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One in six voters still think Obama’s a Muslim: Why?

Lauren Markoe | May 10, 2012

WASHINGTON (RNS) After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is wrongly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only 1 in 4 can correctly identify him as Protestant, according to a new poll. By Lauren Markoe.
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Sally Morrow | May 4, 2012

The Kansas City, Missouri Mormon temple welcomed visitors during their open house on April 28, 2012 before being formally dedicated on Sunday, May 6. The temple will serve some 45,000 Latter-day Saints in 126 congregations throughout Kansas, Missouri and small portions of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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Sally Morrow | May 4, 2012

Host Patsy Gerly introduces the new Kansas City, Missouri Mormon temple to a group of visitors just before entering the temple on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Following its formal dedication on Sunday, May 6, the temple will serve some 45,000 Latter-day Saints in 126 congregations throughout Kansas, Missouri and small portions of Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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Sally Morrow | May 4, 2012

The Salt Lake Temple, also known as the Mormon Temple, worship site of the Church of Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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How did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grow so fast? Mormons changed how they counted

Peggy Fletcher Stack / The Salt Lake Tribune | May 4, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) If you suspected the newly released U.S. Religion Census overstated the Mormons' growth rate, you were right. That’s because, this time around, the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints changed the way it reported its membership to the researchers. By Peggy Fletcher Stack.
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Sally Morrow | May 1, 2012

Map of evangelicals (blue) vs. mainline Protestants (yellow).
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Sally Morrow | Apr 27, 2012

Storehouse worker Matt Van loads boxes of peas for shipment Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, to one of the other five distribution centers. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has completed a new 570,000-square-foot Bishops' Central Storehouse in Salt Lake City on a nearly 36-acre site. The storehouse is central to the church’s welfare and humanitarian programs. The storehouse includes administrative offices, bulk/rack storage and refrigeration areas. The site will also support the church’s trucking fleet.
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Sally Morrow | Apr 11, 2012

Alfred Emanuel "Al" Smith (seen here with his wife) was an American statesman who was elected the 42nd Governor of New York three times, and was the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate in 1928.
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Romney’s faith: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Mark Silk | Apr 3, 2012

So Mitt Romney's taking questions from a crowd in Howard, Wisc., and this Ron Paul supporter manages to get the mic and raise the issue of racism in Mormonism by pointing to Moses 7:8 ("there was a blackness came upon all the children of Canaan, that they were despised among all people")--a pas...
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