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Latest from Mormon Land: New biography examines how Emma Smith felt ‘betrayed’ by Joseph’s polygamy David Noyce © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Emma Hale Smith, wife of church founder Joseph Smith. The Mormon Land newsletter is a weekly highlight reel of developments in and about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whether heralded in headlines, preached from the pulpit or buzzed about on the back benches. Want this free newsletter in your inbox? A second new book takes a look at Mormonism’s first couple...

The Daily Universe Tulips are shown blooming around a sign at Brigham Young University on April 29. Church leaders encouraged sisters to cultivate connections with others and use faith to navigate hardship in the opening session of the 2021 BYU Women’s Conference. (Addie Blacker) Church leaders encouraged sisters to cultivate connections with others and use faith to navigate hardships in the opening session of the 2021 BYU Women’s Conference. Invite others to belong Relief Society Presidency members Jean B. Bingham, Sharon Eubank and Reyna I. Aburto encouraged listeners to work on giv...

Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism. For years, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have been striving to make a difference in the world, and they’ve discovered that teaming up with the United Nations makes a world of difference. The growing partnership allows this relatively small global faith of 16.5 million members to bring food, shelter and immunizations to countries across the planet. All these seem laudable goals, but not all church members are happy about the U.N. ties. In...

They make up most of the adult LDS membership. So why do they feel like outsiders? Because they’re single. Church leaders openly acknowledge this longtime trend, but single Latter-day Saints say additional shifts are needed from the pulpit and in the pews to make the faith more welcoming. (Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism. For a church that preaches marriage, that promotes traditional gender roles and nuclear families, and t...

Oaks’ change of venue Dallin H. Oaks may have given up his shot at sitting on the nation’s highest bench in 1984, when he left as a Utah Supreme Court justice to become an apostle. “If he had wanted it, he could have been appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a position seen as a steppingstone to becoming a member of the U.S. Supreme Court,” biographer Richard Turley, told interviewer Kurt Manwaring. “His name ended up on lists of potential Supreme Court appointees. He let his friend Antonin Scalia take one such opportunity that might have been his, an...