Posts tagged Latter-day Saints
Young Mormons Aren’t Blue — Just A Little Less Red

(ANALYSIS) The most important piece of data analysis in that post came from the Nationscape survey — a weekly study conducted between 2019 and early 2021. The total sample size was over 477,000 respondents, which means there were nearly five thousand Latter-day Saints in the dataset.

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Russell M. Nelson And The Reinvention Of The Mormon Church’s Public Image

(ANALYSIS) Russell M. Nelson, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2018 until his death, was a dynamic reformer despite his age. He streamlined church operations, pushed for gender equity and firmly reaffirmed conservative doctrines. His most far-reaching change was rejecting the term “Mormon,” calling it a win for Satan and urging use of the church’s full name.

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2024 Election Post-Mortem: Latter-Day Saints

(ANALYSIS) I’ve written about this before, but it’s worth repeating here: Whenever I tweet a graph that contains a couple of the largest religious groups (evangelicals, Catholics, nonreligious), the first question that comes in the comments is inevitably, “Where are the Latter-day Saints?”

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