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News about Mormons, Mormonism, and the LDS Church |
General News |
LDS Church Wants to be Called 'Church of Jesus Christ' |
A New York Times article yesterday reported that the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will begin a new push to get
journalists, Church members and the public to refer to the Church by its
official name, or a newly suggested alternative, the "Church of Jesus
Christ." The effort is just the latest step in the Church's efforts to
discourage the familiar term "Mormon Church" and the first to make the
suggestion that the term "Church of Jesus Christ" be used instead of "LDS
Church." |
Church Going All-Out at Today's Press Conference |
The LDS Church's press conference today announcing the
release of its "Freedman's Bank" CD-ROM will be a major news event, if the
Church's plans are any indication. The press conference will be held
simultaneously in 13 different locations, including Washington DC's National
Press Club. Attending the conference in addition to LDS Church officials
will be US Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Senator Harry Reid, Representative Sheila
Jackson Lee of Texas and Reginald Washington, a genealogy specialist at the
National Archives. |
Church of Jesus Christ (LDS Church) Now Fifth Largest |
An analysis of data released Friday by the
National Council of Churches and other sources shows that the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now the fifth largest
denomination in the United States. The NCC data comes from its 2001
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, the most comprehensive
source of Church statistics. But the data for the Church of Jesus
Christ included in the book is dated December 31, 1999, and
subsequent growth appears to have pushed the Church from sixth place
to fifth. |
Local News |
Look at Harlem Block Discovers LDS Church Among Changes |
Six years after it first looked at a
then-drug-infested block of 129th Street in Harlem, the New York Times has
come back with a new three-part series on the block and how it has changed.
The series, which started Monday and ends today, discovered residents
bettering their lives and coping with work instead of welfare under recent
laws. It also found developers entering Harlem and this block, renovating
buildings and in the process pushing out long-time poor residents and
bringing in more affluent White and Hispanic residents. And, it found a
Church of Jesus Christ (LDS Church) on the block, trying to integrate its
Harlem members with the mostly White and Hispanic members in the rest of the
New York New York Stake. |
Brisbane Temple Court Case Settled; Groundbreaking in March |
The LDS Church and the Brisbane City
Council reached a compromise Wednesday that settled the Church's lawsuit
against the city and cleared the way for the Temple's groundbreaking
ceremony in March. The lawsuit challenged restrictions the city had placed
on the building, and the settlement removes some of those restrictions. |
Sports |
Despite Reduction, Clerical Error Costs Bower Four Games |
While the NCAA reduced the suspension penalty
for Wisconsin's LDS guard Ricky Bower, he will still miss a total of
four games because of the clerical error, along with 17 of the team's
practices. Bower, who was declared ineligible last week, suffered the
suspension because his high school failed to send transcripts to the
NCAA. In part, his return late last summer from an LDS mission
contributed to the ineligibility because Wisconsin had already done
its final check of athlete academic compliance before Bower committed
to play there. |
LDS High School Senior Excels in Three Sports |
Kim Eastin, a senior at Sunnyslope, plays incredible
defense in three sports. During the final soccer game of the season, she
stopped 21 shots in the second round 4A playoff game. She was voted the
Skyline's Defensive Player of the Year in volleyball. And now she's gearing
up for the softball season. |
Politics |
Moscow Ruling for Jehovah's Witnesses Strengthens Religious Freedom |
A Moscow judge Friday refused to liquidate the Jehovah's
Witnesses' Moscow community, giving the sect the victory in a two-year-long
court battle. The case has attracted international attention as a test of
Russia's controversial 1997 law that forced relatively recent denominations,
including the LDS Church, to undergo a complicated registration process. |
People |
Shaw Picks Up Olympic Interfaith Baton from Late LDS Colleague Barnes |
William Shaw is feeling the pressure of
performing for the 2002 Olympic Games. Shaw is not an athlete but
he's been handed a Herculean task with a very short timeline. Newly
appointed head of the Olympic Interfaith Roundtable, Shaw has to take
it to the next level. Alan Barnes, the original founder of the
Olympic Interfaith Roundtable, an ecumenical group focused on
fulfilling the religious needs of the athletes and visitors planning
to attend the 2002 Olympic Games, passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 2,
2001. |
LDS Man's Attempt to Row Accross Atlantic Swamped |
It's official! The "Brother of Jared" rowboat was
officially certified as an ocean crossing by the Ocean Rowing Society
headquartered in London last week shortly after Richard Jones of Utah
rowed the 30-foot boat through the Caicos Passage just south of the
Bahamas and clear of the Atlantic Ocean. Yet, the voyage officially
ended when a tow from a passing fishing vessel swamped the rowboat
causing Jones to abort his winter-long odyssey less than 400 miles
from his intended destination of the Florida mainland. |
Arts & Entertainment |
Mormon Writer and Academic Eugene England has Surgery for Brain Tumor |
Well-known Mormon writer and academic Eugene England was
hospitalized following surgery yesterday to remove two golf-ball sized cysts
from behind his eye and a portion of a brain tumor in the right front lobe
of his brain. England is a writer in residence at Utah Valley State College
and a retired BYU professor best known for his books "Dialogues with Myself"
and "Why the Church Is as True as the Gospel," and for co-founding the
academic journal "Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought." |
Maren Ord's Waiting |
19-year-old LDS musician Maren Ord's
first album, Waiting, was released yesterday, with newspaper articles
in her hometown of Edmonton cheering her as Canada's next pop star
and praising her practical yet sophisticated nature. But the album's
release starts the beginning of hard work for Ord as she promotes the
album in her attempt to launch a successful pop singing career. |
Business |
Nauvoo Changes Coming from Mormon Investors, Not Just Temple |
Despite the efforts of Nauvoo's city government to
forestall changes, Mormon investors and entrepreneurs are making that change
inevitable as they try to cash in on the LDS Church's new Nauvoo Temple.
Although the town has in place a moratorium on new buildings, investors are
looking at unincorporated land around the city, where its rules don't apply. |
Whither Iomega? |
Iomega is a high-tech company in the predominantly
Mormon community of Roy, Utah. As the largest publicly traded company
based in Utah, Iomega has brought technology jobs and money to many
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Iomega is
tracked on the Mormon Stock Index because its chairman, David J.Dunn,
is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ and because of the many
members that are employed there. |
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