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It's hard to imagine that just two years ago, the BYU men's basketball team was entering its first season in the Big 12, only ...
Jake Retzlaff verbally committed to transfer to Tulane for his final year following his withdrawal from BYU, which planned on ...
Mormon students agree when they enroll at BYU to live the school's Honor Code by staying in good standing with the church. If they formally leave the church before graduating, ...
The Brigham Young University Mormon Battalion Project website (mormonbattalion.byu.edu) is currently the only place where ...
The move is meant to keep Retzlaff on the field despite his stumbles at BYU. But it also represents a dramatic shift in the Jewish character of his schools for Retzlaff, who grew up attending a Reform ...
The good news: BYU is softening its harsh policies toward Mormon students who lose their faith while in college. However, the university seems to be claiming that its decision to do so was not ...
Several LDS-related documentaries and films will also be shown during the two-day event. “The idea for the symposium came about because of the increasing visibility and involvement in the media by ...
In 1971, Dallin H. Oaks, then BYU’s president and now a senior Mormon apostle, told students that “rules against beards and long hair are contemporary and pragmatic. ...
Bob Millet, a BYU religion professor who suggested the evangelical visitors to LDS officials, said the rapprochement helps Mormons, “a sample of the population that’s not well-understood and ...
On this week’s “Mormon Land” podcast, two of the activists behind this effort, Tristan Quist and Cole Stewart-Johnson, discuss why they are targeting the Smoot Building and how a name change ...
At BYU, more than 98% of the university identifies as Mormon. The rise in attacks on the LDS community reflects an increase in religious hate crimes overall, according to FBI data released in 2023.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Some of Utah's most influential Mormons, including Mitt Romney, Gov. Gary Herbert and the president of the Utah Jazz, lobbied to get the private, Mormon church-owned Brigham ...