The Mormon Land newsletter is The Salt Lake Tribune’s weekly highlight reel of news in and about The Church of Jesus Christ ...

A Latter-day Saint psychologist discusses the viewing of pornography. Is it an addiction? Why do some men and women view it?

Since America’s founding, Christianity has been a “load-bearing wall” of democracy, but in recent decades it has given up that role — and that, argues writer and scholar Jonathan Rauch ...

all on land owned by the breakaway group, the Utah-based Apostolic United Brethren. The expectation was that the members’ ...

Residents of Pinesdale, afounded decades ago by fundamentalist Mormons, are suing for the land they say rightfully belongs to them; the breakaway church maintains it was never theirs.

The Mormon War The massacre came about in the context ... but the U.S. soon claimed the land after the Mexican-American War. The Compromise of 1850 made Utah a U.S. territory.

When a splinter group of Mormon fundamentalists founded the town ... their school and their church, all on land owned by the breakaway group, the Utah-based Apostolic United Brethren.