First Presidency

With average age of 80, Mormon church has never had older top leaders

By Peggy Fletcher Stack — March 5, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) For the first time in the history of the 185-year-old Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the average age of the 15 men who comprise the faith’s top leaders is 80.

Ex-Mormons aren’t ‘lazy or sinful,’ church leader Dieter Uchtdorf says

By Peggy Fletcher Stack — October 7, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) “To be perfectly frank,” Mormon leader Dieter Uchtdorf said, “there have been times when members or leaders in the church have simply made mistakes."
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