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A bastion of Mormonism rises in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains

By Adelle M. Banks

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Students and families gather outside Main Hall on the campus of Southern Virginia University for graduation May 3. The small school is 97 percent Mormon and located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Buena Vista, Va. Religion News Service photo courtesy Southern Virginia University.

BUENA VISTA, Va. -- Greg Larsen seems like your typical young Mormon: he was born and raised in Utah, served a two-year mission in San Antonio and is married -- at 23 -- to the woman he met as an undergrad at a Mormon university.

But the campus where he and his wife, Alyssa, met wasn't Brigham Young University in Utah. His newly minted degree comes from Southern Virginia University, a fledgling outpost of Mormonism in the heart of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

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The Church’s One (Moving) Foundation

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Episcopal Monks (RNS2-APRIL03) Robert Sevensky, the prior at Mount Calvary Monastery in Santa Barbara, Calif., looks out from the retreat's hilltop setting. For use with RNS-EPISCOPAL-MONKS, transmitted April 3, 2008.

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When Texas authorities raided a polygamous community belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in early April and placed more than 400 children in state care, the event brought the long-simmering issues of polygamous communities to a boil. Following calls from Sen. Harry Reid, D-Utah, for Southwestern states to crack down on what he called "the epidemic of lawlessness in polygamous communities," a federal prosecutor has been appointed to work on the issue with Utah, Arizona and Nevada, where other communities practice polygamy.

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