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(Salt Lake Tribune file photo) Renowned historian D. Michael Quinn at the LDS Church History Library on Aug. 9, 2013. He has died at age 77.

Historian D. Michael Quinn, who was booted from the LDS Church as part of the ‘September Six’ but remained a believer, dies at 77

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | April 23, 2021, 2:25 a.m.

(Chris Caldwell | The Spectrum via AP) In this July 23, 2018, photo, community members tour the St. George Tabernacle after two years of renovations. The building will be reopening to visitors after being closed for more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

See where the LDS Church is reopening its historic sites

By Kaitlyn Bancroft | The Salt Lake Tribune | April 22, 2021, 6:13 p.m.

(Photo courtesy NBC Universal) Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in “New Amsterdam.”

Latest from Mormon Land: LDS Church’s same-sex dilemma makes prime-time TV

By David Noyce | April 22, 2021, 3:56 p.m.

‘It is done’ — Latter-day Saint sex therapist Natasha Helfer is ousted from the church

By Kathy Stephenson | April 22, 2021, 2:39 a.m.

(Rick Egan | Salt Lake Tribune file photo) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Administration Building, shown in March, in Salt Lake City. Local church officials have held a disciplinary council on sex therapist Natasha Helfer that threatens her membership.

‘Mormon Land’: Latter-day Saint therapist discusses the sexuality issues that Natasha Helfer tackled

By The Salt Lake Tribune | April 22, 2021, 1:02 a.m.

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Natasha Helfer

LDS sex therapist was asked to leave her church disciplinary hearing before it started. Here’s why.

By Kathy Stephenson | April 19, 2021, 10:59 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Angel Moroni statue is pulled from atop the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2020 as the iconic building undergoes extensive renovation. The LDS Church remains a dominant force in Utah, even as the state's faith landscape grow richer and more diverse.

The Tribune has been connected to Mormonism since its beginning. But as Utah grows more diverse, will that continue?

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | April 17, 2021, 10:28 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Utah Arts Alliance plans to acquire, preserve and renovate the historic 15th Ward Chapel, at 900 West and 100 South in Salt Lake City. It will become a community art center for the Poplar Grove neighborhood called the Art Castle.

Look inside this historic LDS church before a $4M plan turns it into Art Castle, a Salt Lake City cultural event space

By Sean P. Means | April 17, 2021, 2:54 p.m.

(Salt Lake Tribune archive) Natasha Helfer.

Latter-day Saint sex therapist plans to fight to keep her church membership

By Kathy Stephenson | April 16, 2021, 11:45 p.m.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Vicky Chavez leaves the First Unitarian Church for the first time in more than three years on April 15, 2021. In January 2018, Chavez sought sanctuary at the church, living in a converted Sunday school classroom for more than three years with her two daughters.

‘I am free today’: After three years, Vicky Chavez can safely leave her sanctuary at a Salt Lake City church

By Courtney Tanner | April 16, 2021, 2:27 p.m.

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Latest from Mormon Land: COVID led to slowest church growth in 160 years; new group seeks to elect LDS women.

By David Noyce | April 15, 2021, 4:31 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Bill White, alongside his wife, Alane, talks about the central pivot watering system he purchased to help preserve the farmland surrounding the Trappist monastery in Huntsville on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. A deal has been reached to preserve most of the 1,800-acre agricultural operation that surrounds the monastery grounds in the rapidly subdividing Ogden Valley. White has agreed to donate much of the development rights to the land so that it remains as agricultural open space. White has invested heavily in the land's agricultural operations so that it would qualify for the $8.8 million in federal grants that are funding most of the deal.

Huntsville monastery has faded away, but preservation prayers have been answered for its farm fields

By Brian Maffly | April 16, 2021, 8:43 p.m.

(Photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) President Dallin H. Oaks, first counselor in the governing First Presidency, speaks at the priesthood session of General Conference on Saturday, April 3, 2021.

‘Mormon Land’: Lawyer to judge to apostle — a look at Dallin Oaks’ life and what he is really like

By The Salt Lake Tribune | April 14, 2021, 9:33 p.m.

(Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune)

They make up most of the adult LDS membership. So why do they feel like outsiders? Because they’re single.

By Peggy Fletcher Stack | April 10, 2021, 12:00 p.m.

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President Russell M. Nelson speaks at General Conference on Easter morning, Sunday, April 4, 2021.

Jana Riess: Overcoming LDS doubt is hard when you’ve never been given the tools

By Jana Riess | Religion News Service | April 9, 2021, 10:56 p.m.

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President Dallin H. Oaks speaks during the morning session of the189th Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City on Sunday April 7, 2019.

Latest from Mormon Land: Dallin Oaks’ ‘supreme’ sacrifice, and General Conference highs and lows

By David Noyce | April 8, 2021, 3:22 p.m.