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Latest from Mormon Land: As the LDS Church keeps growing in Africa, evangelicals issue a warning
The Mormon Land newsletter is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly highlight reel of news in and about The Church of Jesus Christ ...
‘Mormon Land’: Amid all the ‘encouraging’ news about church growth, the ‘biggest concern’ hasn’t been solved
An independent expert explores the latest membership statistics for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in detail ...
Latest from Mormon Land: No new temples, a church apology and other (late) April Fools’ Day gags
The Mormon Land newsletter is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly highlight reel of news in and about The Church of Jesus Christ ...
The ‘most important LDS theologian of the 20th century’ and his anti-evolution fight over ‘pre-Adamites’
Latter-day Saint scholar Matthew Bowman discusses LDS prophet Joseph Fielding Smith, who led fights over evolution, the age ...
First Mormon temple in Jacksonville planned for Mandarin
Jacksonville is officially getting its own Mormon temple, with its first permit for construction officially approved in March ...
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The Brink of War
Surveyor General David Burr reported that Young told him federal surveyors "shall not be suffered to trespass" on Mormon lands. Through the mid-1850s, federal appointees returned East frustrated ...