Why do you think Africans are joining the LDS Church? Listen to one Kenyan stake president and his wife to offer their reasons and experience. Tell me what you think. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Do you have any religious objections to cremation? If not, what do you want your family to do with your ashes? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Here's my report of Mormonism in Kenya. Have you been there or lived there -- or any other African country. What are your thoughts? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

I'm writing about cremation vs burial for Memorial Day. Seems like more and more people of faith are choosing cremation. And church positions seems to have evolved, too. Which do you prefer and why? Does religion have anything to do with your decision?

Just finished covering my 65th consecutive LDS General Conference. Never missed, including my first one in April 1992, a month after giving birth to twin girls (one of whom was still in the hospital). What stood out to you this time? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Thanks to a new Utah law, the LDS Church is getting serious about background checks for volunteers. Do you think it will make a difference? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

If you have a simple way to discard your temple garments and help the Earth, would you do it? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

If porn watching is not an addiction, what is it? An LDS therapist has some answers. Hint: Something to do with free agency. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

"My wife was everything," LDS Apostle Jeffrey R. Holland said Saturday at Roots Tech, the giant family history conference in Salt Lake City. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

While Trump's administration wipes out any symbol of DEI (including the "gay" on the airplane Enola Gay), and Utah is nixing pride flags on public buildings, BYU is eliminating most rainbow imagery. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

The LDS Church just posted a Dieter Uchtdorf video, about being a refugee. The timing is, well, interesting. Here's my story linking Ucktdorf with Ukrainian refugees — specifically Utahns amnesia about their support for Zelensky and the country's refugees. Thoughts? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

LDS apostle Patrick Kearon spoke at an antiporn conference today, using his British command of language and soaring message. What did you think of it? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

The LDS Church revised its polygamy cartoons for children. The old message, "obey, even when it's hard." The new one, "polygamy was an exception to the divine rule of marriage, with one man, one woman." What do you think of the changes? Better? Worse? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Some faiths are pushing back against Donald Trump's license to ICE to invade sacred spaces to find immigrants. Not the LDS Church. What do you think? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

More on the LDS CHurch's guidelines on immigration, an issue that is heating up across the country. What do you like -- or not like -- about the church's approach? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

How many of you have loved Lion House rolls? What do you like about them? While the Lion House is closed for renovation, have you found them elsewhere? We are looking for people to quote, so please tell us your name and location. Thanks!

What should the LDS Church do to protect its immigrant members from profiling and bigotry from fellow Latter-day Saints? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

What is the First Presidency advising its stake presidents to do about undocumented immigrants in their midst? Food, clothing and medical help, OK. Housing, legal advice, out. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Amid national attacks on transgender rights, Laurie Lee Hall has written a compelling memoir about her journey through being a Mormon convert, bishop and stake president, and temple architect to being an excommunicated trans woman. Listen and learn. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Here's what one observer thinks about the LDS Church's efforts at compromise on same-sex marriage. Do you agree? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

If you want to get a clear-eyed look at the LDS tithing cases, listen to our reporter Tony Semerad, who has been following them closely. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Anyone here seen "American Primeval"? What did you think? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Today would have been the 100th birthday of Latter-day Saint Helmuth Hubener, the youngest dissident every executed (he was 17) in Nazi Germany for exposing Hitler's lies. Here's the story I wrote about him in October for the anniversary of his execution. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Here's a story about BYU that I have been researching for months. What do you think? Have you heard about the school's recent changes? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Explaining polygamy in Mormonism's past to adults is hard enough. But to kids? Almost impossible. What do you think of the church's effort? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Here's my stepdad story. St Joseph is a powerful role model for all fathers, not just stepdads. Kind, patient, compassionate, devoted to his wife and child. Badly needed in this era of misogyny. What do you think? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Looking for a stepdad who married a woman who was pregnant with another man's child. If you are that man, or know someone, drop the name here or private message me. Looking at St. Joseph as the patron saint of stepdads.

What draws Africans to the American-born LDS Church? How do they balance their own cultures with Mormonism? Listen to what scholar Laurie Maffly-Kipp has to say and tell me what you think? Have you lived, served or worked on that continent? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

What's it like dating across Utah's religious divide? What are the challenges? Rewards? Or is it impossible? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Thinking about food for yourself and your kin, while ignoring all those without? You might be a glutton. At least that's what most medieval Christians thought. Do you think it's a sin? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

A must read story by @juliejag.bsky.social about John Jones' tragic Nutty Putty death and the impact on his family and the rescuers. It's compelling and sad. Be prepared to weep. What sometimes happens to religious faith in the aftermath of tragedy? www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

The latest in the saga of excommunicated LDS writer/editor Lavina Fielding Anderson. What do you think about this latest development? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Do you agree with Patrick Hardy that new policies for trans members will "backfire" and will not protect women and girls, either? www.sltrib.com/opinion/comm...

If you’re a Latter-day Saint who drinks “dirty soda,” what draws you to it? Why do you think other Latter-day Saints are drawn to it? Post answers here or send me a private message.

Some excerpts from our interview with Atlantic's McKay Coppins about Donald Trump. I am curious about how LDS Trump voters view the president-elect and why they voted for him. Was it the economy or mostly because he's Republican and that's their party? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Another religion-themed film — Conclave — and another thoughtful analysis by Matthew Bowman that looks at religion in secular societies, not just Catholicism. Mormonism, take note. What do you think of his assessment, whether you've seen the film or not? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Lots of angles on Heretic. Here's one looking at the theme of resurrection and the ending. If you haven't seen it, don't read this piece. But if you have, tell me what you thought about the ending. screenrant.com/heretic-endi...

Here's our interview with Atlantic's prize LDS reporter, McKay Coppins. We asked him how he thought Latter-day Saints defended voting for someone as crass as Donald Trump. Listen to what he says: www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

If you aren't subscribing to the free Mormon Land newsletter, you should do it NOW. Here's the latest dust up at BYU. What is an anti-Trump BYU prof allowed to do? www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

I wrote this story last week before the election. Lots of fodder for discussion about Mormons in Nazi Germany and what it might say about LDS in the US today. www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

Hi everyone. I'm back and will be posting my Salt Lake Tribune stories here, plus additional thoughts about covering religion. I haven't been on here since last year. What's new? Whom should I follow? Where are the best convos on Mormonism?

Is "Barbieland," run by women where everything is perfect and every day is perfect, a type of Garden of Eden? Some folks think so and does it need a "hall fall" as Latter-day Saints believe? What do you think? https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2023/08/09/mormon-land-is-barbie-an-allegory/

Fascinating exploration of the "A" in LGBTQIA from an LDS perspective. What does it mean if you are taught that heterosexuality is the way of heaven? https://www.sltrib.com/religion/local/2023/08/06/being-asexual-an-lds-faith-that/