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Mormon Church Admits Founder Joseph Smith Had Up To 40 Wives

In an essay posted without fanfare to its website in late October, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said for the first time that Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, had as many ...

Is Russell Nelson’s push to drop the ‘Mormon’ name working with Latter-day Saints and outsiders? Will it last?

In 2018, then-LDS Church President Russell Nelson called on everyone to stop most uses of the "Mormon" term. Nearly, eight ...
Religion News Service

Russell M. Nelson, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, pushed it away from ‘Mormon’ – a word that has courted controversy for 200 years

(The Conversation) — Russell M. Nelson pushed the church away from members’ longtime nickname, ‘Mormons’ – a term that has shaped other Americans’ view of the church for 200 years. Yet one of his ...