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Murder Among the Mormons : What the Mormon Church Has Said About the Netflix Doc On 3/8/21 at 9:26 AM EST Murder Among the Mormons is streaming now on Netflix, and tells the story of forger Mark Hofmann, known for creating fake documents purporting to be from the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as well as a series of three bombings that killed two people. As a Vox review of the Netflix true crime series points out, [ Murder Among the Mormons] wants to portray Mormonism as an intimidating shadow that loomed over the events that unfolded in Salt Lake City in 1985, when the two deaths occurred and when the church was embroiled in controversy over the events surrounding the crime. ....
Jana Riess: Mormons, submit your COVID-19 stories Members of various Mormon traditions are being asked to upload their stories, photos and social media posts about what life was like during the pandemic. (File photo courtesy of Chad Mourino) Chad Mourino teaches new Latter-day Saint missionaries Mandarin remotely. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, prospective proselytizers are learning new languages and studying their religion via technology. By Jana Riess | Religion News Service | Feb. 10, 2021, 1:28 a.m. One of my callings at church is to be the “history specialist” in my ward, which basically means I compile a digital scrapbook of our congregation’s annual doings. It’s one of my favorite callings over the course of my life as a Latter-day Saint (and the only one I’ve ever actually trained for professionally). I love the folks in my ward and this gives me an excuse to ask them about their lives. ....
Khyati Joshi joins Religion News Service as new columnist Religion News Service (RNS), thanks to a grant from the Guru Krupa Foundation, is pleased to announce that Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi has joined RNS as a columnist covering Hindus and Hinduism. Her first column focuses on Vice President Kamala Harris’ “embodied diversity” and how Harris and second gentleman Douglas Emhoff offer a model for interfaith families. Joshi is a professor of education at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and a social science researcher whose work focuses on the intersections of race and religion in the United States. “I’m looking forward to writing about current events and emerging issues that illuminate how religion is lived in America. My writing will combine my scholarship with stories from the daily experiences and sensations of being neither White nor Christian in a country where both are normative,” said Professor Joshi ....