Latter-day

No matter which definition you prefer, no one would ever have referred to the Latter-day Saints as a cult.

Slate Articles Brian Palmer 2011

The worldwide Latter-day Saints, or LDS, church is a highly organized, centrally governed institution with a strong sense of collective identity.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1820 when a fourteen-year-old farm boy named Joseph Smith Jr. claimed to have seen a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ in a grove of trees near his home in upstate New York.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Such friction was evident in the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—a Mormon.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

At 1:00 on Sunday afternoon, the large parking lot that wraps around the Sandy West Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is nearly full.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

The third is a Mormon ward congregation in suburban Salt Lake City in which a few liberals—rare among Mormons—are swimming against the powerful tide of political conservatism among Latter-day Saints.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Deseret Management Corporation, a for-profit arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has agreed to sell its Bonneville International radio stations, including WTOP and stations in Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati to Hubbard Broadcasting Inc. for $505 million.

WTOP, other Bonneville stations sold Washington Post editors 2011

Shapiro said Brown first confessed the abuse to his bishop at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but prosecutor David Sturgill said the daughters first reported the abuse to police, writes the Deseret News, which is published by a company owned by the church.

Father of 5 Browns piano group pleads guilty to abusing daughters 2011

As second counselor in the governing First Presidency, Dieter F. Uchtdorf is one of the highest-ranking leaders in the hierarchy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to address the thorny topic of same-sex attraction.

Mormon Leader Weighs in on Same-Sex Attraction The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Bonneville is a for-profit subsidiary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, which has been a successful radio station operator for decades.

WTOP radio station to be sold to Minnesota broadcaster Paul Farhi 2011