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An unabashed activist, the Rev. Tom Goldsmith battled for the climate, immigrants and LGBTQ individuals and against nukes and the LDS Church’s Main Street Plaza.
The Rev. Tom Goldsmith, longtime pastor at Salt Lake City's First Unitarian Church who became a minister of sorts to Utah's political left, is retiring.
Nelson’s headstone gets assist from temple renovation (Michael Stack | Special to The Tribune) This notation appears on the monument that will mark church President Russell M. Nelson's grave in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. May 10, 2021. It has become a common practice for a husband or wife to erect a headstone for the couple after only one has died — waiting to list the death date for the surviving spouse to be engraved later. Still, mourners strolling through the northwest quadrant of the historic Salt Lake City Cemetery might be startled to see a tall granite shaft emblazoned with the n...
‘Mormon Land’: Longtime left-leaning Unitarian pastor reflects on his 34-year ministry in a red state LDS Zion The Rev. Tom Goldsmith, who will deliver his farewell sermon Sunday, recalls his fight over the Main Street Plaza, his church providing sanctuary to a Honduran immigrant, and congregant Tim DeChristopher’s monkey-wrenching of a federal auction. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Rev. Tom Goldsmith shares a laugh Tuesday, May 11, 2021, during his final staff meeting outside on the lawn at the First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City. Goldsmith is retiring after 34 years at...
Tim DeChristopher Tim DeChristopher is a fossil fuel and prison abolition activist whose 2008 act of civil disobedience at a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction is chronicled in the film Bidder70. He is the founder of the Climate Disobediene Center. Articles By This Author