Rebecca Reed) Historian Richard Bushman blows out the candles on his 90th birthday cake during a celebration at a Salt Lake City hotel Sept. 25, 2021.

Why, at age 90, historian Richard Bushman frames art as ‘essential’ to the Latter-day Saint story

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | October 16, 2021, 2:19 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Church leaders at General Conference on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.

Latest from Mormon Land: See which apostle mentions church President Russell Nelson the most at conference

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | October 14, 2021, 3:25 p.m.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The church's symbol.

Jana Riess: The battle lines around the word ‘Mormon’

By Jana Riess | Religion News Service | October 14, 2021, 6:48 a.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is undergoing major renovations, Aug. 4, 2021. A recent Washington Post article focused on the rise of progressive Latter-day Saints and that tug of war over the future of the faith.

‘Mormon Land’: Liberals vs. conservatives — the tug of war within the church

By David Noyce | Peggy Fletcher Stack | October 13, 2021, 2:30 p.m.

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