How religious are Gen Z Mormons in the US?
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“Young Gen Z Mormons are attending church and youth activities, but many say they have been personally harmed by religion.” - RNS
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Young Gen Z Mormons are attending church and youth activities, but many say they have been personally harmed by religion.” - RNS
“Wilder viewed Christians as a specific challenge, he said, because growing up, he was taught that evangelicals practiced a ‘cheap faith;’ that they believed their lives didn’t necessarily need to reflect the faith they claimed to profess.” - C.Post
“Accusing his former religious group of fraud and “corporate greed,” a member of a prominent Mormon family now seeks the return of more than $5 million in tithes.” - C.Leaders
“This is not your average primer on Mormonism. It also isn’t what you might normally think of as an apologetic work against Mormonism. Instead, it seeks to lay out the theological perspective of the Mormon church in a systematic way.
“… a talk that President Dallin Oaks gave in Chicago to a group of youth. In his remarks, he said he felt prompted to teach them something of great importance: ‘I had an impression from the Spirit of the Lord to teach something to each of you…. And today, I saw quite a few of the deacons take the sacrament with their left hand.
Monday, “a ‘whistleblower’ who used to help manage the church’s investment portfolio released a series of documents alleging that the church has mismanaged more than $100 billion of charitable donations, including by channeling a portion of that money into for-profit investments on which it has failed to pay taxes.” - RNS
“While we still consider such a marriage to be a serious transgression, it will not be treated as apostasy for purposes of Church discipline. Instead, the immoral conduct in heterosexual or homosexual relationships will be treated in the same way.” - RNS
“When the messages come during the dark of night, Russell M. Nelson reaches for his lighted pen and takes dictation from the Lord.” - CNN
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