Stories tagged with: latter-day saints

• Mormon pageant in Utah draws 400 witnesses for Christ

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, June 28, 2019 (one month ago)

  

  Photo by Terri Johnson

  MANTI, Utah (BP) -- Four hundred evangelical witnesses, including Southern Baptists, encouraged one another as they sought to share the Gospel with Mormons who attended the "Mormon Miracle" pageant in Manti, Utah, during the pageant's 53rd and final year.

  The Mormon Miracle, with a cast of 900, was held the last two weekends in June, drawing 100,000 or more Mormons to the rural mountain town and its majestic Gothic/French Revival temple, located two hours southeast of Salt Lake City. Read More

• 'Mormon' name too common to go away, many say

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, August 20, 2018 (one year ago)

  

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  SALT LAKE CITY (BP) -- Mormon and LDS will likely remain widespread monikers for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, theologians and marketing insiders say, despite the church leader's directive for change.

  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Albert Mohler Jr. is among those to predict that the common names of the church will remain in popular use, days after church president Russell M. Nelson issued a public statement asking that everyone discontinue the monikers. Read More

• Polygamist's 28th son takes Gospel to sect community

  by Grace Thornton, posted Monday, December 11, 2017 (one year ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Short Creek Fellowship

  COLORADO CITY, Ariz. (BP) -- Brian Mackert was the 28th kid to a polygamist father with four wives and 31 children.

  Family tumult in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) prompted his mother to divorce -- leaving Mackert an angry teenager, even wanting to kill his father.

  Mackert didn’t feel he was one of the favored sons in the community, that “it didn't matter how much I tried to please the elders, I wouldn't be receiving a daughter of ... Read More