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Finally! Single Mormons have new opportunities, greater respect

Finally! Single Mormons have new opportunities, greater respect New leadership policies and a general shift in attitude could help invigorate single members, who have low activity rates in the LDS church. April 30, 2021 Photo by Helena Lopes/Unsplash/Creative Commons (RNS) I’ve been greatly encouraged in the past few weeks to see more (and more positive) attention to single members in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here’s hoping that “adult” will now be regarded as the most important word in the phrase “Young Single Adult” in Mormon circles. The church cannot afford to alienate its single members. According to Elder Gerrit Gong in this month’s General Conference, a majority of church members are now single in some capacity, whether that means they are widowed, divorced, separated or never married.

Jana Riess: Finally! Single Mormons have new opportunities, greater respect

Jana Riess: Finally! Single Latter-day Saints have new opportunities, greater respect New leadership policies and a general shift in attitude could help invigorate single members, who have low activity rates in the LDS church. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Work continues on the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during its renovation in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 2, 2021. By Jana Riess | Religion News Service   | April 30, 2021, 10:16 p.m. | Updated: May 2, 2021, 2:44 p.m. I’ve been greatly encouraged in the past few weeks to see more (and more positive) attention to single members in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Here’s hoping that “adult” will now be regarded as the most important word in the phrase “Young Single Adult” in Mormon circles.

They make up most of the adult LDS membership So why do they feel like outsiders? Because they re single

They make up most of the adult LDS membership. So why do they feel like outsiders? Because they’re single. Church leaders openly acknowledge this longtime trend, but single Latter-day Saints say additional shifts are needed from the pulpit and in the pews to make the faith more welcoming. (Illustration by Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune) Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism. For a church that preaches marriage, that promotes traditional gender roles and nuclear families, and that even organizes special congregations on the basis of marital status, the General Conference announcement that most members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are single seemed stunning.

For every race, language and people : 5 lessons from an increasingly international Latter-day Saint conference

For every race, language and people : 5 lessons from an increasingly international Latter-day Saint conference
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LDS General Conference: Speakers address politics, racism, cyberbullying, abortion, inclusion and more

| Updated: 1:02 a.m. Though most Latter-day Saints identify as Republicans, no political party, platform or individual candidate represents all the church’s positions, Dallin H. Oaks said on the final day of the 191st Annual General Conference. “We should never assert that a faithful Latter-day Saint cannot belong to a particular party or vote for a particular candidate,” said Oaks, first counselor in the governing First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “There are many political issues, and no party, platform or individual candidate can satisfy all personal preferences.” In his opening and closing remarks, President Russell M. Nelson acknowledged the pain and suffering of the global pandemic, praising the members’ “resilience and spiritual strength in the face of illness, loss and isolation.”

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