Hollywood’s Latest Hoodwink
Nationally syndicated radio host and best-selling author Michael Medved wrote up an opinion piece yesterday on USAToday’s website titled “Hollywood’s terrorists: Mormon, not Muslim”. Medved took to task those involved with the upcoming film September Dawn, a portrayal (albeit jaded and misrepresented one) of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Claiming they don’t have an axe to grind, the film’s producers show quite the opposite. Medved explains: These explorations reach no definitive conclusions on Brigham Young’s complicity in the massacre, but the movie leaves no doubt at all...
Read MoreA Modern Prophet Goes Global
The Economist is running a story titled “A modern prophet goes global” about the LDS Church’s international expansion. While mostly accurate and worthy of the reader’s attention, a couple parts are on shaky ground. One such example: Douglas Davies, a professor at Britain’s Durham University, says the Latter-day Saints are too centralised to be a “world religion” in the full sense: only if different continents and cultures develop their own styles of Mormon worship can the religion be likened to universal ones like Buddhism or Islam. While interesting to see this person’s...
Read MoreLatter-day Saints: A look at the Mormon church
The Boston Herald has published an Associated Press article titled “Latter-day Saints: A look at the Mormon church”, with a brief Q&A on some of the beliefs of the Church. The article is mostly accurate, with a few minor discrepancies. For example, in describing the Word of Wisdom the author states that “cold drinks with caffeine” are prohibited, when such is not the case. The article was prompted by the extra attention being received by the Church as a result of Mitt Romney’s expected presidential bid. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via...
Read MoreTwo LDS Leaders Called Some of Most Influential
Joseph Smith and Brigham Young have both been named in Atlantic Magazine’s top 100 most influential Americans. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post...
Read MoreWelcome to LDSNewsWatch
For about a year now, I have been collecting and tracking news articles about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (AKA the Mormon Church). I use various online resources to find and track these articles. Over the last year, I have found some very interesting things. As you can imagine, there have been plenty of articles on polygamy and in those articles there’s been plenty of intermingling of the LDS Church and various polygamist sects, which causes confusion. One headline read: “Mormon Leader Arrested on Child Sex Charges” and “Mormon Prophet Told Followers He’d Never...
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