Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much controversy as polygamy, called plural or celestial marriage ...

Suspicion. Rebellion. Murder. The Netflix show American Primeval depicts how tensions between Mormon pioneers in Utah and the ...

This guest column is from Carol Lynn Pearson, author of “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy,” reacting to the 2025 curriculum for ...

Courtesy: Church History Library ... In the Manifesto, church president Wilford Woodruff renounces polygamy on behalf of the LDS, although this act is never described as a revelation.

Candidly explaining Mormonism’s complicated experience with polygamy to adults requires ... for a yearlong study of the global faith’s history and its Doctrine and Covenants book of scripture ...

Same-sex marriage isn’t the partisan issue it once was. Mormonism is growing around the world: One of every 15 Mormons is from Brazil and there are congregations in China as well. Now the Mormon ...

"The major American experiment with multiple wives in one marriage, occurred, after all, in the 19th century with the early Mormon Church," he points out. A discussion of polygamy, then ...

The state is home to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church, which accepted polygamy in its early history before banning it in 1890. It now excommunicates ...

Nothing in the history of our church continues ... published a book titled “The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy: Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men.” It was the result of a ...