Ezra Taft Benson, the only Mormon apostle ever to serve in a U.S. Cabinet, was known as a forceful foe of communism and a dedicated disciple of conservatism. Benson's most enduring religious legacy, ...

Two American universities with no ties to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have plans to endow professorships in Mormon studies, making them the first secular schools to establish ...

Well into the 1990s, academic and university presses published very few books related to the study of Mormonism. With the notable exception of the University of Illinois Press, which dominated the ...

Kayleigh Grant (center) responds to a question in seminary class. In the Collin County area, 1,100 students are enrolled in seminary. Photo by ANJA SCHLEIN - special contributor Angela Belnap teaches ...

As a wordsmith who labored over each paragraph, sentence and phrase, historian and writer Jan Shipps would be delighted to see her friends, colleagues and admirers mining their mental thesaurus for ...