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Why every Mormon should read “Saints”

By Jana Riess — September 4, 2018
Joseph drank coffee and fought with his brother William, and Emma angrily kicked Joseph's plural wives out of their house. The Church's new Mormon history "Saints" manages to be faith promoting while also keeping it real.

Gay Mormon characters step out of the shadows

By Kellie Moore — May 22, 2013
(RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America.'' A lot's changed since then, fueled by the church's role in Prop 8 and its efforts to build bridges to gays and lesbians.
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