“The Book of Mormon Tops 2011 Tony Award Nominations with 14”
The Broadway musical The Book of Mormon earned 14 Tony award nominations, close to a record.
Category: Beliefs & practices
“‘Dancing Mitt’ cover shows the jig is now for Mormons”
A June 7, 2011, post at the Following Faith blog of The Salt Lake Tribune asks whether “all this national attention [is] good for Mormons?”
“Are all Mormons White and Prosperous?”
See a June 10, 2011, post at the Houston Chronicle‘s Sacred Duty blog that dispels certain myths about Mormonism.
“They’re here, they’re square, get used to it!”
Read a June 15, 2011, blog post at The Economist magazine on Mormons.
Catholics for Choice
Catholics for Choice was founded in 1973 to give a voice to those “who believe that the Catholic tradition supports a woman’s moral and legal right to follow her conscience” on matters of reproductive health.
“Also playing on Broadway: new Mormon ad”
Read about an LDS billboard ad in New York’s Times Square. The story ran June 20, 2011, in The Salt Lake Tribune.
Kevin Jennings
Kevin Jennings is the Executive Director of the Arcus Foundation, a leading global foundation advancing pressing social justice and conservation issues. Jennings served as the Assistant Deputy Secretary at the Department of Education from 2009-2011. He is the founder and former executive director of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, which has its headquarters in New York City. The […]
“As ‘Book of Mormon’ takes New York, city gets Mormon church ad campaign”
Read about the LDS billboard ad in Times Square on CNN’s Belief blog.
“High-profile Mormons in media, politics advance understanding of church”
Read a Feb. 7, 2011, story in The Washington Post about the American public’s increasing understanding of Mormonism as a result of Mormon public figures like Mitt Romney.