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Benjamin E. Park explores what the rise of Mormonism reveals about America.

The rise of Mormonism reveals as much about America as it does about its most famous homegrown religion, writes Benjamin E. Park.

So what happens in an LDS temple? New guide offers first-timers real answers. Peeling away some of the mystery may calm anxieties, but will it lessen the spiritual experience? (File photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The bride's room in the Hartford Connecticut Temple.   | Feb. 6, 2021, 1:00 p.m. Temple rituals in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are as sacred as ever, but they recently have become far less secret. And the increased openness is coming not from critics or cranks but from the church itself. And just last month, the church added a...

So what happens in an LDS temple? New guide offers first-timers real answers. Peggy Fletcher Stack © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (File photo courtesy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) The bride's room in the Hartford Connecticut Temple. Temple rituals in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are as sacred as ever, but they recently have become far less secret. And the increased openness is coming not from critics or cranks but from the church itself. And just last month, the church added a section to its General Handbook, which spells out the s...

(Wikimedia Commons public domain image) Is it “communistic” to wish that children like these might be educated, have clean water to drink and enough food to eat, and be able to rise out of poverty?  That would seem to me a rather odd definition of the word.   At least by the time I was in graduate school, evangelical Protestant anti-Mormonism was clearly the single most obvious overt challenger to the claims of the Restoration and to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — as distinct, of course, from the usual tugs of worldly temptation and sheer burn-out.  It was the day ...